Ralph Gilles

Research & Skills

I am a physicist and heading the research group “Advanced Materials” with expertise in neutron scattering methods for studying energy materials as high-temperature alloys and batteries. At FRM II, I was working as an instrument scientist to design, built and brought in commission the structure powder diffractometer SPODI and the small-angle scattering instrument SANS-1 dedicated for materials science and magnetism at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in Garching, near Munich, Germany. In my group methods as diffraction, small-angle scattering, imaging, neutron depth profiling and neutron induced prompt gamma activation analysis are applied mainly for alloy and battery research. I authored over 190 peer-reviewed articles (37 as first author) on topics ranging from instrumentation at large scale facilities, alloy development, thin films, ceramics over to in-situ and operando studies on batteries. Furthermore, I am the industrial coordinator for industrial use of scientific instruments at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum.

• neutron and X-ray diffraction
• small-angle neutron scattering
• neutron depth profiling
• and more methods