Andreas Meyer

Prof. Dr.  Andreas Meyer is ILL's German Associate Director from 1 October 2021, and also Head of the Technology and Projects Division (DPT).

He is an expert in the application of neutron scattering to materials science, focusing in particular on the dynamics and structure of metallic melts at very high temperatures and close to the glass transition.

After completing a PhD based on the research he conducted at the Nuclear Resonant Scattering Beamline at the ESRF, Andreas Meyer joined the United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology where he worked on the commissioning of a new neutron backscattering spectrometer. 

He then joined the Physics Department of the Technical University in Munich as an assistant professor (Habilitant) and later became head of the Institute of Experimental Physics E13. Since 2006, he is the Director of the Institute of Materials Physics in Space at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, in a joint appointment with the Ruhr University Bochum and currently on secondment at the ILL.

Throughout his career to date, neutron-based science has been an important part of Andreas Meyer's research portfolio. He has also represented the German neutron scattering community in a variety of capacities, most recently as an elected member of the German Committee for Research with Neutrons.