Bruce Ravel
Lead Beamline Scientist, NSLS-II
Brookhaven National Laboratory
NSLS-II
Bldg. 743, Room 3L114
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-3613
bravel@bnl.gov
Bruce Ravel is a physicist working for the Materials Measurement Laboratory of the United States National Instiutute for Standards and Technology. Bruce is the lead beamline scientist at NIST's Beamline for Materials Measurement, beamline 6-BM at the National Synchrotron Light Source II.
BMM has two end stations, one for X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy which is managed by me, and one for X-ray Diffraction managed by our partners from IBM.
Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards | Video
Expertise
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy ... all sorts of things about X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy.
Research Activities
Bruce is interested in all aspects of the user experience at an X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy beamline, from instrumentation to data acquisition to theory and analysis. I have made some contribution over the years to almost all aspects of the XAFS experimental life cycle. These days, he focuses on improving workflows at BMM to accommodate in situ and remote experiments.
Just about everything that comes to the beamline is pretty interesting. Bruce's background is in application of XAS to problems in materials science. As a beamlne guy, he get to be something of a dilletante, so his publication record is quite diverse. Bruce has published in The Astrophysical Journal and in the Journal of Cultural Heritage!
Education
- PhD, Physics (1997) University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
- BA, Physics (1989) Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT USA
Professional Appointments
Bruce currently serves on proposal review panels for the following synchrotrons: SESAME, CHESS, and SSRL. In the past he has reviewed proposals for APS, NSLS, CLS, MAX IV, and SPring-8. He has served on beamline review panels at APS and CLS.
Bruce currenlty serves on the DSSI Advisory Council here at NSLS-II.
Selected Publications
- Ravel B, Newville M (2005) ATHENA,ARTEMIS,HEPHAESTUS: data analysis for X-ray absorption spectroscopy usingIFEFFIT. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 12:537–541. doi: 10.1107/s0909049505012719
- Ankudinov AL, Ravel B, Rehr JJ, Conradson SD (1998) Real-space multiple-scattering calculation and interpretation of x-ray-absorption near-edge structure. Physical Review B 58:7565–7576. doi: 10.1103/physrevb.58.7565
- Ravel B, Kropf AJ, Yang D, Wang M, Topsakal M, Lu D, Stennett MC, Hyatt NC (2018) Nonresonant valence-to-core x-ray emission spectroscopy of niobium. Physical Review B. doi: 10.1103/physrevb.97.125139
- Driscoll DM, White FD, Pramanik S, et al (2024) Observation of a promethium complex in solution. Nature 629:819–823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07267-6
Awards & Recognition
- Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, 2017, "For the exemplary application of a unique data analysis and visualuization system used globally by synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopists
- NSLS-II User's Executive Committee Community Service Award, 2020,
- The Internation X-ray Absorption Society Edward A. Stern Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2021
Featured Video
Recreating Glass from the Past
September 23, 2024
Bruce Ravel, a physicist in the Synchrotron Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, uses synchrotron light at NSLS-II to understand how 19th century artists created a unique shade of red glass for Bangkok’s Grand Palace. In this installment of NSLS-II Science Shorts, find out if authentic mosaic glass from the 1830s can be recreated using clues that were picked up with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
NSLS-II
Bldg. 743, Room 3L114
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-3613
bravel@bnl.gov
