Diamond Light Source - Annual Review 2022/23

90 91 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 2 / 2 3 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 2 / 2 3 Industrial Liaison Industrial Liaison Office F ollowing on from the upheaval of the pandemic years, 2022 felt like a return to the stability of former times. As the world settles into the new normal way of working, our years of preparation in developing remote access, mail in data collection and a range of services for our clients enable us to react quickly to our clients’ changing needs. The industrial programme at Diamond continues to thrive with fully operational life and physical science programmes. Building on last year’s successes, we are again celebrating our busiest year to date. The increase in industrial engagement has also naturally led to expansion of the team and this year we welcome Isabel Barker to the industrial XChem team as a Research Technician. Izzy recently achieved her first class MSci (Hons) degree in Biochemistry at the University of Sussex and is bringing her skills in protein preparation and macromolecular crystallography to complement the XChem team and support delivery of industrial XChem campaigns. With travel becoming possible once again, our clients returned to Diamond to perform a wide range of experiments and our team were able to travel and attended conferences and events, meeting clients and friends both old and new. Highlights include members of the life sciences team attending Protein Structure Determination in Industry (PSDI) in Eindhoven and the Novalix conference in Munich along with the Fragments and MiBio conferences both taking place in Cambridge. Representing the physical science team, Anna Kroner gave an invited talk at the XAFS 2022 conference in Sydney, Australia. Rachel Freeman represented Diamond at the Big Science Business Forum in Granada, working with counterparts at other European research infrastructures to engage with industry. We are now looking forward to meeting our valued clients at wide range of events over the coming year. Diamond continues to support our industrial clients across a wide range of techniques and facilities with experiments ranging from routine analysis to complex bespoke solutions. Please do not hesitate to contact us on [email protected] to discuss your analytical needs, we’d be happy to help. Alex Dias and Ailsa Powell preparing pucks for XChem experiments.