NLF WG 5 Leader, Food Structure and Health, LINXS Fellow

Dr Gregory Smith is a SANS instrument scientist at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the UK. Gregory is a physical chemist by training and obtained degrees in Chemistry from the University of Bristol (UK), followed by positions at the University of Sheffield (UK) and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Gregory’s research explores the interactions and self-assembly of soft matter and colloids, such as surfactants, polymers, and nanoparticles, using scattering and isotopic labelling to understand their structure from the ångström to the micrometre scale.

Gregory is responsible for Larmor at ISIS, a flexible instrument optimised for Larmor precession techniques. The instrument can be operated in many modes: as a conventional or polarised small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) instrument, as a spin-echo SANS (SESANS) instrument (which extends the length scales that can be studied up to micrometres), or as a modulated-intensity (MISANS) instrument (which allows dynamics to be studied). These modes are all highly suited to addressing a range of issues in food science.