Established in 1959, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) is an institute of comprehensive researches in nuclear techniques other than power and arms. Occupying a total area of 47 hectares, it is building the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) in its Zhangjiang campus (239 Zhang Heng Road, in Pudong New District of Shanghai), while being engaged in research fields of ion beam analysis techniques and interdisciplinary studies, radiopharmaceuticals and labeled compounds, irradiation facilities and radiation processing of polymeric materials, and advanced detectors and imaging techniques, etc. in its Jiading campus. It has established two key labs, namely CAS Key Laboratory of Nuclear Analysis Techniques and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Superconductive Radio-Frequency Cavity Techniques.
Currently SINAP has more than 700 employees, including 500 scientists and engineers, 1 academician, 60 professors or equivalents. In addition, it has about 300 graduate students (PhD and MS programs) and several post-doctor programs.
Over the years SINAP scientists have made over 600 scientific achievements, 163 of which won awards from the nation, CAS or Shanghai city. Typical examples include the 1.4 m cyclotron on which 202Pt was synthesized as a breakthrough in China in new nuclide synthesis and identification; the first mini cyclotron mass spectroscopy in the world; and 67Ga-labeled citrate, the first radiopharmaceutical in Chinese Pharmacopeias. The SSRF, the biggest scientific project in China, is a high performance 3rd generation synchrotron radiation source and will be a platform for advanced researches in China when it is completed in 2009.
SINAP has active academic exchange and cooperation programs in synchrotron radiation (SR) and free electron laser (FEL), nuclear physics and interdisciplinary studies and advanced techniques, with many research institutions in USA, Europe, Japan and other parts of the world. The programs include collaborations in SR and/or FEL with Diamond of UK, FZR and BESSY-II of Germany, ESRF of France, PSI of Switzerland, ELETTRA of Italy, Japanese institutions of Spring-8, KEK and Saga University, and PLS of South Korea. In addition, SINAP joined the RICH-STAR Project of international cooperation and the PRC/U.S. Cooperative Program in High Energy Physics.
SINAP sponsors and edits academic journals of Nuclear Techniques (in Chinese), Nuclear Science and Techniques (in English), and Radiation Research and Radiation Processing (in Chinese). Shanghai Nuclear Society, Synchrotron Radiation Society under Physics Society of China, and Radiation Research and Radiation Processing Society under Nuclear Society of China, are headquartered at SINAP.
SINAP is striving towards its goal of becoming a fist class research institution in the world in applied physics and interdisciplinary studies, and a world class research center of advanced photon science and applied physics. For more information about SINAP, please see http://www.sinap.ac.cn/