From left to right, Salvador Ferrer - scientific advisor of the ALBA director -, Joan Gómez Pallarés - Director General for Research (Catalan gov.) -, Caterina Biscari - director of ALBA -, Gonzalo Arévalo - General Director for Research Planning (Spanish gov.) -, Esther Morales - General Secretary for Research and Universities (Catalan gov.) -, Edgar Aigner - head of Administration at ALBA -, Raquel Yotti - General Secretary for Research (Spanish gov.) -, José Ignacio Doncel - General Deputy Director of the ICTS (Spanish gov.) -, Ramon Pascual - Honorary president of ALBA - and Francis Pérez - head of Accelerators at ALBA -.
Cerdanyola del Vallès, 7 October 2021. Today a working meeting took place with different members of the Governing Council of the ALBA Synchrotron. On behalf of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the General Secretary for Research, Raquel Yotti, the General Director for Research Planning, Gonzalo Arévalo, and the General Deputy Director of the ICTS, José Ignacio Doncel participated. On behalf of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the General Secretary for Research and Universities, Esther Morales, and the Director General for Research, Joan Gómez Pallarés, attended.
In a first session, the director of the ALBA Synchrotron, Caterina Biscari, updated the status of ALBA, its latest scientific achievements as well as its future plans and, specifically, the ALBA II upgrade project.
Later on, they could visit ALBA's experimental hall and check the evolution of the new NOTOS and LOREA beamlines, which will soon host official experiments.
During the working meeting where Caterina Biscari updated the status of ALBA, its latest scientific achievements and its future plans.
