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Simon Billinge

Physicist

Born in: United Kingdom
Simon Billinge

Simon Billinge is a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and a professor at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Before joining Columbia he served as a professor and astronomy in Michigan State University’s department of physics. Billinge holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014, he was named a fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America in recognition of his \"seminal contributions to the field of local structure and nanostructure studies using atomic pair distribution function methods and [his] impact on the field of neutron diffraction. Updated 2014

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