The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum or in short, the MLZ, is a cooperation between the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Jülich Centre for Neutron Scatterring (JCNS) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon. This cooperation is the scientific umbrella for the exploitation of Germany’s sole neutron source FRM II in Garching close to Munich. As such it is responsible for the installation and operation of all the positron and neutron scattering instruments installed at FRM II [1].
Besides a brief introduction of the facility at large, this presentation will focus primarily on the diffraction suite of instruments of MLZ. In particular I will highlight recent developments and upgrades in the existing instrumentation as well as new diffractometers, which will be part of the user program once the FRM II restarts after a longer shutdown period in early 2026. In addition, I will also show some scientific highlights from experiments in energy materials, the life sciences as as well as alloy development, of which many were also done in close cooperation with scientific groups from the Czech republic.