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discovered 01.13 FOCUS WWW.Hzdr.DE // Europe’s big ion beam centers stand united in SPIRIT. The EU project is coordinated by HZDR’s Wolfhard Möller who is scientist, manager, and passionate musician rolled into one. _Interview . Christine Bohnet Bundled Irradiation Power SPIRIT stands for "Support of Public and Industrial Research Using Ion Beam Technology." Ion beams – rapid, charged particles – are tools for modifying or analyzing material surfaces. In a truly European spirit, eleven European ion beam centers from six EU member states as well as two associate states have joined forces and are opening up their facilities and technologies to users from science and industry. Research topics range from material and biomedical science all the way to cultural or environmental research and technologies. Mr. Möller, you initiated the SPIRIT project as director of our Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research and brought it to Dresden. This is now your fourth year as the project’s coordinator – in spite of the fact that you are a professor emeritus. What’s the appeal? SPIRIT is a model for success – thanks to a number of factors like solid in-house support. I’m very happy about this since it was the EU’s involvement in SPIRIT that ultimately kept our Ion Beam Center open, which I directed between 1993 and 2010. I am especially grateful to my successor, Jürgen Fassbender, who never once made us question his commitment to the COORDINATOR: Wolfhard Möller, the former Director of the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, heads the EU project SPIRIT.

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