Australian Synchrotron
Access to Australian Synchrotron
Australian Synchrotron, under the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), became our first overseas synchrotron facility partner in October 2022. Since the launch of SG-ISAP, we have supported over 100 Singapore-based project teams to access Australian Synchrotron for their research work. We have also recently expanded our access agreement with ANSTO to include the BRIGHT beamlines due to overwhelming demand for beamtime shifts.
From Year 2026, the following Australian Synchrotron beamlines in Melbourne are available for application under Singapore-International Synchrotron Access Programme. Please ensure to contact the relevant Australian Synchrotron beamline scientist(s) to discuss on the feasibility of your project before submitting your Whitepaper application.
Available Beamlines
| Australian Synchrotron Beamlines | BRIGHT Beamlines |
|---|---|
| Imaging and Medical | Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering (BioSAXS) |
| Macromolecular and Microfocus Crystallography | Micro-Computed Tomography (MCT) |
| Powder Diffraction | Medium Energy X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy-1 (MEX1) |
| SAXS / WAXS | Medium Energy X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy-2 (MEX2) |
| Soft X-ray Spectroscopy | |
| X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy | |
| X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy | |
| For more information on the above beamlines, please visit the following websites: | |
Merit Access
Merit proposals are peer-reviewed for scientific merit and technical feasibility by external scientific reviewers and a specialist committee. Based on these reviews, proposals are then ranked for each beamline, and all applicants are notified by the user office of the outcomes.
Merit Access - Proposal round deadlines
Dates subject to change
User Portal
Use this portal to submit proposals and subsequent experiments for access to the Australian Synchrotron.
Please refer to SG-ISAP's Quick Reference Guide for assistance on submission in the user portal.
Read More on Australian SynchrotronImportant Points to Note
- No change of approved PI, title, scope of project or requested beam shifts is allowed when the proposal is submitted to the ANSTO website.
- Please ensure all information required is included in full proposal submission. Please include enough details to either assess the technical feasibility or to justify the need to use synchrotron radiation to answer your research question.
- Please get in touch with respective AS beamline scientists when you are preparing your full proposals. This is to avoid proposals being marked as infeasible.
Beamline Scientists
| PD | Powder Diffraction | as-pd@ansto.gov.au |
|---|---|---|
| SXR | Soft X-ray Spectroscopy | as-softxray@ansto.gov.au |
| SAXS | Small and Wide Angle Scattering | as-saxswaxs@ansto.gov.au |
| XAS | X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy | as-xas@ansto.gov.au |
| XFM | X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy | as-xfm@ansto.gov.au |
| IMBL | Imaging and Medical | as-imbl@ansto.gov.au |
| BioSAXS | Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering | as-scattering@ansto.gov.au |
| MCT | Micro-Computed Tomography | as-mct@ansto.gov.au |
| MEX1 | Medium Energy X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy-1 | as-mex@ansto.gov.au |
| MEX2 | Medium Energy X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy-2 | as-mex@ansto.gov.au |