Robert McGreevy

Robert McGreevy has been director of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, since 2012, and is the current chair of the League of Advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS). Robert plays a leading role in the development of the LENS Vision/Landscape Document, a 30-year roadmap for neutron scattering in Europe that is a deliverable of BrightnESS², Work Package 2. 

Robert graduated and received his PhD from Oxford University and was a Royal Society research fellow and lecturer there until 1992. Before leading ISIS, Robert served as deputy associate lab director of the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, and served as head of the Diffraction Division at ISIS. Prior to this he was director of the Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory at Uppsala University, Sweden. While leading the ISIS Facility, McGreevy was the first coordinator of the highly successful EU-sponsored NMI3 consortium, which ran from 2012-2016, and was succeeded by the EU project SINE2020.

Robert is the author of over 180 research papers in the fields of neutron scattering and computer modelling, where his research specialised in studies of the structures of all types of disordered materials, from high temperature superconductors to liquid metal alloys. He has a special interest in software development and pioneered the now widely used reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) techniques of structural modelling.