Lightsources.org Poster Prizes
2024 marks the 20th Anniversary of Lightsources.org and, to celebrate this milestone, the collaboration of science communicators from light source facilities around the world is running two poster competitions during the SRI 2024 Conference.
All posters being presented at SRI 2024 were eligible to for one or both competitions. To enter a poster in these competitions, a prior registration was required.
SRI 2024 Science Poster Prize
This competition awarded prizes (1st, 2nd and 3rd) to the posters that score the highest against the following criteria:
• Scientific content and context
• Research progress and findings
• Visual appeal
• Presenter’s knowledge, ownership and enthusiasm
Christian Schroer (DESY) and Andy Dent (Diamond) judged the SRI 2024 Science Poster Prize.
Science Poster Prize Winners
The first prize went to Renan Ramalho Geraldes from Sirius at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) for the poster “The Loading Chamber of the SAPOTI Cryogenic Nanoprobe at the CARNAUBA Beamline at Sirius/LNLS”.
Judges comments, “Outstanding development of cryogenic stage and sample exchange for nano imaging which has wide applicability to other facilities.”
The second prize was given to Tang Li from DESY for the poster “Real-life challenges of single-beam ptychography vs. multi-beam ptychography”.
Judges comments, “Clever use of a mask and analysis to generate multi-beams to enable “parallel” ptychography to image larger areas.”
The third prize went to Jan Lukas Dresselhaus from the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI/DESY) for the poster with the title “Aberration corrected multilayer Laue lenses enable focusing to below 3 nanometres”.
Judges comments, “Further application of calculating and using an array of refractive phase correctors to improve the focus from MLL’s.”
Honourable mentions went to:
Amna Majid - Fault detection in Ion Pumps at the European XFEL
Judges comments, “Very nice presentation and useful use of AI for detection of ion-pump failures with wide applicability”
Dawit Hailu - ForwardGAN, an Unsupervised Forward Operator-based Generative Adversarial Network for solving Inverse Problems: The the Near-Field Phase Retrieval Problem
Judges comments, “Helpful work showing how a Generative Network can be used to solve the phase retrieval problem with limited data.”
Qais Saadeh- Optical Constants Determination for Soft X-ray/EUV Optics: Refined Optical Data for Rhodium
Judges comments, “Very information poster on new measurements on the Rh optical constants in VUV range which are highly relevant to the silicon manufacturing industry.”
Zeynep Reyhan Öztürk - TXPES – A new soft X-ray spectroscopy beamline at the SESAME synchrotron
Judges comments, “Poster showing the excellent design for the new Turkish beamline to be built at Sesame.”
SRI 2024 Science Communication Poster Prize in memory of Till Mundzeck
This competition awarded prizes (1st, 2nd and 3rd) to the posters that score the highest against the following criteria:
• Convincing presentation of the scientific content and context
• Innovative poster design and layout
• Presenter’s clarity and engagement with the audience
Cindy Lee from Berkeley Lab (ALS) and Miriam Arrell from PSI (SLS/SwissFEL) judged the SRI 2024 Science Communication Poster Prize.
This competition honours our late colleague Till Mundzeck, an inspiring science communicator and author of books, who worked within DESY’s PR Team in Hamburg. He was a highly valued member of the Lightsources.org collaboration (see photo with Till in the lightsources.org article 2022 in SRN (Fig.1)) and we are therefore dedicating the Lightsources.org Science Communication Prize 2024 to his memory. Till’s enthusiasm for good science and communication was infectious and we will continue in his spirit.
Science Communication Poster Prize Winners
Jan Lukas Dresselhaus (CUI/DESY) won the Science Communication Poster Prize (first prize).
The second prize was given to Anna Majid from European XFEL for the poster with the title “Fault detection in Ion Pumps at the European XFEL”.
The third prize went to David Meier from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) for his poster with the title “Offset finding of beamline parameters on the METRIXS beamline at BESSY II”.
Honourable mentions went to:
Sonal Ramesh Patel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
Rafael Celestre (Soleil)
Ibrahym Dourki (EuXFEL)
Emmanuel Aneke (Argonne)
Dawit Hailu (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)
Judges comments:
We are so pleased with the entries in the science communication contest. First, it takes courage to put yourself forward, particularly when communication has not been part of traditional academic training in sciences. Second, we saw a lot of good poster designs and heard a lot of great communication strategies in the presentations over the past three days. You all have a lot to be proud of.
The SRI 2024 Science Communication Poster Prize ('Public voting' by the conference participants) was awarded to Emmanuel Aneke (APS, Argonne) for the poster “Simulation and Measurement of Horizontal Emittance via Undulator High Harmonics at the APS-U”.
Additional information and further photos of the Poster prize winners: see DESY news (from 30 Aug. 2024).
All Poster Prizes were awarded by Lightsources.org. Lightsources.org is a collaboration of communicators from light source facilities around the world.For further information please contact Lightsources.org: webmaster@lightsources.org
SRI 2024 Poster Prize winners: (Left to Right) Renan Ramalho Geraldes, Amna Majid, David Meier, Tang Li and Jan Lukas Dresselhaus with Lightsources.org Project Manager Silvana Westbury. (Photo: European XFEL, Frank Poppe)
Emmanuel Aneke (APS), winner of SRI 2024 Science Communication Poster Prize ('Public voting'), together with the lightsources.org representative Silvana Westbury (right). (Photo: DESY)