Science Advisory Committee

The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) advises the CEO and the Science Directors on the scientific and technical questions impacting on the specification, design, commissioning and operation of the facility; experimental and user support facilities; opportunities for scientific exploitation of the facility and other matters identified by the Diamond Executive. The SAC Membership from the May 2024 SAC meeting is as follows:

• Dr Tom Hase (Chair), University of Warwick (UK)
• Prof Kristina Djinović-Carugo (Vice-Chair), EMBL Grenoble (France)
• Dr Paul Adams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)
• Dr Elke Arenholz, Pacific North Western Laboratory (USA)
• Prof Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA)
• Dr Dina Carbone, MAX IV (Sweden)
• Prof Peter Dowding, Infineum (DISCo Representative)
• Prof Chris Hardacre, University of Manchester (UK)
• Prof Phil King, University of St Andrew (UK)
• Dr Sylvia Ramos-Perez, Univeristy of Kent (UK) (Chair of the DUC)
• Prof Matt Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool (UK)
• Prof Andrea Russell, University of Southampton (UK) 
• Prof Christian Schroer, DESY (Germany)
• Prof Stephen Skinner, Imperial College London (UK) 
• Prof Xiaodong Zhang, Imperial College London (UK) 
• Prof Elizabeth Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)