Leading global meeting of the X-ray microscopy community will take place from August 30 to September 4 at CNPEM

The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), a Social Organization linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), has announced the selected projects from the sixth call for proposals to conduct scientific experiments on the beamlines — as the research stations of Sirius, the largest scientific infrastructure ever built in Brazil, are called.

Harry Westfahl Jr., the director of the Synchrotron Light National Laboratory (LNLS) at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), was one of the winners of the Wolfram Innovator Award 2025 presented to outstanding professionals who use innovative computational approaches in their fields.

Opening for a scientific initiation position at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory - Mogno beamline

The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) has opened applications for the 33rd edition of the Summer Scholarship Program (PBV), an initiative that, since 1992, has been training young undergraduate students from Latin America and the Caribbean. The program is aimed at undergraduate students in the areas of Exact and Earth Sciences, Engineering, Technology, Biological Sciences, and Health, and has already welcomed more than 450 students throughout its editions.

The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), an organization overseen by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), has opened its sixth regular call for research projects at Sirius, Brazil's fourth-generation synchrotron light source operated by the Synchrotron Light National Laboratory (LNLS).

Registration is officially open for the 35th RAU, the annual meeting of Brazilian Synchrotron Light National Laboratory (LNLS) users. Participants can register from July 22 to September 28, and abstracts may be submitted up to August 31. The meeting will be held on November 5 and 6 at Sirius, Latin America’s largest and most complex synchrotron light source, located on the CNPEM campus in Campinas, São Paulo. More details can be found at the official website for the event, along with step-by-step instructions for registration.

The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), with support from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), is offering a post-doctoral fellowship in X-ray tomography. The project is coordinated by the Synchrotron Light National Laboratory (LNLS), which is part of CNPEM and headed by researcher Nathaly Lopes Archilha.

The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), a non-profit organization supervised by Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) jointly inaugurated the China-Brazil Joint Laboratory for Synchrotron Science and Technology (CBJSync) on June 25, 2025. The initiative marks the beginning of in-person scientific exchange, with Chinese researchers working at the CNPEM campus in Campinas, São Paulo, and Brazilian researchers hosted at the IHEP campus in Beijing. and Brazilian researchers hosted at the IHEP campus in Beijing. Sponsored by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), MCTI and CAS, the CBJSync represents a significant milestone in the partnership between CNPEM and IHEP—a collaboration formalized in 2023 and supported by both CAS and MCTI.

Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) researcher, Ingrid Davi Barcelos, was announced winner of the 2025 Carolina Nemes Prize. The award, given annually by Brazilian Physical Society (SBF), recognizes outstanding trajectories of women scientists and actions in favor of promoting diversity in Physics.