Dr. Richard Heenan started
at ISIS in 1984, recruited to complete the construction of LOQ the first SANS
(Small Angle Neutron Scattering) beam line at the ISIS Facility. He is now
widely regarded as a global expert in the fields of small angle scattering
instrumentation, SANS data reduction and fitting, with contributions to over 300
scientific publications.
Richard was the lead
scientist for the SANS2d beam line on the ISIS second target station, and was
involved with the initial proposals and designs for the ZOOM beam line. His
much used “Fish” software for SANS data fitting has now largely been superseded
by Sasview.
Since 1995 Richard has been
involved in many meetings and technical panels for time-of-flight SANS at the
European Spallation Source (ESS), and was chair of the SANS STAP (Science &
Technical Advisory Panel) from 2012 to 2015.
Richard has been partially
retired since Feb 2016, working 2 days a week. Part of his time is to support
the design and construction by STFC, in collaboration with the ESS, of the LoKI
SANS beam line at the ESS. He is also much involved with the maintenance and
development of the Sasview fitting software (https://www.sasview.org/), which
is an international, open source project. He also provides advice and expertise
to the ISIS team, scientific collaborators, and external projects such as the
SANS beam lines at the Chinese Spallation source.