Infrastructure for industrial development: instruments for material research through academia-industry collaboration

Infrastructure for industrial development: instruments for material research through academia-industry collaboration

Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:00 - 17:00

Successful research and technical development requires access to advanced research infrastructure, but industrial companies currently lack knowledge about the instruments and facilities that are available through collaboration between academia and industry. There is unexploited potential in the use of advanced instruments in industrial development projects.

Industry must be encouraged to use research infrastructure more, and one way is to ensure that information about research infrastructure is made available. Industrial companies need clear information about the instruments available in universities, the type of materials challenges each instrument is appropriate for, and how to gain access to each instrument.

On 8 December, Big Science Sweden and the ÅMA Ångström Materials Academy will be holding a seminar on research infrastructure for industrial development. Representatives from selected research infrastructures and industrial companies are invited to share information and discuss the potential of different instruments, including how they can be used in technical development.

Programme

14:00 Welcome and introduction

14.05 Centre for Photon Science and Centre for Neutron Scattering: Adrian Rennie and Martin Sahlberg 

14.25 Myfab: Stefan Nygren

14.45 X-ray Laboratory: Mikael Ottosson

15:05 Break

15:15 FREIA Laboratory: Tord Ekelöf

15:35 Tandem laboratory: Daniel Primetzhofer

15.55 Summary and conclusion

16.15-17:00 One-to-one meetings.

Event organisers

Big Science Sweden – the official Swedish Industrial Liaison Office (ILO), putting big research facilities around the world in touch with Swedish suppliers.

Ångström Materials Academy (ÅMA) at Uppsala University – a platform for collaboration between Uppsala University and industrial companies for research and development in material sciences.

Contact: Anna Franzén and Ernesto Gutiérrez, UU Innovation, Fredrik Engelmark Big Science Sweden