Grahame Blair
| is Executive Director (Programmes) of STFC and current Chair of the ILL Steering Committee. He was previously a high energy physicist, Head of Physics at RHUL and Deputy Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science |
George Stirling (SRC 1960s-) | is a research chemist involved in the original discussions for UK membership, detached to ILL in the early 1970s, with involvement later in the UK NBRU and ISIS. |
Alan Hewat (ILL 1973-2007) | is a solid state physicist working with neutrons from 1962 as an undergraduate, then as a Harwell Fellow before joining ILL, where he became the Diffraction Group leader. He later founded NeutronOptics.com to manufacture neutron cameras (2007-2023). |
Joe Zaccai (ILL 1973-, IBS..) | obtained his PhD in solid state physics then turned to Biophysics. He was the instrument responsible for D16 and modified it into a membrane diffractometer. In 1980, he was hired by the CNRS and later headed the Biophysics Laboratory of the Institut de Biologie Structurale. He returned to ILL as Senior fellow for Biology. He is now a CNRS emeritus scientist. |
Julia Higgins (ILL 1973-1976) | is a polymer scientist who worked with John White in Oxford before joining ILL. She is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, and has served UK science in many capacities, including as chair of the EPSRC. |
Bill Stirling (ILL 1973-1987 - 2014-2016) | is a condensed matter physicist who was responsible for IN12 and the design of IN14. After a period as Professor of Physics at Keele and Liverpool Universities, he became Director General of the ESRF (2001-2008) and then Director of ILL (2014-2016). |
Brian Fender (ILL 1980-1985) | is a physical chemist from Oxford involved in early negotiations for UK membership, then Director (1980-1985). He was Vice-Chancellor of Keele (1985–95) and chairman of BTG plc and charitable organisations.. |
Colin Carlile (ILL 1999-2006) | was Head of ISIS Spectroscopy (1973-1999) before becoming ILL Director. He became Professor at Lund University, Director of the ESS project, then Director General of ESS. He continues working at Lund on telescope arrays and Uppsala on neutrino sources |
Roger Eccleston
| is Director of the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He first joined ISIS as a sandwich student, then again as an instrument scientist, becoming a Group Leader and Division Head before leaving ISIS for university positions in 2004. He returned to ISIS for a third time as Director in 2021. |
Ross Stewart (ILL 1998-2008) | was an ILL scientist between 1998 and 2008 - D22, D7 and IN4. Leader of the D7 Millennium Project (2000-2005). After leaving ILL, he joined ISIS. He became Excitations Group Leader in 2011. He is Chair of the UK Neutron Scattering Group |
Fabrizia Foglia | is an EPSRC Early Career Fellow & Lecturer in Inorganic and Material Chemistry at UCL London. After graduating from King's College, she worked at University College and Imperial College of London. |
Matthew Blakeley (at ILL since 2007) | joined ILL to develop neutron macromolecular crystallography using Laue diffraction, following postdoctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and a degree from the University of Manchester. He is an instrument scientist responsible for LADI-DALI at the ILL. |
Nina-Juliane Steinke (at ILL since 2019) | is an instrument scientist at ILL on D33 - a small-angle diffractometer - in the Large Scale Structure science group. She received her PhD from Cambridge. She works on magnetism and use polarised neutron techniques. She worked also at ISIS as instrument scientist for a spin-echo enabled, polarised reflectometer (Offspec). |
Charles Dewhurst (ILL since 1999) | Joined the ILL in 1999 from Warwick, after degrees from Leeds and Cambridge. He is Scientific Assistant to the Director and responsible for the instrument upgrade programme. |
Paolo Radaelli (ILL 1977-1980) | is Dr Lee’s Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has held posts at CNRS, ILL (as instrument responsible of D2B), ISIS (as instrument responsible of Gem, Crystallography Group Leader and STFC Fellow) and the University of Oxford, which he joined in 2008. He is vice-chair (to become chair from 2024) of the ILL Scientific Council. |
Theo Rycroft | former EU Director and Legal Adviser to the Prime Minister, he was appointed as the Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Paris in July 2021. He holds an LLM in International Law and Jurisprudence from UCL and an MA in Classics from the University of Oxford. |
Ken Andersen (ILL 1989-91, 95-99, 2002-10- 2023…) | joined ILL as a PhD student from Keele University. After a postdoc at KEK, he was D7 responsible and then moved to ISIS as an instrument scientist. He returned to ILL to head the Neutron Optics lab, before becoming Head of the ESS Instruments Division (2010), then Associate Lab Director for Neutron Sciences at ORNL, before returning to ILL as Director in 2023 |
