From September 4-6, the 2nd Annual Meeting of the HE EIC MHz Tomoscopy Project was held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The opening session on September 4th was attended by representatives from the Italian and Japanese embassies in Slovakia, the State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Education, the Director of the Visegrad Fund, and partners from CEITEC Brno and the POO TIK Space project.
The Deputy Head of Mission of the Italian Embassy in Slovakia, Elisa Polsinelli, participated yesterday in Bratislava in the presentation ceremony of the MHz – Tomoscopy project, financed through Horizon Europe, the European Union’s framework program for research and innovation. The project aims to develop the first multi-projection X-ray tomoscopy device with an unprecedented sampling speed, capable of observing rapid phenomena in 3D, which will be available at the European XFEL in Hamburg.
The project, led by Dr. Patrik Vagovic from CFEL in Hamburg, involves collaboration between research institutions from various countries, including Italy (with partner institutions such as the University of Ferrara and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics – INFN) and Slovakia (with its partner institution being Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice), as well as Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Representing Italy at the event was Eng. Antonio Bonucci, Head of the Industrial Liaison Office and In-kind Contribution at the European XFEL research infrastructure, who is involved in the industrial exploitation of the innovative system. Bonucci is part of the institute alongside a team of experts and researchers from over 40 countries. Italy is one of the 12 countries that contributes as a shareholder to the operation and development of the European XFEL.
During the event, numerous opportunities arising from the activation of the new device were presented, both in the scientific field (particularly for advanced studies in materials science and biology) and in high-tech industrial sectors (such as the aerospace industry and 2D material production), where it will enable the development of extremely innovative and cutting-edge applications.
Source: Ambasciata d’Italia Bratislava
