John Weisend is currently a Senior Accelerator Engineer at The European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Lund University. He received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he investigated engineering applications of He II. He has worked at the SSC Laboratory; the Centre D’Etudes Nucleaires Grenoble; the Deutsches Elecktronen-Synchrotron Laboratory (DESY); the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC); the National Science Foundation; and Michigan State University. Professor Weisend’s research interests include He II and large-scale accelerator cryogenics. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cryogenic Society of America (CSA). He has led the CSA Short Course Programme since 2001. He is Chief Technical Editor of Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. In addition to coauthoring more than 80 technical papers, Professor Weisend is the author of He is for Helium, as well as the co-author of Cryogenic Two-Phase Flow and Cryogenic Safety. He is the editor of the Handbook of Cryogenic Engineering and of Cryostat Design. He writes a regular column, “Cryo Bios”, for the publication Cold Facts and is a member of both the Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Engineering Conference Boards.
The European Spallation Source (ESS), nearing completion, will be a state-of-the-art research facility for probing materials with neutrons. [...] ESS is not only a large science project but a new laboratory built on a “green field” site. [...] . Documenting this endeavor to build not only a large science facility but also a new laboratory provided a prime motivation for this book. [...] The authors essentially provide a series of detailed design reports about all things cryogenic at ESS. [...] A valuable feature of the book is an organizational pattern common to each chapter. [...] The depth of information is most impressive. [...] The scope of information provided will make Cryogenic Technologies at the European Spallation Source a valuable reference for scientific project managers while also providing a wealth of technical information about ESS cryogenics and large-scale cryogenic systems. -- Tom Peterson * Cold Facts, Cryogenic Society of America *