The APS Upgrade project includes the construction of several new beamlines, but every existing beamline will be improved as well. Winarski is the man overseeing all of that work.

Many of the Argonne employees who signed the magnet in 1994 still work for the laboratory, and their experiences building the original APS are vital to the ongoing effort to upgrade the facility.

With the start of the construction period, the Advanced Photon Source is now only a year away from re-emerging as a world-leading X-ray light source. Its brighter beams will lead to new discoveries in energy storage, materials science, medicine and more.

As the environment, safety and health lead for the APS Upgrade, Freedman knows that the most important part of the project is the people who make it happen.

As a safety systems interlocks engineer, Anne Boron oversees the safety of researchers at the APS.

Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer and upgraded Advanced Photon Source will be powerful tools for discovery. Together, they’ll form a scientific supermerger: The combined data collection and computing power will advance discovery time and unlock new science.

Mechanical designer Maria O’Neill thinks of creative solutions to the challenges of upgrading the APS.

As a vacuum engineering specialist for the Advanced Photon Source’s new storage ring, John Zientek has a unique view of how things are coming together, one weld at a time.

Poxviruses are many and unpleasant, and they have an impressive ability to evade or deceive human immune responses. Scientists using the Advanced Photon Source want to outsmart them.

As part of a massive upgrade to the Advanced Photon Source (APS), scientists studying the ​“chemical map” of samples will have better proximity to colleagues, improved research tools and state-of-the-art facilities.