General news

The 2024 edition of the Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique (JDN2024) was held last week on the island of Porquerolles. 86 scientists attended the conference - a record number - including more than 20 scientists representing the ILL and its CRG…

The Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2024 was held in Trieste from 1 to 4 October. ILL was represented by its Purchasing and Partnerships and Communication services. Our stand was visited by many suppliers, as well as by R&D teams interested in…

ILL research scientist Leonardo Chiappisi has been awarded the prestigious Wolfram-Prandl Prize 2024 for young scientists for his outstanding research results on polymer-based soft matter under high-pressure conditions.

Close to 20 undergraduate students from ILL and ESRF associate and member countries are at the EPN campus to discover neutron and x-rays techniques and science, from 2 to 28 September.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the tragic and untimely passing of our friend and colleague Björn Fåk, who died in a motorcycle accident on 25 July 2024 at the age of 65. A distinguished physicist, Björn was renowned for his profound…

The SHARPER instrument at the ILL came online during the second 2024 reactor cycle, which run for 16 May to 9 June. SHARPER is a time-focusing time-of-flight spectrometer designed for quasi-elastic and inelastic scattering built and operated at the…

An agreement has just been signed between the ILL and the ESS for ILL to manufacture the detector for the CSPEC instrument at the ESS.

The PSB spotlight on “Neutrons in Biology” took place on 29 June 2024, gathering more than 50 participants from the four institutes of the EPN campus (European Photon and Neutron campus) in Grenoble.

ILL researcher Alessandro Tengattini has just been awarded a research chair at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) to develop a five-year research project exploiting the combined neutrons and X-ray imaging capabilities of the NeXT instrument…