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On March 26, 2024, Patrick Steinegger leads visitors of the ETH Zürich Public Tours 2024  through the proton accelerator facility of PSI.

Patrick Steinegger on the 29th episode of NucTalk

Jelena Petrović is a visiting scientist working on the separation and purification of various radionuclides from irradiated targets and radioactive waste. Additionally, she is exploring the utilization of novel radionuclides for diverse applications, including but not limited to medical applications (⁴⁴Ti/⁴⁴Sc), geological studies (³²Si), astrophysical investigations (²⁶Al, ^180mTa), nuclear waste partitioning (^110mAg), and catalytic processes (⁶⁵Zn).

Pan Xiaohan is a visiting PhD student, who works on the removal of radionuclides (^110mAg, ¹²⁹I/¹³¹I) from contaminated water.

Vladislav Zobnin is a new Phd student, who has recently joined the group of Isotope and Target Chemistry. He will work on the “PASCAL” project (EU), under the supervision of Dr. Jörg Neuhausen.

Noemi Cerboni and Michael Hofstetter managed to keep up the international scientific prestige of LRC at the Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Nuklearchemie 2022, with Noemi winning the Best Poster Award and Mike the Second Best Poster Award. Congrats, guys, LRC is proud of you!

The Isotope and Target Chemistry group of the Paul Scherrer Institut had the pleasure to organize and host the 30^th Conference of the International Nuclear Target Development Society (INTDS 2022) at PSI from 25^th to 30^th September 2022.

The conference was a great success! 80 participants, representing scientific institutions of 14 different countries and 4 continents, met in person, discussed and presented their newest results on target preparation methods, advances in target characterization, production of targets for medical applications, gas targets, stripper films, high-power target technology and much more. We are happy to emphasise the relative large number of students, 15, participating to the event.

Special thanks to the Local Organizing Committee: D. Schumann (Chair), Z. Talip, E.A. Maugeri, R. Dressler, K. Daniela, A. Blattmann, M. Veicht, N. Cerboni

LRC is happy to congratulate Veicht Mario Aaron, one of our most promising student, for the successful defence of his PhD Thesis, 30^th of September, 2022, at PSI Auditorium lecture hall.

All LRC members are proud of Tiebel Georg, who won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2022, 8 September 2020. Congratulation Georg, great job!