MAX IV facility handed over to Lund University

The MAX IV facility, set to become the brightest x-ray source in the world in 2016, has now been handed over to Lund University by the building contractor. Covering 50 000 square metres, the facility consists of a linear accelerator, storage rings, an office building and outdoor environments. It will now become the workplace for MAX IV's 240 members of staff; in future the facility will be able to receive approximately 2500 researchers from all over the world. The staff will now work on the final installations and getting the accelerator and the first beamlines into operation; the facility will be officially inaugurated on 21 June 2016. The handover took place on Monday during a ceremony in which Ulrika Hallengren, CEO of building contractor Fastighets AB ML4, gave a symbolic key to the facility to Torbjörn von Schantz, vice-chancellor of Lund University, and to the director of the MAX IV Laboratory, Christoph Quitmann. "As of now, it is our responsibility to fill these prize-winning premises with activity and cutting-edge research within physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and materials science. We will ensure that we deliver world-leading research for a long time to come", said Torbjörn von Schantz.