Neutron Scattering Group
BTM Willis Prize 2025 - Winner: Dr Adam Michalchuk
Don McKenzie Paul Thesis Prize 2025 - Winner: Dr. Jennifer Nadine Graham
The associate partners of the ILL (UK, France and Germany) have agreed to assure ILL operation till at least 2033.
For further information see the Latest News on ILL Website .
We are proud to have played a small part in bringing this about and thank UK neutron community and our committee for your continuous support.
The Neutron Scattering Group is a group jointly hosted by Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to promote neutron science actively with its UK user community. Our aims are to:
- Organise events to develop UK neutron user links and discuss results from neutron experiments
- Provide links to and from UK-funded neutron sources and the European Neutron Scattering Association
- Represent neutron scattering and its UK users within the IOP and RSC learned societies
- Support actively early career researchers in the UK to engage with neutron scattering
Our mission is to support and develop the UK neutron community in a rapidly changing global neutron landscape, and to represent UK neutron scattering externally. Additionally, we award the BTM Willis Prize, Don McKenzie Paul Thesis Prize and the Thomas-Penfold Poster Prize annually. Examples of activities include organising and contributing to conferences and schools involving neutron scattering research, e.g. the Faraday Joint Interest Group Conferences in 2017, 2021 and 2023, the biennial Oxford School on Neutron Scattering and early career researcher meetings in 2020 and 2022.