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Brian Kirby (Fed)
Group Leader, Research Facility Operations, NCNR
Leads the NCNR Research Facility Operations (RFO) group of 40+ scientists, technicians, and engineers that develop, maintain, and support advanced neutron instrumentation and associated technology for the research reactor facility on the NIST campus. Specifically, RFO is responsible for NCNR's
- 18 neutron scattering instruments – mechanical design, shielding, electronics, and control software
- Sample environment and beam polarization capabilities
- Research laboratories
- User proposal coordination
- Information technology
- Coordination of conventional infrastructure work
Is an experimental condensed matter physicist with 16 years of experience as a neutron scattering instrument scientist. Has an h-index > 40, with more than 125 publications.
Awards
2012 NIST Bronze Medal, "For the elucidation of complex magnetic coupling in ferromagnetic, semiconducting multilayers using innovative polarized neutron reflectivity methods"