Matthias Dietrich Frontzek is an instrument scientist at the WAND² diffractometer at the High-Flux-Isotope reactor.
The topic of his thesis, under his supervisor Michael Loewenhaupt, was the magnetic properties of R2PdSi3 compounds. To investigate the magnetic structure Matthias used neutron scattering, in particular the E2 instrument at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
Matthias is the chair of the high-temperature-sample-environment committee, is part of the US-Japan cooperative research program on neutron scattering and co-organizer of the National Neutron and X-ray scattering school.
Matthias grew up in Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse, Germany and is now living with his wife and two daughters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.