Taken from the 2020 Physics World Big Science Briefing.
Isabelle Blain is chair of the board at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is a former vice-president of NSERC, Canada’s science and engineering granting council. Marie D’Iorio is a CLS board member, senior strategy adviser at the University of Ottawa and president of NanoCanada. Together, they answer Physics World’s questions about the CLS, which has been running for more than 16 years and is the first national synchrotron in Canada