Faces
Newcomers:
Dr Stephen Holt recently joined our time-of-flight neutron reflectometer (Platypus) team, having acted in an equivalent role at the ISIS spallation source in the UK.
Dr Nicolas de Souza joined us from the Juelich Centre for Neutron Science at the FRM-II Reactor in Munich, to lead our effort for EMU, a high-resoloution (1meV) back scattering spectrometer at OPAL.
Dr Phil Bentley joined our team, as part of the $37M NBI-2 Neutron Beam Expansion Project. Phil joins us from the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble, France.
Kate Piccirillo is a trainee administrative assistant within the User Office and NBI-2 Project. Kate recently completed her HSC studies at Oak Flats High School.
Craig Hughes, Jason Christoforidis, Trevor Randall and Andrew Eltobaji joined the Bragg Institute NBI-2 Project from Campus Services and David Howes from ANSTO Procurement.
Departures:
Tracey Hanley spent 5 years with the Bragg Institute as the X-ray instrument scientist. In this role she managed the purchase, installation and operation of the X-ray instruments located within the Bragg Institute Neutron Guide Hall. Tracey is now with the ANSTO Institute of Materials Engineering, leading their Separation Science program.
Annemieke Mulders, Bragg Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology, has accepted a faculty position with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Annemieke commenced her Bragg Research Fellowship, at the Department of Imaging and Applied Physics in May 2006. We wish her well in her new position and hope to see her regularly!