The SIMS fees for a day of analysis were the same since 2020. Due to the huge increase in the energy and consummable part prices the past 4 years, the fees have been now recalculated, based on the SNSF rules, and validated.

A day of analysis is now 1245 chf. 

It is still possible to register to the SIMS-NanoSIMS workshop, until late May.

More info: here

We are organizing a SIMS workshop at UNIL, from July 6th to July 8th, before the Goldschmidt conference.

Registrations will soon open, until March 1rst.

More info: here

and 

SIMS workshop

Call for proposal for Fall 2022 is open. Dealdine is November 14th.

Proposal forms for new projects and for project follow-up can be found on this webpage and should be send to swisssims’at’unil.ch.

For any technical question, please contact anne-sophie.bouvier’at’unil.ch (lab manager) or johanna.marincarbonne’at’unil.ch (head of the lab)

We are pleased to announce that the SwissSIMS is organizing a SIMS Winter School, from January 16^th to 20^th, 2023, at University of Lausanne. Registrations are now open, until October 31rst.

You can find more information on: unil.ch/summerschools/swisssims

SwissSIMS call for proposals 2021 is now open.

We strongly encourage submission of projects for which we already have developed the method and have the required standards. Projects needing development (method and/or standard) will be considered, but may be scheduled with a lower priority.

The proposal can be found here. Methods, reference material available and expected precision are described on those 2 pages: standards and analyses.

Please send the proposal, to:

Dr. Anne-Sophie Bouvier, Laboratory Manager of the SwissSIMS by e-mail (swisssims@nullunil.ch) no later September 24^th, 2021.

Dear all,

As you may already know, the SwissSIMS lab is closed, as UNIL, until at least April 30^th. The SwissSIMS schedule, originally full until late August, will thus have to be reorganized as soon as we will now when the labs could re-open. It is yet not clear when the SwissSIMS lab will reopen, but we would like to specify 2 points:

• We will first have to perform some tests, to ensure the machine is still working well after 7 weeks (or more) of shutdown
• Social distancing in our lab is hard to maintain. Late March, we were supposed to do maintenance to fix a problem affecting the measurements in Cs mode. We will have to do this maintenance before any Cs mode measurements. And this maintenance requires the presence of 2 persons. So we might be able to run only in “hyperion” mode during the first weeks of reopening, with only one person in the lab (ie, only experienced used).

For those reasons, we decided to cancel the first SwissSIMS call for proposal 2020. The persons originally scheduled until late August will be/have already been contacted and will be kept updated on the schedule. We will discuss with them the different possibilities for their session (report later, or send us the mounts + documentation, or other options)

In the meantime, please let us know if there is any “urgent” project that should be done by the end of this year (or even before, for the PhD students finishing their thesis). We’ll do a priority list and rework the schedule as best as we can.

We apologize for the inconvenience

Best wishes,

The SwissSIMS team

Due to Covid-19, the SwissSIMS lab (as UNIL) is closed until April 30th. This might of course last longer, depending on the evolution of the situation.

We will contact all person that were already scheduled until July, so find new dates.

As of January 1rst, 2020 Prof Johanna Marin-Carbonne is now the head of the SwissSIMS lab.