Management and Core Team

Resident Beamline Staff

Didier Wermeille

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Laurence Bouchenoire

Oier Bikondoa

Paul Thompson

Olga Filamonova

Edgar Gutierrez Fernandez

UK Based Staff - Liverpool

Chris Lucas

Yvonne Gruender

John Kervin

UK Based Staff - Warwick

Thomas Hase

I specialise in applying x-ray scattering and spectroscopy to the study of materials and joined the University of Warwick in 2006. I obtained my Ph. D. from the University of Durham for the studies of thin metallic films using x-ray reflectivity. During my subsequent post-doctoral studies I developed soft x-ray scattering for the study of magnetic materials with particular emphasis on the nature of the interface structure and its correlation with observed magnetic properties.

My research interests span a wide range of materials from amorphous metals to single crystals as well as the structure of soft matter. However, magnetic materials and thin films in particular have remained my prime research focus. My recent work has included the development of medium energy x-ray scattering as well as developing new experimental strategies to explore patterned materials. I work closely with the department of materials at the University of Uppsala and conduct much of my research at central facilities including ESRF, NSLS, APS, ISIS, Diamond and BESSY.

I am one of the co-directors of the XMaS beamline located at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France which is a multi-disciplinary materials science facility funded directly by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council.

Malcolm Cooper

Malcolm Cooper was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and then held research fellowships at Clare Hall/Cavendish Laboratory before moving to Warwick University in 1970, where he continued Compton scattering studies of electron density distributions with x-rays and gamma rays. Then, in the 1980s, he developed Compton scattering studies of spin magnetisation in ferromagnets with circularly polarised synchrotron radiation.

In the early 1990s ESRF decided to offer, on a competitive basis, some of the ring’s bending magnets as x-ray sources to consortia from their European partners. Malcolm Cooper at Warwick University and Bill Stirling at Keele University joined forces to set up a small project team to design a bending magnet beamline, principally for diffraction studies of magnetic materials, which later came to be known as the XMaS beamline using Research Council funds. The project was awarded a slot on the ring at BM28; construction started in early 1996 and the beamline opened to users in September 1997. Together with Bill Stirling, then at Liverpool, and his successor, Chris Lucas, Malcolm continued to co-direct the project until he stepped down from his role as Head of Physics in 2010. In the meantime XMaS has continued to receive regular EPSRC funding and celebrated its 25^th anniversary as a user facility in 2022.