Martin Boehm

Martin Boehm is an instrument scientist in the spectroscopy group of Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. In recent years, he has gradually become more involved in joint European projects of the neutron user community. He replaced Mark Johnson as coordinator of the SINE2020 project (Science and Innovation with Neutrons in Europe, finished in September 2019) and since March 2020, also in the FILL2030 project (Future of the ILL beyond 2030, a Horizon 2020 project which addresses, among other things, business models that could best supports the neutron users community).

In BrightnESS² he takes officially part in Work Package 2, where he participated in the setting-up of a pilot project (Task 2.3) with the aim to explore and implement efficient ways of neutron usage between the participating neutron facilities. He is also a co-organiser of the i2ns workshop – Innovative Inelastic Neutron Scattering, supported by BrightnESS², which is planned to take place in 2021.

Martin obtained his PhD in physics at the ETH Zurich for the studies of magnetic excitations in a cuprate system. After a short period as a post-doc at the CEA Grenoble, he started to work as an instrument scientist on the cold three-axis spectrometer IN14 at the ILL in 2004. He participated as scientific project leader in the complete refurbishment of IN14, becoming the new spectrometer ThALES, which was commissioned and integrated into the ILL user programme in 2015. Motivated to permanently improve the scientific possibilities of his instrument, he recently enlarged his interests on pure hard-ware instrumentation to the testing and implementation of modern algorithms, with the aim of accelerating the data acquisition and interpretation.

His scientific interests are closely related to the science case of cold neutron spectrometers, especially studying magnetic excitations in low-dimensional systems, and more recently the dynamics of correlated electronic systems.