What is the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Zentrum?

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) is a leading centre for cutting-edge research with neutrons and positrons. By offering a unique suite of high-performance neutron scattering instruments, scientists are encouraged and enabled to pursue state-of-the-art research in diverse fields as physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, engineering or material science. The MLZ mission is to offer substantial support to scientists from all over the world in addressing the grand challenges facing society today. 

The MLZ represents the scientific cooperation for the exploitation of the scientific use of the Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz in Garching near Munich, Germany. The main MLZ partners are the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (former HZG) and Technische Universität München (TUM).