FELs of Europe Award and Kai-Siegbahn-Prize at the SRI 2024

At the recently held Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation Conference (SRI2024) in Hamburg two FEL scientists were decorated with awards:
Jumpei Yamada of Osaka University, Japan, received the “FELs of Europe Award on Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs” for his work on “Ultimate focusing of X-ray free-electron laser down to 7×7 nm spot for achieving 1022 W/cm2 intensity”. The award winning paper was published in Nature Photonics. This Award is sponsored by FELs of Europe and is awarded in recognition of recent work for innovation and scientific excellence in the area of free electron laser science and applications in its broadest sense by young scientists. The award is accompanied by a certificate, and a monetary sum of €1000.
Jumpei Yamada studied at Osaka University and received his PhD there in 2019. For three years, until 2022, he worked at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in the XFEL beamline development team, after which he was appointed as assistant professor at Osaka University.

In addition, the “Kai-Siegbahn-Prize 2024” was awarded to Agostino Marinello from SLAC, USA, for his “pioneering development of attosecond X-ray free electron lasers and their application to ultrafast X-ray science at the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC”. This prize was established in 2009 in honor of Kai Siegbahn, the physics Nobel Prize winner 1981.