Bianca Haberl
Bianca Haberl is a High Pressure Neutron Scattering Scientist in the Neutron Scattering Division. In this role, she grows and fosters the high pressure neutron scattering science program across both SNS and HFIR. She identifies and implements innovative research directions. She achieves this through developing and advancing scientific capabilities by working collaboratively with beamline teams and users, as well as through her own scientific endeavors focused on studying novel functional materials recovered from high pressure conditions. Additionally, she coordinates outreach activities to both existing and new user communities, most notably serving the broader neutron scattering community since 2017 as director of the Neutron School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering.
Bianca’s desire to answer scientific questions, coupled with her interest in exploring the world, started with her research in Germany and Australia on the high-pressure behavior of various types of amorphous silicon. After a colleague’s suggestion to investigate further using neutrons, she visited ORNL as a user, which led to her successfully applying for a Weinberg Fellowship and joining ORNL in 2014.
Bianca is passionate about education and outreach. Every year, the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering educates 60 bright graduate students from across North America on the use of neutron and X-ray scattering. As the director of the school, she truly enjoys seeing the students engage, discuss, ask questions, thrive, and even return as users.
In her free time, Bianca loves reading, gardening, camping in nature and exploring the world on long hikes.
Bianca’s desire to answer scientific questions, coupled with her interest in exploring the world, started with her research in Germany and Australia on the high-pressure behavior of various types of amorphous silicon. After a colleague’s suggestion to investigate further using neutrons, she visited ORNL as a user, which led to her successfully applying for a Weinberg Fellowship and joining ORNL in 2014.
Bianca is passionate about education and outreach. Every year, the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering educates 60 bright graduate students from across North America on the use of neutron and X-ray scattering. As the director of the school, she truly enjoys seeing the students engage, discuss, ask questions, thrive, and even return as users.
In her free time, Bianca loves reading, gardening, camping in nature and exploring the world on long hikes.
Since I was little, I always wanted to explore the world, to understand how things fit together. Even before starting school, I always wanted to be a researcher. I am thus absolutely thrilled that I work in a role that lets me explore the fundamental behavior of elements and materials under high pressure, that lets me see entirely new behaviors that perhaps no one else has seen before, and that allows me to explore the fundamental physics underlying our world..
I also truly enjoy collaborating, so it is a great pleasure to work together with our scientists at ORNL and our user community on tackling these various questions.”
Bianca Haberl
