Dr. Ondrej Krivanek, co-founder and president of Nion Co.
Dr. Ondrej L. Krivanek, FRS, is a co-founder and president of Nion Co, and Affiliate Professor at Arizona State University. He has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and he is well known for developing, in the 1980s and 90s, new instruments for electron microscopy including parallel detection electron energy loss spectrometers, imaging filters, CCD cameras, and software such as Gatan’s DigitalMicrograph. More recently, he has led the development of the first successful STEM aberration corrector, a whole new 200 keV electron microscope, a monochromator and EEL spectrometer that have established many new energy resolution records, and open source software for electron microscopy (Swift). He is also well known for applying the new instruments to key materials problems.
Dr. Ian MacLaren, University of Glasgow
Dr. Ian MacLaren is Reader in Physics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials from University of Birmingham. His research is principally concerned with using electron microscopy to study the structure and chemistry of materials and devices at the nanoscale. Current research mainly uses either: Quantitative electron energy loss spectroscopy including DualEELS and ultra-high energy loss spectroscopy and/or scanned diffraction and 4D-STEM using fast, pixelated, direct electron detectors.These techniques are applied to a wide range of topics and materials including functional oxides, high-strength steels, optical coatings for high precision interferometry, infrared semiconductor devices, and mineral alteration in terrestrial and extraterrestrial processes.
Professor Jian-Min Zuo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jian-Min Zuo received his Ph.D. in Physics from Arizona State University in 1989. He then took a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Science Foundation center for high resolution electron microscopy and the Physics department at ASU. During this time he co-authored a book on electron microdiffraction with John Spence. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, he was a research scientist in Physics at ASU and a visiting scientist to a number of universities and institutes in Germany, Japan and Norway. His research during this period focused on the development of quantitative electron diffraction techniques and study of crystal electron density and bonding. At Illinois, Prof. Zuo has developed research programs focused on structure and property relationships in a range of materials, including metal nanoparticles, semiconductors, electroceramics, oxide interfaces, and nanotubes. He also has developed an ultrafast electron diffraction facility and atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy using the aberration corrected electron microscope at the Center for Microanalysis of Materials. He has published more than 140 papers in scientific journals and several invited book chapters on electron diffraction and diffractive imaging. His honors include the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) postdoctoral fellowship, outstanding young oversea researcher award from National Science Foundation of China, and Chair of Excellence of French Nanoscience Foundation. Zuo is the recipient of the 2001 Burton Award of the Microscopy Society of America. He was elected fellow of Microscopy Society of America in 2018.
Professor Huolin Xin, University of California, Irvine
Professor Huolin Xin graduated from the Physics Department of Cornell University in 2011 and joined University of California, Irvine in 2018. Prior to becoming a professor at UCI, he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a scientific staff member and a principle investigator from 2013 to 2018. His primary field of expertise lies in developing novel 3-D, atomic-resolution, and in situ spectroscopic and imaging tools to probe the structural, chemical, and bonding changes of energy materials during chemical reactions or under external stimuli. His research spans the areas from tomographic and atomic-resolution chemical imaging of battery and fuel cell materials to in situ environmental study of heterogeneous catalysts, and to the development of deep learning enabled self-driving TEM. In 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012, he received Distinguished Scholar Award, Castaing Award, and Presidential Scholar Award from professional EM societies. His work on battery materials has been selected as the 2014’s Top-10 Scientific Achievements by Brookhaven Lab. His research has resulted in more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and 1 patent, 25 of which are published in Science/Nature sister journals (corresponding author on 8 of the 23). To date, he has graduated three master students and one Ph.D. student. Two of his group alumni have won the “Presidential Student Award” at the annual M&M conference based on their research in Xin group. He currently operates a group of three postdocs and six students and he has open positions for students and junior/assistant specialists who are interested in deep learning and energy material related research.
Professor William Bowman, University of California, Irvine
Will joined the UCI faculty in April, 2019. His research focuses on understanding and developing oxide ceramics and nanomaterials for advanced electrochemical energy conversion and storage applications. The Bowman Lab performs materials synthesis, testing, and multiscale characterization primarily leveraging advanced electron microscopy.
He earned a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Arizona State University (Prof. Peter Crozier), before joining MIT at a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces (Prof. Bilge Yildiz). During graduate school he was a Visiting PhD Student at ETH Zurich in the Electrochemical Materials Group (Prof. Jennifer Rupp).
Professor Wenpei Gao, North Carolina State University
Wenpei Gao received his B.S. in Physics from Peking University in China and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and was a visiting scholar in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will join the faculty of Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University.
His research focuses on developing correlative in situ imaging techniques in state-of-the-art advanced Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy to study the dynamics of nanostructured catalyst, which bridges the atomic scale mechanisms with reaction and transformation in chemistry. Gao’s expertise also includes advancing and applying four-dimensional electron microscopy at heterogeneous interfaces in functional oxide materials.
Dr. Ichiro Onishi, researcher in JEOL, Ltd
Ichiro Ohnishi has received Ph. D. in Science from Kobe University in 2003. Prior to join JEOL Ltd. in 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher in JSPS Center of Excellence Program from 2003 to 2008. He is responsible for TEM applications and demonstrations mainly using JEM-ARM300F in JEOL R&D center in Tokyo, Japan. His research interests are mineralogy and planetary material science, in particular, meteoritics.
Dr. Paolo Longo, Gatan Inc.
Dr. Paolo Longo is an EELS expert and an experienced Global Application Manager with a PhD in Physics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Skilled in Spectroscopy, Optics, Research and Development (R&D), Semiconductors, Software, Physics and Materials Science. Focused on leading the technical sales division with a strong sales and technical marketing expertise developed throughout my career in technical sales.
Professor Joe Patterson, University of California, Irvine
Prof Joe Patterson was born in Nottingham, England. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of York, UK, and conducted his masters research project with Cytec Engineered Materials at the Wilton Centre. He completed his PhD in radical polymer chemistry and self-assembly at the University of Warwick, UK, in 2013, working under the supervision of Professor Rachel O’Reilly. He went on to work for Professor Nathan C. Gianneschi and Professor Kimberly Prather at the University of California San Diego, USA, and the Centre for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and Environment (CAICE) as a postdoctoral scholar. In 2016 he joined the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, working in the Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry led by Professor Nico Sommerdijk.
In July 2018 Joe joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His interests involve the development of new materials through a deep understanding of their structure and dynamics. For his work in this area he has been awarded several prizes including the Domino/MacroGroupUK Young Polymer Scientist of the Year in 2011, the 2013 Jon Weaver PhD prize and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual fellowship in 2017.
Dr. Madeline Dukes, Protochips
Madeline J. Dukes earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA in 2011. Her dissertation, supervised by Dr. Niels de Jonge, and titled “Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Tagged Proteins in Whole Eukaryotic Cells”, utilized one of the first prototypes in situ liquid TEM systems. After finishing her graduate work, she joined Protochips as an Application Scientist specializing in in-situ liquid electron microscopy. She has co-authored seventeen peer-reviewed journal papers, three book chapters, and worked with labs around the world to develop new applications and workflows for liquid cell electron microscopy.
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