Take a tour of the Diamond Light Source

‘I thought working here would be really exciting … I was absolutely blown away by the science.’ Andrew Harrison grins as he recalls his visit to the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in 2013, a visit that led to him being appointed as the facility’s chief executive just a few months later.

Based in Harwell, UK, Diamond provides researchers with intense beams of light to explore the world in atomic detail. Harrison is clearly proud of its work. ‘We’ve just completed 10 years of operating, going from the first user arriving to having 9000 user visits, and some of our beamlines are the best in the world.’