Joël Francois Mesot
Professor
Department of Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
In 2007 Joël Mesot received the Titel of ETH-Zurich Professor. In 2008 he was named full Professor for Physics at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne. Joël Mesot, born in Geneva studied physics at ETH Zurich. After receiving his diploma, he performed his PhD on high-temperature superconductors. During his thesis work he spent 2 years at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL/France). Between 1992 and 1997 he conceived and co-realized the time-of-flight spectrometer FOCUS at the neutron spallation source SINQ of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). He then spent two years at the Argonne National Laboratory (USA) to perform angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments, before taking over the neutron spectroscopy group at PSI. Since 2004 he is heading the Laboratory for Neutron Scattering of ETH Zurich and PSI. Since August 2008 he is Direcotr of PSI.
Research Interest
Quantum magnetism; ARPES experiments
