DIFFRACTION GROUP

Gerry Lander

Physicist, PhD

  
Scientitst
  
e-mail:lander@ill.fr
Room:OS1-ILL17
Phone: 
FAX:+33 (0)4.76.20.76.48
  

Overview

Gerry retired at the end of 2005 as Director of the Institute for Transuranium Elements (an European Commission Laboratory) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and is now living in Grenoble. He has returned to doing science, at least part time!
His main interests are centered on the science of actinide (5f electrons) elements and compounds. He has used neutrons, both elastic and inelastic, and synchrotron x-rays.
He obtained his Ph. D at Cambridge University (with Jane Brown as supervisor!) many years ago and worked for 20 years at Argonne National Laboratory, where for the last 5 years (1981-1986) he was Director of the IPNS source. After that he went to ITU and spent 16 years there doing science before he again fell into administration. He has published over 400 papers, many from the ILL, where he first came on sabbatical in 1976. He has used, and published, from 16 instruments at the ILL, which if not a record might be close!
He was also the founding Editor of Neutron News, and did that job from 1989-2000.

Selected Publications