Category: General

ENSA has voted to change its name to the European Neutron Science Association (from the European Neutron Scattering Association) at its recent meeting of delegates at the Budapest Neutron Centre in Hungary. The Chair and twelve delegates were present in person while three delegates joined online. Stefano Deladda, Lars Bannenberg, Paavo Penttilä, Natalie Malikova, Marie…

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ENSA has published its Position Paper on the status and future of neutron scattering in Europe: https://ensa-neutron.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ENSA-position-paper_2025_print.pdf

The award ceremonies for the ENSA prizes were held during the ICNS2025 in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Lund (Sweden) on 6-10 July 2025. ENSA and the European Crystallographic Association jointly awarded the 2025 Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize sponsored by MIRROTRON to Dalila Bounoua for her outstanding contribution to the field of novel magnetism in high…

The ENSA Awards for 3 Prizes for 2021 are held in 2022. Information can be found on the websites of the Walter Hälg Prize (sponsored by SwissNeutronics), the Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize (shared between ECA and ENSA) and the Neutron Instrumentation and Innovation Award (sponsored by Mirrotron)

The QENS/WINS 2020 Conference will be celebrated in San Sebastian (Spain), from June 8 to June 12, 2020.  This event will constitute the 14th Edition of the QENS series and the 9th of the WINS workshops. The main purpose of QENS 2020 is to cover the broad spectrum of scientific activities related with the investigation of dynamical…

JCNS is glad to announce the JCNS Workshop “Trends and Perspectives in Neutron Scattering” that  will take place in Tutzing (Germany) on the shores of the Starnberg lake, from October 13 – 16, 2020.  The conference is organized by the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Forschungszentrum Jülich. As a unique probe for studying magnetism, neutron scattering matches the…

The ENSA delegates have gathered in Sorbonne University, Paris for the election of the new Chair of ENSA. We are very proud 🙂 to announce that prof. Henrik Rønnow is elected as our new Chair! Henrik has been very actively involved in the business of ENSA of the last years and we look forward to…

The planned closure of the Orphee reactor at Laboratoire Leon Brillouin in Saclay, Paris since a few days means the loss of a great piece of research infrastructure in neutron scattering science. The expertise of the staff involved is of course maintained and applied but training future neutron scientists cannot be done anymore at this…