Majed Chergui wins an ERC advanced grant
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The ERC research will employ X-Ray helical dichroism to reveal chiral centers with atomic specificity in biologically-relevant moelcules
Majed Chergui, founder of the LACUS centre at EPFL, has recently won an ERC Advanced Grant, which aims at implementing steady-state and time-resolved X-ray circular dichroism to resolve molecular structures and their evolution with element specificity. The research will in addition further develop new tools using the orbital angular momentum of X-Ray light to perform helical dichroism studies. The research will be based at the Elettra synchrotron radiation center and FERMI free electron laser (Italy).