Sylvain Ravy

Sylvain Ravy is a Research Director at the CNRS. He completed his PhD in 1988 at the Laboratory of Solid State Physics, CNRS/Paris-Saclay University; his thesis focused on studies of disordered molecular systems using diffuse X-ray scattering. He then joined the same laboratory as a CNRS Research Fellow. From 1995 to 1997, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a user of the ALS synchrotron at Berkeley, conducting research in surface physics. On his return to France, he became involved in the SOLEIL synchrotron project, where he was seconded for 11 years, from 2004 to 2014, to head the CRISTAL diffraction beamline. In 2015, he was appointed Director of the Laboratory of Solid State Physics, and since 2021 he has held the position of Assistant Scientific Director at CNRS Physics, with responsibility for research infrastructure.