Brian Toby is a synchrotron and neutron powder diffraction crystallographer,  with >140 refereed papers and >8000 citations. He oversaw construction of the 11-BM diffractometer and designed and implemented its world-leading automation system.

He served as Chair of the US National Committee for Crystallography, and is active in the International Centre for Diffraction, the American Crystallographic Association. He developed the pdCIF standard for the International Union of Crystallography. He is an editor of the journal Powder Diffraction and served on the editorial board of The Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data.

He has developed several novel software concepts: the first fitting program for PDFs of crystalline materials and the first multi-field boolean search (a.k.a. PDF-4) application for powder diffraction databases. His best known programs include GSAS-II, CMPR, CIFTOOLS (pdCIFplot) and EXPGUI.

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• B.H. Toby, D. Gürsoy, F. De Carlo, N. Schwarz, H. Sharma, and C.J. Jacobsen, Practices and Standards for Data and Processing at the APS, in Synchrotron Radiation News. 2015. p. 15-20.
• V. Ayer, S. Miguez, and B.H. Toby (2014), "Why Scientists Should Learn to Program in Python". Powder Diffraction. 29(S2): p. S48-S64. [2 citations*]
• B.H. Toby and R.B. Von Dreele (2013), "GSAS-II: The Genesis of a Modern Open-Source All-Purpose Crystallography Software Package". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 46: p. 544-9 [110 citations*].
• B.H. Toby, T.J. Madden, M.R. Suchomel, J.D. Baldwin, and R.B. Von Dreele (2013), "A scanning CCD detector for powder diffraction measurements". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 46(4): p. 1058-63.
• B.H. Toby, Y. Huang, D. Dohan, D. Carroll, X. Jiao, L. Ribaud, J.A. Doebbler, M.R. Suchomel, J. Wang, C. Preissner, D. Kline, and T.M. Mooney, "Management of metadata and automation for mail-in measurements with the APS 11-BM high-throughput, high-resolution synchrotron powder diffractometer". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 42(6): p. 990-3 (2009). [6 citations*]
• P. Jain, N.S. Dalal, B.H. Toby, H.W. Kroto, and A.K. Cheetham, "Order-Disorder Antiferroelectric Phase Transition in a Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework with the Perovskite Architecture". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(32): p. 10450-1 (2008) [205 citations*].
• B.H. Toby, "R-factors in Rietveld Analysis: How good is good enough?". Powder Diffraction. 21(1): p. 67-70 (2006) [202 citations*].
• B.H. Toby, "Powder dictionary (pdCIF)", in International Tables for Crystallography. Volume G: Definition and Exchange of Crystallographic Information, Editors S.R. Hall and B. McMahon. Springer: Dordrecht. p. 258-69 (2005).
• P. DeSanto, D.J. Buttrey, R.K. Grasselli, C.G. Lugmair, A.F. Volpe, B.H. Toby, and T. Vogt, "Structural Aspects of the M1 and M2 Phases in MoVNbTeO Propane Ammoxidation Catalysts". Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. 219(3): p. 152- 65 (2004) [143 citations*].
• B.H. Toby and S.J.L. Billinge, "Determination of Standard Uncertainties in Fits to Pair Distribution Functions". Acta Crystallographica A. 60: p. 315-7 (2004) [16 citations*].
• B.H. Toby, "EXPGUI, a Graphical User Interface for GSAS". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 34: p. 210-3 (2001) [3827 citations*].
• M.A. Subramanian, B.H. Toby, A.P. Ramirez, W.J. Marshall, A.W. Sleight, and G.H. Kwei, "Colossal magnetoresistance without Mn3+/Mn4+ double exchange in the stoichiometric pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7 ". Science. 273(5271): p. 81-4 (1996) [252 citations*].
• B.H. Toby and T. Egami, "Accuracy of Pair Distribution Function-Analysis Applied to Crystalline and Noncrystalline Materials". Acta Crystallographica A. 48: p. 336-46 (1992) [170 citations*].

* Citations counts from ResearcherID on 2/2017

• Crystallographic studies of functional metal oxides and zeolitic materials
• Novel and conventional powder diffraction structural analysis techniques and software
• Non-periodic behavior (local distortions) in crystalline materials
• Informatics of powder diffraction and solid-state chemistry
• Molecular sieve structure-property relationships
• Crystallographic education methodology

• Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1986
• B.A., Chemistry, Rutgers College, 1980.

• Group Leader for Computation X-ray Science [2015-], Chief Computational Scientist [2015-], Section Head for Scientific Software [2010-2015], Theory and Software Group; Group Leader [2005-2009] Materials Characterization Group; Physicist [2005-2008], Senior Physicist [2008-], Argonne National Laboratory
• Team Leader [1998-2005], Research Chemist [1995-2005], Crystallography Team, NIST Center for Neutron Research
• Principal Research Chemist, [1991-1993], Senior Principal Research Chemist [1993-1995], Central Research Services Dept., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.,
• Research Associate [1988-1990], Lecturer [1990-1991],  Department of Materials Science. University of Pennsylvania
• Senior Chemist [1985-1988],  Central Scientific Laboratory, Union Carbide Corp.

• Group Leader for Computation X-ray Science [2015-], Chief Computational Scientist [2015-], Section Head for Scientific Software [2010-2015], Theory and Software Group; Group Leader [2005-2009] Materials Characterization Group; Physicist [2005-2008], Senior Physicist [2008-], Argonne National Laboratory
• Team Leader [1998-2005], Research Chemist [1995-2005], Crystallography Team, NIST Center for Neutron Research
• Principal Research Chemist, [1991-1993], Senior Principal Research Chemist [1993-1995], Central Research Services Dept., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.,
• Research Associate [1988-1990], Lecturer [1990-1991],  Department of Materials Science. University of Pennsylvania
• Senior Chemist [1985-1988],  Central Scientific Laboratory, Union Carbide Corp.

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• Lectures in: powder diffraction crystallography; scientifc Python; basic Python (YouTube).
• Software: GSAS-II; EXPGUI; CMPR