Funding Request for Starting Up the Core Facility for Advanced Spectroscopy (CFAS).

The core facility consists of a 19 highly complex experimental setups empowered with a web-based tool for proposals submission, description of techniques and communication with users. As such, an incubation funding is essential to allow the employment of a research scientist, acting as 'core facility manager', in order to complete the first but critical steps like designing the aforementioned web-based platform, resolving the administrative flow and documentation, disseminating the facility’s potential among future users and building a network of regular users or prepare training sessions and safety protocols for specific users. A pivotal role is given to the coordinator to act as a driving force on three distinctive levels: management, technical and scientific.