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Dr. Olga Matsarskaia (ILL SANS staff scientist), the winner of the 2020 dissertation award from the Condensed Matter Section of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)

Neutrons help investigating the impact of alkanes, which could have allowed the first life to emerge around deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

Combating the biases women face at work is critical. Research shows that bias contributes to women being passed over for jobs and promotions. Almost three in four women experience bias at work, and those who do are more likely to leave their jobs. And women of color, LGBTQ+ women, and women with disabilities face more acute biases. Yet only one in three employees, including managers, challenges b…

Innovation depends on diversity and inclusiveness. Although the gender balance in scientific organisations is slowly improving, women remain particularly poorly represented in many other areas of activity, and particularly so at decision-making level. On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) reaffirms its commitment to equal gender opportunities, a…

The weakly coupled planes of Fe ions in the material are pushed closer together under extreme pressure. This results in metallisation but not the loss of all magnetic order as previous measurements have suggested. The lower pressure order is however replaced by a new short-range version. …

ILL warmly congratulates Dr. Sabrina Disch, the winner of the Wolfram-Prandl-Prize 2020 for young scientists. The German Committee Research with Neutrons (KFN) awarded the prize on the occasion of the German Conference Neutron Scattering Conference (DN2020) .Dr. Sabrina Disch received the 2500-Eur…

Paul Langan. Credit: ORNL 14 December 2020The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is delighted to announce that its next Director will be Prof Paul Langan. Prof Langan will take up his duties on 1st October 2021 when Helmut Schober, the current Director, completes his ter…

Recent experiments jointly conducted at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) alongside three other laboratories around the world have revealed a surprisingly complex landscape of three different coexisting shapes in 64Ni, a semi-magic nucleus thought to be purely spherical up to now.  This experimenta…

By Araceli LOPEZ-MARTENS, CSNSM, Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, France