Elettra Highlights 2024–2025 186 Other News Events Between January and June 2025, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste carried out a number of initiatives reflecting its multifaceted identity as a research infrastructure — a place where science, innovation, and culture intersect. The year began with the inauguration of the new shared Reception/info point for Elettra and Area Science Park on the Basovizza Campus (1). The 250-squaremetre area, located in the T-1 building, centralises access and security services while improving the efficiency of daily operations. This new space and entrance to Elettra's facilities presented by Prof. Alfonso Franciosi, President and CEO of Elettra, and Dr. Anna Sirica, Director General of Area Science Park, reflect the strong and ongoing collaboration between the two institutions in managing shared facilities and services for the scientific community. Elettra’s international profile continued to grow through the achievements of its staff and networks. In January, Claudio Masciovecchio, Manager for time-resolved experimental techniques, was elected Fellow of OPTICA for his contributions to ultraviolet and X-ray scattering instrumentation and nonlinear spectroscopy. In June, Silvia Onesti, Head of Structural Biology, was elected Member of the Academia Europaea for her outstanding research, joining a prestigious network that promotes scientific excellence and dialogue across Europe (2). Gender equality and education remained central to Elettra’s mission. On 11 February, the centre marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the SHE SCIENCE initiative, organised in collaboration with SHARPER – European Researchers’ Night. A group of researchers visited high schools in Trieste to share their experiences in STEM careers (3), while university students joined guided tours and discussions at Elettra. The initiative is part of the organisation’s Gender Equality Plan, designed to remove systemic barriers and promote balanced participation in scientific professions. Art and science came together through the Before Second Zero residency, held at Elettra and FERMI in April 2025. Composer Christian Russano (4), together with Marco Bellafiore and Francesca Remigi, spent two days within the facilities, recording sounds and ambient noise, observing experiments, and engaging with researchers. The experience provided the creative material for and album, that will be produced by the end of 2025 in the studio, which incorporated the recorded sounds and the atmosphere of the laboratories into original compositions. The project transformed the mechanical and acoustic landscape of the accelerators into musical texture, offering an artistic interpretation of the research conducted at Elettra and FERMI. 3 1 4 2
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