End Station Engineering Section / Photon Factory

The end station engineering section promotes the sophistication of beamline end stations including experimental devices and the development of measurement techniques, aiming to create new application research utilizing the features of synchrotron radiation. The section members play a central role to achieve the further development of synchrotron radiation utilization technology in collaboration with members of Synchrotron Radiation Science Divisions (SRSD) 1 and 2 and of the other sections in the PF.

Section Leader：Nobutaka Shimizu

Organization and role of this section

This section organizes 10 methodological groups, and each beamline belongs to one of groups. These 10 groups are classified into six categories, which correspond to the six subcommittees of the Photon Factory Program Advisory Committee (PF-PAC).

PF-PAC	Methodological group	Beamlines	Member
1st	Photoelectron spectroscopy	2A/B, 28A/B, 3B, 11D, 13A/B	M. Kitamura (SRSD1/Surface Sci.) K. Mase (PF/Beamline Eng.), K. Ozawa( PF/End Station Eng.)
	Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy	7A, 11A, 11B, 16A, 20A, 27A	J. Adachi (PF/Beamline Eng.), K. Amemiya (SRSD1/Surface Sci.), Y. Kitajima (PF/Adm), T. Ohigashi (PF/End Station Eng.), N. Usami (PF/Adm.)
	Soft X-ray microscopy	19A/B	S. Yamashita (PF/End Station Eng.)
2nd	Diffraction and scattering	3A, 4B2, 4C, 6C, 7C, 8A, 8B, 10A, 14A, 18B	S. Kishimoto (PF/Beamline Eng.), R. Kumai (SRSD1/Solid State Phys.), H. Nakao (SRSD1/Solid State Phys.), D. Okuyama (PF/End Station Eng.), H. Sagamaya (SRSD1/ Solid State Phys.), H. Sugiyama (PF/Beamline Eng.)
3rd	Hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy	4A, 9A, 9C, 12C, 15A1, 27B, NW2A, NW10A	H. Abe (SRSD2/Materials Sci.), H. Nitani (PF/Beamline Eng.), Y. Niwa (PF/End Station Eng.), N. Usami (PF/Adm.)
4th	Macromolecular crystallography	1A, 5A, 17A, NE3A, NW12A	M. Hikita (SRSD2/Structural Biol.), N. Matsugaki (PF/End Station Eng.), Y. Yamada (SRSD2/Structural Biol.)
5th	Small-angle scattering	6A, 10C, 15A2	N. Igarashi (PF/Beamline Eng.), N. Shimizu (PF/End Station Eng.), H. Takagi (End Station Eng.)
6th	High pressure science	18C, NE1A, NE5C, NE7A	N. Funamori (PF/Adm.), Y. Shibazaki (PF/End Station Eng.))
	Ultrafast time-resolved technique	NW14A	J. Adachi (PF-Beamline Eng.), S. Nozawa (SRSD2/Materials Sci.)
	X-ray optics and imaging	3C, 14B, 14C, 20B, NE7A	K. Hirano (PF/Beamline Sci.), K. Hyodo (PF/Adm.), H. Sugiyama (PF/Beamline Eng.)

The beamline scientists are responsible for maintenance, upgrading, and promotion of public use of the beamlines in their group and aim to create new synchrotron radiation research that correlates with their specialized method while keeping an eye on the domestic and international situation and trends.

This section takes the initiative in discussion about the sustainability and development of the PF/PF-AR beamlines. This section is also responsible for fostering the next generation of beamline scientists, who will be trained not only in specific techniques but also in a wide range of beamline technologies common to synchrotron radiation facilities.

Members

	Method. group	Specialized fields	Links
Nobutaka Shimizu　 [Professor] nobutaka.shimizu@kek.jp	Leader, Small-angle scattering	Small-angle X-ray scattering, Structural biology, Biophysics	researchmap ORCID PF-SAXS Beamline
Naohiro Matsugaki　 [Associate Professor] naohiro.matsugaki@kek.jp	Macromolecular crystallography	Macromolecular crystallography	researchmap ORCID
Kenichi Ozawa　 [Associate Professor] kenichi.ozawa@kek.jp	Photoelectron spectroscopy	Surface science, Surface and interface electronic properties	researchmap ORCID
Takuji Ohigashi　 [Associate Professor] ohigashi@post.kek.jp	Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy	X-ray optics	researchmap ORCID
Daisuke Okuyama　 [Associate Professor] daisuke.okuyama@kek.jp	Diffraction and scattering	X-ray diffraction, Magnetism, Crystal/magnetic structure analysis	researchmap
Hideaki Takagi　 [Assistant Professor] takagih@post.kek.jp	Small-angle scattering	Small-angle X-ray scattering, Polymer science	researchmap ORCID PF-SAXS beamline
Shohei Yamashita　 [Assistant Professor] yamasho@post.kek.jp	Soft X-ray microscopy	X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Inorganic chemistry	researchmap ORCID
Yuki Shibazaki　 [Assistant Professor] yuki.shibazaki@kek.jp	High pressure science	High pressure science	researchmap ORCID
Yasuhiro Niwa　 [Assistant Professor] yasuhiro.niwa@kek.jp	Hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy	Time-resolved XAFS, Imaging XAFS, Materials science	researchmap ORCID
Chika Kamezawa　 [Postdoctoral Fellow] kchika@post.kek.jp		X-ray imaging	researchmap ORCID
Takumi Kikegawa　 [Researcher] takumi.kikegawa@kek.jp		High pressure science, Earth and planetary science