ESRF
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
The ESRF is the world's brightest synchrotron light source and a centre of excellence for fundamental and innovation-driven research in condensed and living matter science. Located in Grenoble, France, the European Synchrotron owes its success to the international cooperation of 19 partner countries.
The ESRF is a user facility. Each year, more than 9000 scientists from around the world come to Grenoble, to use the ESRF's laboratories, its beamlines, each equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Its working language is English and its staff originate from about 40 countries around the world.
The role of ESRF in Nextstep
ESRF is cordinator of the Nexstep Doctoral Programme. That means it has an organisational role among the five partner research institutes of the programme. The programme office is located at the ESRF, and job applications for all partners will be published by the ESRF and related by the other partners. ESRF will host 15 out of 36 PhD students.
Principal Investigators
Our dedicated team
Dr Ed MITCHELL
Head of Business Development and staff scientist
Ed is responsible for the ESRF's commercial and industrial programmes, and has over 20 years’ experience in protein crystallography and using synchrotron radiation. He has worked in a variety of roles at the ESRF, including project manager for the Partnership for Structural Biology and for the preparation of the ESRF Upgrade Programme, and has led the construction of three synchrotron X-ray stations.
Dr Gary ADMANS
Business Development Engineer for European grant applications support
Gary has worked in science communication at the ESRF for nearly two decades. He graduated as a biological chemist (Kent, UK) and studied for PhD in synthetic organic chemistry (Exeter, UK). His research included projects with companies such as GSK, Dow Corning and Unilever.