Biophysics & Radio-Biology Program Advisory Committee (Bio-PAC)

GSI/FAIR have established a Biophysics & Radio-Biology Program Advisory Committee (Bio-PAC) that evaluates experiment proposals in the areas of biophysics, radiobiology, and radiotherapy. The Bio-PAC members give advice to the GSI/FAIR directorate on selecting experiment proposals that are submitted by individual users or user groups, currently for the FAIR-Phase 0 program. Following periodic calls for proposals, the Bio-PAC evaluates the experiment proposals on the basis of scientific merit and with regard to the GSI/FAIR strategy, and advises the GSI/FAIR Scientific Director on the amount of beamtime to be approved.

'Call for Proposals' for beamtime in 2026/2027 (closed since March 19, 2025)

The GSI/FAIR Scientific Management invited experiment proposals to be submitted in the framework of FAIR Phase-0, which offers beamtime for experiments at GSI until the start of FAIR. The FAIR Phase-0 program is exploiting the facilities of GSI, upgraded to meet the requirements as FAIR injectors, plus the FAIR CRYRING storage ring and the PHELIX laser. Moreover, it offers an opportunity to use detectors developed for FAIR for scientific programs.

This Call for Proposals is foreseen to offer user beamtime in the areas of biophysics, radiobiology and radiotherapy in the years 2026 and 2027 combined (counted as main shifts, w/o machine tuning shifts) of roughly

  • 4,5 shifts at UNILAC,
  • 51,0 shifts at SIS18.

A list of typically available beam parameters can be found here.

Proposals to be evaluated by the Bio-PAC were to be submitted by March 18, 2025.

Please note that due to current European sanctions participants with Russian or Belarussian affiliation cannot be participants in experiment proposals at GSI/FAIR.

During proposal submission the Proposer is explicitly asked to indicate host lab resources required for the proposed experiment additional to beamtime requests. Related to preparations for FAIR, technical and infrastructure departments often have very tight time schedules and need to plan carefully with respect to time and manpower.  In order to offer the best possible service enabling the experiments to be set up and run in an optimal way, we need to know all requirements to us as host lab in advance.

 

In the webform you are asked to mark whether and which resources you will need, incl. further specifications on this request. This will allow the involved departments to confirm the feasibility. Together with your local contact person, you can restrict your information there to a minimum and best guesses from experience or after consulting the department involved. In case of doubts, the respective department will come back to you with further questions before confirming feasibility of your experiment.

While this information in the proposal serves as rough information only, when planning the execution of your experiment you need to contact the respective host department directly and with concrete details on your requirements.

 

We absolutely want to avoid the situation in which after evaluation and granting we discover, that the proponents had expected service of GSI, which cannot be delivered (at the required time/in that detail or volume) and thus a granted experiment cannot run.

 

Specific information for users of the bio facilities are given here:  Information for Users and Facilities within the Biophysics group.

For specific information for users of the biophysical research facilities please see:  Information for Users and Facilities within the Biophysics group.

 

Please note that financial support is available via the TNA pograms HITRIplus and EURO-LABS, for which separate applications need to be submitted. Please find more information for user, incl. finanical support here.

For proposal and user management we use the platform GATE: The General Access Tool to the Experimental facilities of GSI / FAIR. 

Registration to GATE under: https://gate.gsi.de.

GATE Short Manual for Users: here

Registration in GATE is possible independant of an open 'Call' at any time and registered users will be informed on new 'Calls'. So it is advisable for interested users to register any time.

All (!) participants of a proposal and experimentalists coming on-site for the experiment need to be registered in GATE (and allow being visible for other users' search in GATE).

 

Note on Research Data Management Plan

A Research Data Management Plan (RDMP) is currently not mandatory, but users are asked to plan ahead of time how to take, manage, process and store their data, and think about its possible later publication. This also helps in formulating a request for host lab resources, e.g. IT support, if required. For more information see this document.

Experiments with granted beamtime (i.e. ranked A) are listed in this table. It contains experiments in the status after granting and before completion/expiry, and gives number of granted shifts.

Experiments in the reserve list have been ranked A- due to large overdraft of beamtime. They might be scheduled if beamtime becomes available. 

Data are updated before and after a beamtime block.

Members of the Bio-PAC

  • Prof. Dr. Peter Dendooven
    University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands /  Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chiara La Tessa
    University of Miami, Radiation Oncology, Miami, USA
  • Prof. Vincenzo Patera, Chair Bio-PAC (Spokesperson of Biophysics Collaboration)
    Sapienza University of Rome, INFN, Italy
  • Dr. Yolanda Prezado (Deputy Spokesperson of Biophysics Collaboration)
    Centre for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    / Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France
  • Dr. Michael Story
    Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL USA

Bio-PAC Scientific Secretary

Dr. Karin Füssel

GSI, Darmstadt

Phone: +49-6159-71 1441

contact by E-Mail to: K.Fuessel(at)gsi.de

 

Next Bio-PAC Meeting

Presently, there is no meeting of the committee planned, nor is there any open 'Call for Beamtime Proposals'.

Users registered in GATE indicating their interest in our facilities will be informed on new calls.

Recent Bio-PAC Meetings

   

User Services

Information for Users on services and beam time can be found on the Users' Webpages.  

Central point of contact for associated guests and users on campus is the Welcome Office.

 

Beamtime Proposals & Experiments:

'Call for Proposals' are sent to users registered in GATE and published through the users' mailinglist. For registering to this mailinglist please see the Users Webpage.

Information on applications and scheduling of beam time is given under the websites: Applying for Beamtime, respectively Scheduling. General information on beam time can be found here.

 

General Data Protection Regulation GDPR (according to Art. 13 and 14 DSGVO): Staff Management Board GDPR english


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