We welcome your application for beamtime for a subset of beamlines for the period September 2021 to February 2022. 

The submission deadline for the HT21 call for proposals is CET 23:59, Tuesday 16 March 2021. 

The following beamlines and proposal types are available:

• BioMAX accept proposals of type Normal, BAG and Longterm (FragMAX)
• CoSAXS and DanMAX accept proposals of type Normal*
• The SPM-lab accept proposals of type Normal

* Please note that there is a limited amount of shifts available due to pandemic related delays.

Users are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposal with the beamline staff before submission.

For information about current and upcoming calls for proposals, please visit the Proposal calls site. There you will find submission instructions, information regarding proposal types and their respective templates. We also recommend you take a look at the available beamlines and techniques page.

Please note that due to Covid-19, MAX IV had to adjust the proposal cycle. We expect to be able to return to our regular proposal schedule after summer 2021. Since the pandemic is constantly changing, we urge users to check our page for MAX IV related Covid-19 information regularly. If you have any questions about upcoming beamtimes, please contact useroffice@maxiv.lu.se.

The possibility to apply for training and education beamtime at MAX IV has been integrated into the MAX IV DUO system.

This mode of beamtime brings the opportunity to use MAX IV for training purposes in the context of university courses, training workshop or other educative activity that could benefit from real hands-on beamtime at MAX IV. 

If you would like to apply for training and education beamtime, please complete, upload and submit your proposal through the DUO system.
Download the training and education beamtime proposal form here.

• Call open: 22 March 2021
• Call close: 12 April 2021
• Beamtime cycle: August 2021 until June 2022 (upon agreement with the corresponding beamline). 

Please find more details and tips on how to proceed are here. Feel free to contact Ana Labrador by email or phone +46 766 32 33 28, if you are interested or have further questions on such user and beamline cooperative experience.

We warmly invite you to attend a new series of scientific seminars, named SCIENTÍFika, organised by the User Office.

The SCIENTíFika initiative aims to share knowledge and stimulate discussions on synchrotron research and methods developed at MAX IV. A channel to learn more about our facility, strengthen collaborations, bring communities together and promote cooperation and interdisciplinarity.

Seminar practicalities:

• Mondays at 13:45 CET
• Virtual on Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/61349123545
• Program: 30 minutes of presentation followed by 15 minutes of discussion

15 March 2021
Multimodal and Coherent X-ray imaging techniques for thin-film solar cell research

Speaker: Prof Jens Wenzel Andreasen, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Host: Dr Innokenty Kantor, manager at DanMAX beamline

22 March 2021
Magnetic Materials and Topology

Speaker: Prof Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Host: Dr Craig Polley, scientist at BLOCH beamline

Keywords: topology, magnetic materials, angle-resolved photoemission 

29 March 2021

Speaker: Prof Vivi Vajda, Paleontology Department, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden
Host: Dr. Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss, scientist at Balder beamline 

12 April 2021
Operando observation of reversible oxygen migration and phase transitions in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films

Speaker: Dr Pavan Nukala, Center for Nanoscience and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India
Host: Dr Alexander Björling, scientist at NanoMAX beamline 

19 April 2021
Water uptake at low relative humidity onto atmospherically relevant nanoparticles studied with APXPS

Speaker: Dr Jack Lin, Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Dr Esko Kokkonen, manager at SPECIES beamline

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