The year 2016 had a good start when the photon science community gave rise to a record with more than 1000 partici-pants at the combined European XFEL – DESY Photon Science Users’ Meeting for the first time. This event demon-strates the increasing attractiveness of Photon Science in Hamburg. DESY’s tender to the hard X-ray synchrotron radiation source PETRA III was operating roughly 4000 h in 2016 after a longer winter shutdown needed for the installation of frontend components into the ring tunnel related to the PETRA III extension project. Many exciting scientific results could be achieved at PETRA III in 2016 with some of them highlighted in this brochure.
Annual Report Highlights Photon Science