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 Position Paper 2025
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
ENSA Prizes awarded at the ICNS 2025
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…
Rendering the European neutron research landscape
The article “Rendering the European neutron research landscape” is now published in Nature Scientific Report and available online. It reports on a new semi-supervised learning method to render the European neutron community of scientists and “tell where neutron-scattering scientists are, and what they do”. Evgenii Velichko and Lambert van Eijck at the TU Delft Reactor…
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Welcome to Finland
30 April 2024: The ENSA board expresses a warm welcome to Finland as a new member of the European neutron scientist community! Finland will be represented by Paavo Penttilä from the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. The decision was taken during the second ENSA in-person meeting after the Covid break, which…
Astrid Schneidewind elected as new chair of ENSA
At the ENSA meeting held on November 15th 2023 at PSI in Switzerland, Dr. Astrid Schneidewind was elected chair of ENSA. Dr Schneidewind is instrument scientist of PANDA, a cold three axis spectrometer located at MLZ and operated by FZ Jülich. She takes over the role of ENSA chair after Prof Henrik Rønnow. The ENSA…
ENSA-ESUO Joint Meeting held at PSI
On 13-14 November 2023, ENSA and ESUO (European Synchrotron User Organization) held a joint meeting in conjunction with a meeting on European data policy organized by the DAPHNE4NFDI (DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments) project. DAPHNE4NFDI, a German initiative, works on promoting collaborations between users and facilities of the European Photon and Neutron community to…
Stefano Deledda elected as new vice-chair
At the ENSA meeting held during the ECNS2023, Dr. Stefano Deledda was elected ENSA vice-chair. Dr Stefano Deledda is a senior scientist at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Norway and takes over the vice-chair role after Dr. Lambert van Eijck. The ENSA board would like to thank Lambert for his invaluable contribution as…