Instruments by Science Group
Macromolecular
Soft Condensed 
Imaging and
Biological
Magnetic
Structures and
Crystallography 
Spectroscopy B07 Contact
Principal Beamline Scientist:
Georg Held
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778480
E-mail: [email protected]
Science Group Leader
Cephise Cacho
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1235 778290
B07 VERSOX: Versatile Soft X-ray
Status: Operational
Wavelength: 24.8 - 0.44 nm
Energy: 50 - 2800 eV
Energy: 50 - 2800 eV
Principal Beamline Scientist
Georg Held
Georg Held is the Principal Beamline Scientist for B07, the versatile soft x-ray (VERSOX) beamline. Georg has a joint appointment between Diamond and the University of Reading.
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778480
B-Branch
Dave Grinter
Dave is a Beamline Scientist on B07 with primary responsibility for B branch (high-throughput NEXAFS and XPS). He previously worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and University College London.<...
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44 (0)1235 778988
Pilar Ferrer
Pilar is Beamline Scientist on beamline B07.
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44 (0)1235 778446
Technician
Andrew Watts
Andrew is a Senior Beamline Technician on B07.
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44 (0)1235 394029
C-Branch
Matthijs Van Spronsen
Matthijs started as a Beamline Scientist on B07 in September 2020. He previously worked as postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Harvard University.
Email: [email protected]Tel: -
Santosh Kumar
Santosh Kumar is a beamline scientist on B07 beamline, with expertise and interests in operando electrochemistry, X-ray spectroscopy, nanomaterials, and surface and interface chemistry for cle...
Email: [email protected]Tel: + 44 (0) 1235567509
On secondment to Diamond-II
Federica Venturini
Federica is the Senior Beamline Scientist for B07. She previously worked at the ESRF facility in Grenoble before joining Diamond as the beamline scientist for I09.
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778609
Cluster source
Email: User Support
Jieyi Liu
Jieyi is beamline scientist on the Structures and Surfaces Group.
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44-1235-77 8931
UHV sample preparation
Anna Juliana Kny
Anna is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on B07 beamline, working on chirally modified model catalysts.
Email: [email protected]Tel: +44 (0)12353 94100
Other team members and alumni
PhD Students
- Charlotte Hall
- James Counter
- Henry Hoddinott
- Josh Pickston
- Fraser Mealyou
Visiting Scientists
- Rosa Arrigo
- Richard Palmer
- Sven L.M. Schröder
- Rob Weatherup
Former Team Members
- Burcu Karagoz (2022-2025)
- Alex Large (2018-2024)
- Luca Abbiani (2023)
- Paul Edwards (2019-2023)
- Jodie Charlton (2019-2023)
- Yubiao Niu (2020-2022)
- Haamidah Sana (2019-2020)
- Christopher Stephens (2013-2020)
- Simran Dhaliwal (2017-2020)
- Kanak Roy (2018-2020)
- Wilson Quevedo Garzon (2018-2020)
- Rupali Uppal (2019-2020)
- Elizabeth Jones (2019)
- Rosa Arrigo (2014-2018)
- Panayiotis Tsaousis (2014-2018)
- Hadeel Hussain (2018)
- Simone Gallarati (2017-2018)
- Haosheng Feng (2018)
- Jake Seymore (2017)
- Sandra Krick Calderón (2015-2016)
- Chanan Euaruksakul (2013-2016)
- Liam Deacon (2013-2015)
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