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Bruce Ravel

NSLS-II

Bruce Ravel

Brookhaven National Laboratory

NSLS-II
Bldg. 743, Room 3L114
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3613
bravel@bnl.gov

I am a physicist working for the Materials Measurement Laboratory of the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology

I am the Lead Beamline Scientist for 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

Expertise

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy.  I know all sorts of things about XAS.

Research Activities

I am 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, I am focused on improving workflows at BMM to accommodate in situ and remote experiments.

Just about everything that comes to the beamline is pretty interesting.  My background is in application of XAS to problems in materials science.  As a beamlne guy, I get to be something of a dilletante, so my publication record is quite diverse.  I have 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

I am on proposal review panels for the following synchrotrons:

  • MAX-IV
  • SESAME
  • CHESS
  • SSRL
  • SPring-8 (English language proposals only)

I am currenlty working with the NSLS-II Remote Experiment Task Force to come up with facility wide preparations for a future where remote and mail-in access to the synchrotron is much more common.

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
Bruce Ravel

Brookhaven National Laboratory

NSLS-II
Bldg. 743, Room 3L114
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3613
bravel@bnl.gov

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