Facility Access Panels
ISIS operates ten Facility Access Panels (FAPs) to peer review all beamtime proposals
Panels convene twice a year, in June and December, to review proposals. Each proposal is assessed and ranked on a scale from 10 (world class) to 1 (unsatisfactory).
The conduct of panel members is governed by the Seven Principles of Public Life established by the UK Government. Full details of the review process are outlined in the panel guidelines, which are provided to all members ahead of each meeting.
Panel members are required to declare any conflicts of interest and must withdraw from discussions relating to proposals from their own departments or any with which they have a personal or professional connection.
List of access panels
| FAP | Description | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| FAP 1 Crystallography | Structural studies across a broad range of physical science areas | Iain Oswald (University of Strathclyde) and Stefan Süllow (Technische Universität Braunschweig) |
| FAP2 Disordered Materials | Structural studies on liquids and disordered materials, again across a broad range of science areas | Gosia Swadzba-Kwasny (Queen’s University Belfast) |
| FAP4 Excitations | Magnetism and superconductivity primarily, along with functional materials, focusing on the magnetic, electronic or structural excitations | Jason Gardner (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
| FAP5 Molecular Spectroscopy | Spectroscopy in chemical, materials science and bio-science systems primarily, including catalysis | Maths Karlsson (Chalmers University of Technology) |
| FAP6 Muons | Muon studies across a broad range of physical and chemical science areas | Tom Lancaster (Durham University) |
| FAP7 Engineering | Engineering studies, mainly stress/strain and texture mapping in engineering components | James Marrow (University of Oxford) |
| FAP8 Small Angle Scattering | Probing length scales from the nm to the µm, with applications in studies of polymers, biological molecules, nanoparticles, microemulsions and liposomes | Emily Draper (University of Glasgow) |
| FAP9 Reflectometry | Structures of thin films, from materials science through to soft matter and bioscience | David Bucknell (Heriot-Watt University) |
| FAP10 Chip Irradiation | Rapid testing of high energy neutron effects in microelectronics | Paolo Rech (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) |
| FA11 Cultural Heritage | Objects with historical, ancient and/or cultural relevance and the development and evaluation of conservation methods | Gilberto Artioli (Università di Padova) |
