
Instruments
Fifteen instruments for science are included in the ESS construction project. Each instrument is unique, optimised for obtaining particular kinds of scientific data.
The instruments selected for construction at the European Spallation Source are versatile, and most serve several different scientific communities. Developed and built by teams across Europe, they are each designed to be world-leading from day one.
The 15 instrument concepts were selected through an inclusive process, involving applications from the community and peer-review by scientific and technical committees. The final recommendation was made by the ESS Scientific Advisory Committee and approved by ESS Council. Expansion of the suite up to 22 instruments is anticipated, and the facility is designed to accommodate even more in the future. Installation of the first instruments has begun, and the user program is set to open in 2027.
The mission of the ESS Neutron Instruments Division (NID) is to provide oversight and leadership for instrument construction projects. To do this we will:
- Provide strategic leadership on the design and evolution of the ESS instrument suite
- Provide requirements for the design and operation of the ESS facility and user programme
- Perform scientific research and method development to support the NSS mission
- Engage with NSS stakeholders and build up the user community through outreach and education
- Prepare to operate the instruments within the user programme
Head of Division and Deputy:
Staff:
For each class of instruments, there is a Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP).
The STAPs consist of experts from Europe and around the world, contributing their knowledge and experience to identify scientific possibilities and technical feasibility for ESS instrument concepts. The STAPs guide instrument concept development, and they also review the instrument proposals submitted to ESS.
- Paul Attfield (Chair)
University of Edinburgh
UK - Manuel Angst
Jülich Research Center
Germany - Tom Fennell
PSI
Switzerland - Reinhard Neder
Erlangen University
Germany - Katharine Page
ORNL
USA - Gwenaëlle Rousse
University of Marie Curie
France - Oksana Zaharko
PSI
Switzerland
Instrument Class Coordinator: Werner Schweika, ESS
- Sven Vogel (Chair)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA - Francesco Grazzi
CNR
Italy - Stephen Hall
Lund University
Sweden - Nikolay Kardjilov
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
DE - Javier Santisteban
Centro Atómico Bariloche
Argentina
Instrument Class Coordinator: Robin Woracek, ESS
- John Helliwell (Chair)
University of Manchester
UK - Matthew Blakeley
ILL
France - Derek Logan
Lund University
Sweden - Nobuo Niimura
Ibaraki University
Japan - Andreas Ostermann
TUM
Germany
Instrument Class Coordinator: Esko Oksanen, ESS
- Georg Ehlers (Chair)
ORNL
USA - Hitoshi Endo
J-PARC
Japan - Peter Falus
ILL
France - Jason Gardner
ANSTO
Australia - Thomas Keller
TUM
Germany - Stéphane Longeville
LLB
France
Instrument Class Coordinator: Melissa Sharp
- William Michael Snow (Chair)
University of Indiana
USA - Klaus Stefan Kirch
PSI
Switzerland - Peter Geltenbort
ILL
France - Valery Nesvizhevsky
ILL
France - Geoffrey L. Greene
University of Tennessee / ORNL
USA - Fred Wietfeldt
Tulane University
USA
Instrument Class Coordinator: Ken Andersen
- Robert Jacobs (Chair)
Oxford University
UK - Peter Müller-Buschbaum
TUM
Germany - Frank Heinrich
Carnegie Mellon University
USA - Kelly Morrison
Loughborough University
UK - Frank Schreiber
Tübingen University
Germany - Nina-Juliane Steinke
ILL
France
ESS coordinator: Andrew Jackson
- Anna Sokolova (Chair)
ANSTO
Australia - Joao Cabral
Imperial College London
UK - Daniel Clemens
HZB
Germany - Charles Dewhurst
ILL
France - Rachel Evans
Cambridge University
UK - Jonathan White
PSI
Switzerland
Instrument Class Coordinator: Andrew Jackson, ESS
- Georg Ehlers (Chair)
ORNL
US - Masatoshi Arai
ESS - Robert Bewley
ISIS
UK - Andrew Boothroyd
University of Oxford
UK - Bernhard Frick
ILL
France - Timmy Ramirez-Cuesta
ORNL
USA - Maikel Rheinstädter
McMaster University
Canada - Monica Jimenez Ruiz
ILL
France - Astrid Schneidewind
TUM
Germany
Instrument Class Coordinator: Pascale Deen, ESS
The ESS Instrument Collaboration Board (ICB) consists of ESS In-Kind Partner representatives from the instrument projects, and is chaired by ESS Director for Science, Andreas Schreyer.
- Christiane Alba Simionesco
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
France - Muhammad Arif
NIST
USA - Jens Birch
Linköping University
Sweden - Heloisa Bordallo
NBI - University of Copenhagen
Denmark - Thomas Brückel
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Germany - Niels Bech Christensen
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark - Mogens Christensen
Aarhus University
Denmark - Stefano Deledda
Institute for Energy Technology
Norway - Arnaud Desmedt
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
France - Bela Farago
Institut Laue-Langevin
France - Björn Hauback
Institute of Energy Technology
Norway - Jane Hvolbæk Nielsen
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark - Ulf Karlsson
KTH/LiU
Sweden - Sean Langridge
ISIS
UK - László Rosta
BNC-Wigner
Hungary - Stephane Longeville
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
France - Petr Lukáš
Nuclear Physics Institute
Czech Republic - Márton Markó
BNC-Wigner
Hungary - José Luis Martínez
ESS Bilbao
Spain - Aleksandar Matic
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden - Robert McGreevy
STFC / ISIS
UK - Martin Müller
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
Germany - Jürgen Neuhaus
Technische Universität München
Germany - Niklas Ottosson
Swedish Research Council (VR)
Sweden - Catherine Pappas
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands - Jörg Pieper
University of Tartu
Estonia - Christian Rüegg
PSI & UNI
Switzerland - Jan Saroun
Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR
Czech Republic - Alessandro Triolo
CNR-ISM
Italy

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