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Every year, Diamond produces an Annual Review, covering the scientific, technical, computing and business updates from the facility.The 2023/2024 Annual Review of Diamond Light Source reveals a challenging and successful year for its scientists and 14,000 users.
CEO Gianluigi Botton, who has been in the post since October 2023, notes:
The Annual Report contains examples of high impact science drawn from across the broad range of areas of fundamental science that Diamond serves, and the societal challenges it helps address. These include health and wellbeing, the environment, transport and energy challenges of the future, as well as functional materials, including electronic devices and high-performance engineering alloys, and new processing technology for innovative manufacturing.”
Chairman of the Diamond Board, Prof. Sir Adrian Smith PRS, comments:
Over the past decade, this facility and its staff have made remarkable achievements. It has been an exciting and rewarding time seeing Diamond grow from 22 beamlines to some 33 today with additional complementary facilities, like ePSIC and eBIC, supporting world-class science needed by the users. Throughout these ten years, it’s been clear that Diamond is an outstanding jewel in the UK science crown.”
In the last budget year, after peer review of 2,034 proposals for experiments, 1,312 were awarded beamtime. This resulted in 15,972 experimental shifts being awarded across 33 beamlines and eight electron microscopes. Nearly 40% of these experimental shifts were connected to research in biology and bio-materials; with 16% chemistry, 16% environment and 13% materials research making up the other major sectors. Diamond also welcomed 5,398 onsite user visits from academia across all instruments, with an additional 4,078 remote user visits.
View the 2023/2024 Annual Review
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