This White Paper describes the scope of the Centre for Molecular Water Science (CMWS), a
collaborative, cross-disciplinary research initiative that shall use a highly dedicated laboratory
infrastructure, the most advanced experimental techniques, leading theory/simulation tools and forefront
photon facilities to answer the most important questions in molecular water science. The key scientific
challenges, preliminary work, objectives, methodologies and infrastructural needs for five major
scientific research areas (pillars) have been identified during the past three years by a group of more
than 140 scientists from more than 15 countries. The results are compiled and summarised in this
document.
Gerhard Grübel
CMWS Centre for Molecular Water Science White Paper