AUPP-RESTART: TAS General A Post Doctoral Position for an African Trainee Accelerator Scientist (TAS) is available hosted at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and funded within the Africa-UK Physics Partnership (AUPP) Collaborative Projects funding opportunity entitled REsilience through Synchrotron Techniques for African Research & Technology (RESTART). The context is to boost African skills towards the… Read More Advertising for a Trainee Accelerator Physicist for Africa

Read about BioPhysics in South Africa South Africa has some excellent researchers in various branches of biophysics. However, despite lofty documents put out by the Department of Science and Technology like the Bioeconomy Strategy and the SARIR (South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap), South Africa remains woefully under-invested in biophysics and structural biology. By TJAART KRUGER,… Read More Daily Maverick: Op-Ed: South Africa needs more investment in biophysics and structural biology

Lightsources.org welcomed over 500 attendees to a live virtual symposium to mark the 75th Anniversary of the first direct observation of synchrotron light in a laboratory. The event took place on the 28th April 2022. The recording below archives this amazing event. AfLS highly recommends viewing these recordings to get the best overview of the… Read More A bonanza of everything “light sources” in one place !

The call is out to all Africans, Diaporeans, Friends of Africa to send in Letters of Interest. This LoI will indicate whay you wnat to see in a future African Light Source. What Science should it do ? What Technology should be there for the Accelerator, the Beamlines, the Instruments, the support infrastructure What Industry… Read More Launching the AfLS-CDR call for Letters of Interest

Title:  The African Light Source: Towards a brighter future Speaker:  Prof Simon Connell – University of Johannesburg / Chairperson – African Light Source Foundation SAIP Webinar 20 November 2020: at 13:00HRS South Africa Time https://zoom.us/j/95823647563?pwd=TWJHZ0NWWUNYTHY0RXBQNEk5ZWZsUT09 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2772327832984294&id=1660099704207118 Recording: Download Slides Abstract: The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is one of the most transformative large-scale infrastructures for knowledge and innovation based sustainable socioeconomic… Read More SAIP Webinar: The African Light Source: Towards a brighter future

Today, the 13 October, two students – Fortune Mokoena and Alicia Potgieter – one a PhD, the other an MSc, left Africa to undergo deep training and perform research in engineering aspects of modern advanced light sources. They will arrive tomorrow morning at the ESRF in Grenoble, France. They follow closely on the heels of… Read More Deep training and research by Postgrads and Postdocs from Africa at the ESRF