"The award highlights the importance of developing algorithms and making them available in open source software to enable efficient analysis of experimental data. I have been contributing to this for the past 20 years for powder diffraction, resonant diffraction, and now for the coherent X-ray imaging data so important for the operation of fourth generation synchrotron sources, at ESRF and soon at Soleil. I am pleased to see that even long after their release (Fox), these software packages are still widely used by the community" explains Vincent Favre-Nicolin.
Vincent Favre-Nicolin is currently a lecturer at the University of Grenoble Alpes, on detachment at ESRF. Vincent Favre-Nicolin is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds an agrégation in physics. He began his career working on anomalous scattering problems, for which he is one of the world's leading specialists. Vincent Favre-Nicolin then developed, notably during a stay at the University of Geneva, algorithms for the determination of ab initio structure from powder diffraction diagrams. This work led to the development of the free software FOX, which is still widely used in the community.