About me
Laurent Chapon is the Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory. He also directs the Advanced Photon Source (APS), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at Argonne, and the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) project. The APS provides ultrabright X-ray beams that researchers use to probe structures and dynamics inside many types of materials, chemical systems, and biological systems. More than 5,500 scientists each year use the APS to spur pivotal discoveries across almost the entire spectrum of science and technology, from clean energy and biology to geology and engineering.
As part of Argonne’s senior management team, Chapon is leading the APS through a time of extraordinary change. The APS has recently been upgraded to provide X-ray beams up to 500 times brighter than the original machine, enabling innovations and discoveries that will open new frontiers in science, improve our daily lives and keep the United States at the forefront of global hard X-ray science. Chapon has played pivotal roles in transformative projects at other large scale user facilities, both neutron sources and light sources, in the UK and in France.