European Magnetic Field Laboratory Teaming for Excellence with Regional Partner Facilities
Wilfried Reincke Radboud University Nijmegen Neth-ER seminar - 28 May 2013
High Field Magnet Laboratory (Nijmegen)
Scales of magnetic fields The smallest magnetic fields
brain pulses
Earth magnetic field
10-13 T
0.00005 T
"Technical fields"
loudspeakers, ...
Fields commercially available
superconducting 21T
Unique research fields
HFML (FR, USA, Japan)
Pulsed research fields (ms) Highest man made fields (µs) Neutronstars in the kosmos
1T
30-45T
50-100T Explosive, destructive
1000T 108 T
Science in high magnetic fields Everything is magnetic Magnetic fields change the state of all matter through Lorentz force and spin splitting in a reversible manner. Strongly correlated Electron systems
Soft matter
Nanostructures and semiconductors
PL Intensity (arb. units)
21 T
1.3185
Nobelprizes based on research using (high) magnetic fields: 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1994, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1961, 1955, 1952, 1944, 1939, ...
1.3190
1.3195
Photon energy (eV)
19 T 1.3200
Nobelprize Physics 2010: Graphene Andre Geim: worked at RU from 1994 to 2001, since Februari 2010 extraordinary Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen Konstantin Novoselov: Did his PhD at RU in 2004 (promotor: Jan Kees Maan) Research 2004 and 2010: Published 76 articles on graphene, of which 26 articles (= 34%) with RU-researchers Graphene research (Geim & Novoselov) at EMFL Nijmegen: Euro 0,5 mln/year Horizon2020: EMFL Nijmegen participates in Flagship Graphene
Global players in high magnetic fields EMFL
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Europe Nijmegen (DC) Grenoble (DC) Toulouse (pulsed) Dresden (pulsed)
USA Tallahassee (DC) Los Alamos (pulsed)
Japan Tsukuba (DC) Sendai (DC) Tokyo (pulsed)
China Hefei (DC) (First magnet operation 2012) Wuhan (pulsed)
Need for a European laboratory (EMFL) •
High Magnetic fields are so important for science, so costly and technologically so challenging that they require a European effort.
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A single (multisite) European laboratory increases the visibility and is able to face the global competition (US, Japan and China).
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The laboratories in France, Germany and the Netherlands (HFML-Nijmegen) together will form the EMFL as a Distributed Research Infrastructure
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They have the necessary size, national support, have already been collaborating for a long time (EuroMagNET I and II), have a strong user base and the right regional spread, to grow into a globally competive facility
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EMFL is on the ESFRI-list of critical European Research Infrastructures
EMFL is multisite laboratory under a single direction made of:
Pulsed fields
Static fields
HLD Dresden LNCMI Toulouse
LNCMI Grenoble HFML Nijmegen
− selection procedure − user committee − networking activities
HFML HLD LNCMI-G LNCMI-T
− coordinates magnet technology − coordinates new experiments − represents Europe in HMF − acts as a single laboratory
Users Past four years EMFL facilities together granted access to 1094 users proposals from 37 countries in and outside Europe (~50% outside founding countries).
Steps to be taken for EMFL • Create EMFL-foundation as legal entity; set up EMFL organisation • Develop technology roadmap and science roadmap • Develop long term investment plan (as Tallahassee-USA has) •`Foreign policy`, relation NHMFL (USA) and China (Hefei / Wuhan) • Corporate image and policies further to be developed • Find and Include new European partners (investment and running costs) • Develop membership models and forms of contribution • Acquire funding for next generation magnets
Strategy to realise these goals: Teaming with Regional Partner Facilities Regional Partner Facilities (H2020 SP): A Regional Partner Facility (RPF) is a research infrastructure of national or regional importance in terms of socio-economic returns, training and attracting researchers and technicians, that is recognised as a partner to a pan-European ESFRI or other world-class research infrastructure. The quality of the RPF including the level of its scientific service, management and access policy must meet the same standards required for pan-European research infrastructures.
Requirements for RPF: • National / regional autorities are planning to use Structural Funds • ESFRI Strategic Working Groups will evaluate proposals For EMFL: Smaller facilities with commercially available magnets, regional importance and userbase; (potential for) excellence.
RI and Structural Funds: S3 European Commission: • SMART SPECIALISATION EX-ANTE CONDITIONALITY: ….. a multi-annual plan for budgeting and prioritisation of investments linked to EU research infrastructure priorities (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures -ESFRI). • ESFRI infrastructures thus, can play a significant role in the Smart Specialisation process of the countries and regions that will be hosting them, provided that the appropriate steps are taken to properly embed them in an integrated innovation strategy, thereby creating growth and jobs • By the same token, Regional Partner Facilities can also play a very constructive role in the same process. • Next ESFRI strategic roadmap: regional issues included as integrated strategy
New ESFRI-roadmap: Regional Issues strategy Distributed pan-European RI: coordinating center and nodes have national funding commitments and build legal entity
Node MS 1
Node MS 2
Coordinating Center
Node AC 1
Node MS 3
ESFRI: identification of top quality RPF MS/ AC Node MS 1
Node MS 2 Proposal for new node or RPF?
ESFRI quality
Coordinating Center
Funding? Yes
Node AC 1
Node MS 3
SWG Funding commitment, Legal entity not entered
RPF Node
Funding commitment, Legal entity entered
EMFL-Strategy for Teaming with RPF • Identify RPF that serve as national or regional facility • RPF can become member of EMFL: – Agreement with Estonia in progress – Future: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc. • Community-building via Integrated Infrastructures Initiative (I3): – TransNational Access (TNA) – (magnethours) – Joint Research Activities (JRA) – Networking activities (staff exchanges, workshops, joint summerschools, secondments, expert visits, short-term on-site or virtual trainings, dissemination and outreach activities etc) -> • Stimulate partners to get local authorities to include RPF in RIS3: explain the impact of the RI on the regional economy. Possible funding will depend on the regional priorities.
Mapping of regions' and MS intentions in terms of smart specialisation fields has started:
Benefits for EMFL •
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User community: – RPF pay EMFL membership fee – Members contribute to the running EMFL facilities and in return will have guaranteed access – EMFL will develop new experimental techniques for members and give additional user support when running their experiments – Higher magnetic fields needed: RPF-users -> EMFL – Higher magnetic fields not needed: EMFL-applicants -> RPF Strategic Positioning: – Strengthen position as crucial EU-infrastructure (ESFRI) – Strengthen world wide competitiveness – Visibility as the centre of a European network of scienctific excellence. Consortia for possible H2020 projects: – Excellent Science: e.g. Infra, FEST, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions. (H2020 SP: “Synergies with MC-actions will be encouraged”). – Industrial Leadership – Societal Challenges
Questions?
Finances and size EMFL EMFL in numbers
2012
Number of staff
240
Replacement value
200M€
Yearly running costs
22M€
No. Projects/year
250
Guest vistors/y
400
Publication/y
150
New investments since ESFRI roadmap 2008 Dresden (20M€ doubling installation) Nijmegen (34M€, 45T hybrid, extra running costs) Toulouse (doubling building)
Exploitation • Running costs covered by national (German, French and Dutch) funds. • EU access programs 1.2M€/y (till 2013), out of 22M€/y, while 50% external use • New partners needed to cover this difference and the EMFL (AISBL) is a good vehicle.
Investments • Current investments financed nationally • New investments (upgrade installations, 30T high Tc, 50T hybrid, ..) require multinational effort