Prof. Dr. Marc Janoschek has been appointed as the new Head of the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences (CNM), effective 1 June 2025.
Marc studied Physics at the Technical University of Munich and obtained his PhD at PSI and the Technical University of Munich with neutron scattering studies of chiral magnets. During this time, he also developed the neutron polarimeter “MuPAD” for the determination of complex magnetic structures, which has been available to users of the SINQ neutron source since 2007. During a two-year stay at the University of California in San Diego, he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, where he focused on the synthesis of quantum materials. Between 2011 and 2018, he headed neutron research in the Condensed Matter and Magnet Science Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2018, he returned to PSI as head of the Neutron and Muon Instrumentation Laboratory. Since 2019, he has been leading the PSI ESS project, which is contributing to five of the 15 instruments at the European Spallation Source (ESS). Since 2020, he has been Deputy Head of the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences.
Marc's scientific work focuses on the novel and functional properties of quantum materials, which he studies using neutrons, muons, and X-rays at large research facilities. His pioneering work on chiral magnets and magnetic quantum fluctuations in plutonium has been recognized with the Wolfram Prandl Prize and the Los Alamos Fellow Prize for Outstanding Research. Marc Janoschek is also a Hans Fischer Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the Technical University of Munich. In 2020, he was appointed as Associate Professor ad personam of Experimental Physics in Correlated Quantum Materials by the University of Zurich. Between 2022 and 2025, he was President of the Swiss Neutron Science Society.
We wish Marc Janoschek every success and satisfaction in his new position at PSI.