Words from the Director Trevor Forsyth - summer greetings and the latest news from LINXS

LINXS Director Trevor Forsyth. Photo: Kennet Ruona.

We are happy to share Highlights of the LINXS  Annual Report 2022 with you. This summarises LINXS developments, Theme activities, some selected highlights and statistics related to our events and activities. The annual reporting has been an interesting process; it required us to review what actually happened and was achieved in 2022. Surprising at it may seem, it is easy to lose sight of volume of achievement in the flurry of day-to-day activity, and the report has made it clear how much LINXS has developed and grown during 2022, and the start of 2023. 

We are immensely proud of what has been achieved and very grateful to those without whom it would not have been possible: the LINXS community, its external Science Advisory Board (SAB), the Board, the Management and, crucially, the LINXS Staff. You have all played a huge part of getting LINXS to where it is at this moment.

As people turn their sights to the summer period, we have some final events which will be of interest to you: a LINXS Guest Webinar on 20 June with Inés C.B Martins (Copenhagen University) who will talk about crystalline and amorphous pharmaceuticals, and a LINXS Guest Seminar, also on 20 June, with Andrew Harrison, Director of Science at Extreme Light Infrastructures (ELI). On Wednesday 21st , just before Midsummer, we will open LINXS doors for a mingle and BBQ.

After summer, we will head straight into an exciting and very busy autumn at LINXS. The MAX IV/LINXS Spectroscopy Summer School will be held 21-25 Aug, and the Northern Lights on Food (NLF) Masterclass on 28 Aug-1 Sept. In September, 18-22, we have the IPDD PhD-course and Symposium on Fragment-base Lead Discovery. We also welcome back the NNSP/SwedNess school. There are many other events taking place at LINXS - so please keep an eye on the LINXS calendar. 

On our website, we share some interviews and material from environments and places of strong relevance to LINXS including LUNARC and LTH. You can also read about the recent Catalysis workshop, reflections from LINXS Science Day, and the New Materials XAS-school. In the coming months, we will share reflections from the Integrated Pharmacology and Drug Discovery (IPDD) Theme meeting, and the recent NLF IV conference. We will also share interviews with the leaders of the three new Themes: Cultural Heritage, Chemistry of Life, and Climate and Environment – all of which will start in September.

We want to wish you all a very nice and relaxing summer! We are looking forward to seeing all of you back here at LINXS in August!

Stay safe and take care!