Francesco Sette takes over from Christof Kunz

Francesco Sette, a well known figure at the ESRF, recently began his five-year term of office as one of the ESRF's Research Directors, succeeding Christof Kunz. Francesco has many firsts to his name. For the first time, ESRF appointed one of its resident staff to the Director's post. He has been the Head of the Inelastic X-ray Scattering Group at the ESRF for some 10 years. Prior to this, he was a staff member (1984–1990) at Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA).

Figure 1 Francesco Sette.