The big picture

Two months have passed since the last blog post and many things have happened. However, I have not updated the blog due to heavy workload, due to all the things to get ready before I leave for my new position. But here is a run-down of the most important things:

• SMILE did not get core facility support for the period 2013-2015 and is thus not formally a core facility as of 1st of January 2013. However, the board has decided that the lab will continue as before, with all functionalities intact. The board is at work mapping out the future directions SMILE will develop in, with data simulation being a core feature. 
• As a result of the above, the manager position will be diminished and also split in two: an administrative part and a computer part. The new administrative manager will be Karl Bodell. The computer manager position is as yet unfilled.
• Three new theses connected to SMILE have passed the test, and we congratulate Dr Julia Miralbell, Dr. Virginija Karrenbauer and Dr. Daniel Ferreira Padilla.
• We also congratulate Tie-Qiang Li and Rimma Axelsson on becoming professors at KI.

I will now leave for vacation (26th of October to 7th of December) and will work one last week at SMILE (10th-14th of December) before beginning in my new position.