Words from the Director Trevor Forsyth
There has been a lot of activity at LINXS recently. The first AMBER recruitment call has just gone out – this will result in the recruitment of 16 3-year postdoctoral positions in various areas of biological imaging. These positions will be held at Lund, EMBL, IMOL (Poland), Leicester University, and ESS. Please feel free to pass on the links to this call to interested people - they are extremely attractive positions in exciting new areas of science!
In addition, the call for new LINXS themes has just closed. There have been several strong stage 1 applications; these will be prioritised by the LINXS Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) before successful applications are invited to proceed to the second stage of the process.
LINXS welcomes two new members in its management team: Anna Stradner (Lund University Department of Chemistry) is the new Vice-Director for Soft Matter, replacing Marie Skepö. Emanuel Larsson from the Lund University Medical Faculty is the new co-director for Life Sciences, replacing Oxana Klementieva. We are enormously grateful to Marie and to Oxana for their great contributions over the years.
The new three-year mandate period of the LINXS Board started in January under the leadership of Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen. We are extremely grateful to the previous Board Chair, Anders Tunlid, for his dedicated and professional work on behalf of LINXS. We also thank Heiner Linke, Kajsa M. Paulsson, and Ulf Olsson for their work as part of the Board. They have all played key roles in helping LINXS get to where it now is - well positioned nationally and internationally, with a vibrant set of thematic activities, strong cohorts of young researchers in all the major focus areas, and perched for a crucially important move on to the Science Village by the end of the year!
In January, we welcomed the start of an external review to LINXS, assigned to assess the value of the stakeholder investments in LINXS, and its progress and effectiveness against its goals and its national and international remit. The evaluation process has been extremely rigorous, and we are glad to welcome it for its constructive and progressive scrutiny of the role that LINXS plays in exploiting the large-scale infrastructures in Sweden and to which Sweden subscribes.
The next few months will be very busy. Please be sure to register early for our forthcoming events. There are Young Researchers’ Symposia on life sciences and on chemistry of life respectively, as well as Theme activities within IPDD, Heritage Science, Northern Lights on Food, Environment and Climate, and Chemistry of Life. Also of note is the closing conference of the New Materials theme, which is organised during LINXS Science Day in April.
We are looking forward to seeing you at LINXS during the coming months!
LINXS Director Trevor Forsyth. Photo: Kennet Ruona.