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News and Events
Mike James to Australian Synchrotron as Head of Science
9 January 2013
On New Years Day, the Australian Synchrotron (in Melbourne) came under the operational responsibility of ANSTO. As part of this change, Mike James moves today to the Synchrotron for a one-year secondment as Head of Science. Mike has been instrument scientist for our PLATYPUS reflectometer, right from the beginning, and his instrument-scientist role on PLATYPUS has been backfilled by Anton Le Brun, who has been a postdoctoral fellow with the National Deuteration Facility for the last three years.
For more detail on the changes at the Australian Synchrotron, see ANSTO's media release. We wish both Mike and Anton the best in their new roles.
Century of research papers from ECHIDNA
4 January 2013
Today, OPAL's ECHIDNA High-Resolution Powder Diffractometer passed an important milestone with the publication of its hundredth research paper. ECHIDNA produced forty of these papers in 2012. Congratulations to instrument scientists Max Avdeev and James Hester, who have led this effort and who are co-authors on many of ECHIDNA's papers.