Yves Petroff is a French scientist and the former director of the

Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (; LNLS) is the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, a research institution on physics, chemistry, material science and life sciences. It is located in the city of Campinas, sub-district of Barão Gera ...

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, Brazil, where he oversaw the completion of

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, among the first

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s to feature a

diffraction-limited storage ring Diffraction-limited storage rings (DLSR), or ultra-low emittance storage rings, are synchrotron light sources where the emittance of the electron-beam in the storage ring is smaller or comparable to the emittance of the x-ray photon beam they prod ...

. Petroff completed his PhD at the Ecole normale supérieure, before becoming a

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Fellow in the Department of Physics at the

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from 1971 to 1974. He then moved back to France in

Orsay Orsay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. A fortifie ...

to start the first beamline on the ACO storage ring. In 1976 he became a senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at

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, and was the director of the LURE synchrotron from 1980 to 1990. In 1993 he became the scientific director of the

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(ESRF) until 2001. From 2003 to 2005 he was the president of the

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(IUPAP) and deputy director in the French Ministry of Research. He has been the Scientific Director of LNLS in Campinas, Brazil from 2009 to 2013, and became director of LNLS in 2018.

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