Prof Roldán speaks at Parliamentary Breakfast
FHI Director Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya took part in a parliamentary breakfast at the German Parliamentary Society on 13 May, where she presented a National Strategy for the Further Development of Technically Accelerated Light Sources together with representatives of the Helmholtz Association.
![Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, reported from research practice.](/1062382/original-1653492933.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MjQ2LCJvYmpfaWQiOjEwNjIzODJ9--796c359d596f5c1b0a5d91ef2cabb539040b41b1)
Prof. Roldán presented new results from her catalysis research, in which she uses synchrotron radiation to analyse catalysts that produce hydrogen with sunlight and can thus pave the way for a climate-neutral economy.
The focus was on the various possibilities and opportunities of free-electron lasers (FEL) with coherent radiation, the synchrotron accelerator BESSY in Adlershof with its focus on soft X-rays and the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) with its focus on the hard X-ray spectrum.
This strategy will make it possible to continue developing new medicines quickly in the future or to pave the way for a climate-neutral economy, to test new materials and to advance digitisation. With the construction of BESSY III, HZB is planning a new soft X-ray source for energy and materials research, which is scheduled to go into operation in the middle of the next decade.