News

    • New Website for Experiment Proposal Submission
      Submission of experiment proposals on the 2FDN CRG instruments will now be done through the new Phoenix website, starting with the next call (deadline March 15): please create an account on the new Phoenix portal using the same email address you use for the ILL User Club.
    • FAN 2026
      The Annual Neutron Training (FAN) will take place at ILL Grenoble from June 23 to 25, 2026. This is a practical training course (lectures and lab sessions), organized by 2FDN on its CRG instruments, in collaboration with ILL. The training is intended for researchers at any level (PhD students, postdocs, and more broadly, any researcher) wishing to get started or familiarize themselves with experimental techniques used in neutron scattering for condensed matter. It will include a “hard matter” track and a second “soft matter” track. Registrations will open on the dedicated web page from March 1st to May 13th, 2026.
    • Franco-German Round Table
      France, represented by the French Physical Society, will be the guest country at the German Physical Society spring conference, which will take place from March 8 to 13, 2026, in Dresden, with numerous French guests. The 2FDN has been invited to co-organize a round table on Franco-German collaboration in neutron scattering, with several representatives from the centers (LLB, ILL, JCNS, MLZ), as well as SFN and KFN. This round table is organized by the “Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics.” section and will take place on Wednesday, March 11.
    • Neutron Science Booth at the “Matériaux 2026” Conference
      A booth on neutron science, shared among all French neutron science actors (LLB, SFN, 2FDN, ILL), is planned at the Materials 2026 conference (https://materiaux2026.org/), the major French quadrennial forum in the field of materials. Volunteers to help staff this booth are welcome! Contact: casfn_l@ill.fr, federation.neutron@neel.cnrs.fr
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Prochains appels à propositions :

  • 2FDN : 15 mars 2026
  • SANS-LLB via la 2FDN : 15 mai 2026

Scientific Highlight of the Month

Revealed fragility of extremophiles bacteria

Understanding the adaptation mechanisms of cells to extreme environments is challenging due to the high complexity of such systems. Neutron scattering is a well suited technique to investigate the proteome inside the cells under different external conditions and to answer the question: are extremophiles adapted in the same way to heat and cold ?

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Job offers

If you have a job offer, please feel free to send it to us, and we will share it !

  • The New Frontiers in Quantum Materials (NFMQ) group and Biology and Soft Matter (MMB) group at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB) are hiring. Three permamnent positions are available with an expected start date in September 2026 (deadline for application on March 30th):
      1. Researcher – “Exploration of Quantum Systems” : Details and application here (contacts Françoise Damay and Xavier Fabrèges)
      2. Crystal Growth Engineer (M/F) : Details and application here (contacts Françoise Damay and Xavier Fabrèges)
      3. Researcher “Spectroscopy”: Details and application here (contacts Stephane Longeville and Fabrice Cousin)

  • The MEM (Laboratoire Modélisation et Exploration des Matériaux) is seeking to strengthen its Magnetism and Neutron Diffraction team and is opening a permanent position for a Research Physicist, responsible for the neutron scattering instrument CRG-D23 (CRG-CEA at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble). The job offer can be consulted here.


      1. Visualization of hydrogen atoms in carbohydrate binding proteins (post-doctoral research fellowship)
      2. Neutron plus X-ray tomography of plants and bio-structures (post-doctoral research fellowship)
      3. Macromolecular crystallography (research scientist)

Upcoming Events

Voir aussi https://neutronsources.org/calendar.html.

Publications of the month

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