Colleges

The ILL scientific life is organised in 'colleges', each college dealing with a particular field of research and the associated neutron methods and instrumentation. ILL scientists are members of one or more colleges, depending on their personal research interest. Each college is animated by a College Secretary elected amongst its members.

For each college there is a corresponding review panel that assesses the proposals in that field of research. These review panels, known as ‘Subcommittees’ (of the Scientific Council), meet twice a year (in Spring and Autumn) to evaluate the proposals submitted to the ILL and issue recommendations on beamtime allocation.

Subcommittee panel members are selected from the academia, with a nominated Chair. The panel also comprises the elected ILL College Secretary, who takes part in the organisation of the subcommittee meetings, an ILL Specialist, who can give technical advice during proposal evaluation. The chairs of the subcommittees are also invited to join the Scientific Council meetings.