Daniel Bowron
Group leader

Daniel Bowron is the leader of the ISIS Disordered Materials Group and supports the science programmes and technical development of GEM and SANDALS on ISIS Target Station 1, and NIMROD on Target Station 2. Prior to taking this role, he was the instrument scientist for SANDALS and the project scientist responsible for the development of the Near and InterMediate Range Order Diffractometer (NIMROD).

Daniel’s research interests are focussed on understanding the atomic and mesoscale structure of liquids and glasses using neutron and/or X-ray radiation as the experimental probe, and computational methods to invert the experimental data into three-dimensional atomistic models. His expertise includes neutron and X-ray scattering, Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy and both classical and reverse Monte Carlo simulation methods. Illustrative examples of much of this research can be found in his review on using X-ray and neutron methods to investigate metal ion solvation and solution structure.

Amongst his currently active research projects, Daniel is involved in the development of wide Q-range neutron scattering methods for application to:

1. Structural and kinetic studies of heterogeneous catalytic processe​s
2. The structure and behaviour of fluids in nanoscale confinement
3. The atomistic details of the structure of micelles and in-solution self-assembly