Dr. Aymeric Robert

Aymeric ROBERT is Senior Advisor and Deputy Science Director for MAX 4^U at MAX IV Laboratory, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in physics at Joseph Fourier University with a fellowship from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France) in 2001. He was among the team that pioneered the use of X-ray coherence to develop X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) at the ESRF, the world’s first third-generation synchrotron source (from 1998 to 2007). From 2007 to 2012, he built the third instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA): the X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy instrument. LCLS is the world’s first hard X-ray-Free Electron Laser. He was hard X-ray Department head (2012), then Deputy Director of the LCLS Science Division (2015) until moving to MAX IV Laboratory in 2021 as Scientific Director for Physical Sciences. MAX IV hosts the first fourth-generation synchrotron source. He was appointed Senior Advisor in 2024 and Deputy Science Director for MAX 4U in 2025 and leads the science case for MAX 4U, an ambitious upgrade of our fourth-generation 3GeV storage ring. He advocates for the use of X-ray coherence and high brightness beams, but also perfect and novel X-ray optics and instrumentation in X-ray science at MAX IV and beyond.