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Technology

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Find out more about the staff that keep ISIS running, and our upcoming Major Projects.

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Major projects and our technical work

  • Long Shutdown Updates
    Stay up to date with the latest updates from the engineering projects happening during the ISIS long shutdown.
  • Jacob Simms and Katie Mordecai putting the lid back on and tightening the bolts.
    Major Instrument and Accelerator Projects at ISIS
    ISIS Neutron and Muon Source has an ongoing programme of developments to ensure the continuation of cutting edge science.
  • Technical Highlights
    Our Technical Highlight articles cover the diverse engineering projects that take place at our facility.
  • Design of new instrument
    The ISIS Endeavour Programme – User Meetings
    Recordings are now available for our recent user community meetings, to learn more about the programme of large instrument upgrades and new instrument builds that we hope to carry out at ISIS over the next few years.

Technical teams

  • Sarah Fisher, Diagnostics software section leader
    Accelerators and Targets
    Specialist teams of physicists, engineers and technicians work hard to ensure that the production of neutron beams operates reliably at optimum efficiency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Computing apprentice Benjamin Edwards and computing graduate Sophie Kirkham
    Computing
    Specialist computing is developed and supported for the community by various ISIS groups
  • Cryogenics Team
    The cryogenics team at ISIS are responsible for superconducting magnets and low-temperature equipment.
  • Meet the Cryogenics Team 2021
    We sat down and spoke to 5 members of our award-winning Cryogenics team to find out what life is like as a member of the team.
  • ISIS Detector group
    Meet the Detector Group 2022
    We sat down with three members of the ISIS Detector Group to find out what life is like as a member of the team.
  • Pressure and Furnace Team
    The pressure and furnace section are a small team of five technicians providing technical support for sample environment equipment to the Neutron user community

Working at ISIS

  • Engineering and technician careers at ISIS
    We employ engineers and technicians across many different disciplines, including electrical, electronics, mechanical and across operations, design and build and project management.