Grégory Chaboussant

Grégory Chaboussant is a condensed matter physicist and Research Director at the CNRS. Since 2018 he is Deputy Director of the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB), the French Large Scale Facility of Neutron Scattering, where he oversees the LLB contributions to ESS and LLB outstations recently installed at PSI and ILL. He is member of the ICB at ESS and of the Scientific Council at ILL.

Born near Paris in 1970, Chaboussant was awarded his master's degree in solid-state physics in 1993 and subsequently earned his PhD in 1997 at the University Joseph-Fourier and the High-Magnetic Field Laboratory (Grenoble). Between 1997 and 1999, he held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the ISIS Facility (Didcot, UK). Between 2000 and 2003, he became a Junior Researcher at the University of Bern (Switzerland). In 2003, he was hired as CNRS researcher and joined the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (Saclay, France).

Over the years, his research covered quantum magnetism, low-dimensional magnetism, nanomagnetism and photomagnetism, mostly in oxides and molecular magnetic systems. He developed and performed low-temperature and high-field magnetization, low-temperature EPR, high-field NMR and neutron scattering experiments. At LLB he has been beamline scientist and was scientific responsible for the design, construction and operations of the SANS PA20 at LLB from 2010 to 2017. Throughout his career, he performed neutron scattering experiments in a wide range of facilities (ISIS, PSI, ILL, BENSC, LLB, FRM2) and actively contributed to structure and strengthen the French neutron scattering community trough actions and contributions at the national and international levels.