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Ralf Schweins

►  Head of theLarge Scale Structures (LSS)group►  ILL Member of thePSCMSteering Committee►  Instrument co-responsible onD11Main areas of expertise : soft condensed matter SANS | static and dynamic light scattering | SAXS and anomalous SAXS
E-mail schweins(at)ill.fr
Location Science Building (3rd floor), office SB317
Phone Phone : +33 (0)4 76 20 70 91
Instr. phone +33 (0)4 76 20 70 35
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About
1993 - 1998 Studies of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Germany

1998

PhD in physical chemistry, University Paderborn, Germany

2002

PhD in physical chemistry, University Paderborn, Germany

2002 – 2007

Scientist & D11 Instrument Co-Responsible in the Large Scale Structures Group at the ILL

2007 – 2015

Staff Scientist & D11 Instrument Co-Responsible in the Large Scale Structures Group at the ILL

2015 – 2022

Staff Scientist & D11 Instrument First Responsible in the Large Scale Structures Group at the ILL

2020 – now

ILL Member of the Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter (PSCM) between ESRF and ILL

2023

Interim Head of the Soft Matter Science and Support (SMSS) group, group has been integrated into the newly created BDCS group

2023 – now

Head of the Large Scale Structures (LSS) Group

Research Focus

Investigating soft condensed matter, focusing on polymers, colloids, self-assembly processes, liquid-liquid phase separation

mainly using scattering techniques (SANS, SAXS, SLS, DLS)

Development of in-situ sample environments for irradiation, light scattering, separation techniques, fast mixing

Projets & Collaborations

Involved as ILL supervisor of numerous ILL-funded PhD projects, recent projects involve(d)

  • Klaus Huber, University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Franziska Gröhn, FAU University of Erlangen, Germany
  • Corine Gerardin, Julien Schmitt, University of Montpellier, France
  • Simon Ebbinghaus, RUB University of Bochum, Germany

Collaboration partners without a recent PhD project include

  • Olivier Colombani, Erwan Nicol, University of Le Mans, France
  • Dave Adams, Emily Draper, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Andrea Scotti, University of Lund, Sweden
  • Frank Schreiber, University of Tübingen, Germany