Diamond Annual Review 2023/24

80 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 3 / 2 4 D iamond Light Source Ltd was established in 2002 as a joint venture limited company funded by the UK Government via the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), nowunder UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), and by theWellcome Trust, owning 86%and 14%of the shares respectively. Diamond now employs 831 scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff from 44 countries worldwide. The Chief Executive and Directors are advised by committees representing key stakeholder groups, including the Science Advisory Committee (SAC), Diamond Industrial Science Committe (DISCo) and Diamond User Committee (DUC). Diamond is free at the point of access for researchers accessing Diamond via peer review, and provided the results are published in the public domain for everyone’s benefit. Allocation of beamtime is via a peer review process to select proposals on the basis of scientific merit and technical feasibility. Twelve peer review panels meet twice a year to assess the proposals submitted for each six-month allocation period. Diamond also welcomes industrial researchers through a range of access modes including proprietary research. Board of Directors Prof. Sir Adrian Smith (Chairman) Prof. Gianluigi Botton Dr Morag Foreman Prof. Michael Fitzpatrick Dr Alan Partridge AndreaWard Prof. KeithWilson Company Secretary Linda Gregory As of April 2024 Governance andManagement Dr AdrianMancuso joined Diamond in November 2022 from the European XFEL facility, where he has held the position of Group Leader and Leading Scientist for the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules and Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument group since 2010. As Physical Science Director, Adrian is responsible for overall strategic leadership, direction andmanagement of Diamond’s Physical Science Division. AndreaWard joined Diamond Light Source in 2019, with 15 years experience as a senior finance professional, and is chief financial officer (CFO). During a 12-year tenure at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, she worked with the Board to lead finance and procurement functions in Europe, later moving to Canada with the business to assist with acquisition and commercialisation opportunities. Andrea has also worked at ResMed and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming corporation. Executive Prof. Gianluigi Botton joined Diamond Light Source as CEO in 2023 from the Canadian Light Source, where he had served as Science Director since May 2019. Professor Botton is a renowned expert inmicroscopy and spectroscopy and has more than 350 peer- reviewed publications. His work has been citedmore than 34,000 times. Prof. RichardWalker joined Diamond Light Source as Technical Director in January 2002. He was previously Director of the Light Sources Division at Sincrotrone Trieste in Italy, and prior to that he was a key member of the Daresbury Laboratory SRS team. Richard is a visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Prof. Sir David Stuart is MRC Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, and Joint Head of the Division of Structural Biology at the Department of Clinical Medicine. He was appointed Director of Life Sciences at Diamond in 2008. His principal research interests include the structure of viruses and viral proteins as well as cellular proteins, especially those that interact with viruses. Dave was knighted in the NewYear Honours list 2021 for services to medical research and the scientific community.