Trevor Almeida
Trevor is a Lecturer in the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics Group at the University of Glasgow. He obtained his PhD in Material Science at the University of Nottingham, focusing on the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of magnetic nanoparticles. His research evolved to investigate a range of nanomagnetic processes by combining in-situ TEM methods with Lorentz microscopy techniques. This took place during time spent at Imperial College London, Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (Denmark), Ernst-Ruska Centre (Germany), the University of Glasgow and CEA-LETI in Grenoble (France). Trevor’s primary interests include the functional magnetism within 3D nanostructures, nanoelectronics, magnetotactic bacteria, meteorites, minerals, nanoparticles and thin films.
Susan Cox
Susan works at the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, developing fluorescence microscopy techniques and applying them to discover new cell biology at the nanoscale. In 2011 she was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, which she used to develop a substantial research program based around localisation microscopy, and methods to extract more information from super-resolution image data. SC is best known as the developer of Bayesian analysis of blinking and bleaching (3B), a method for analysing extremely dense localisation microscopy image series. Its importance has been recognised with the award of the Royal Microscopical Society light microscopy medal and the Society of Experimental Biology Presidents Medal. More recently, she has explored the limits of localisation in terms of speed and accuracy. She mathematically described the role of the size of the point spread function size in limiting information transmission speed and developed a machine learning based approach to remove poor fits from the super resolution image. Since it is obviously more desirable to avoid poor fits in the first place, she developed Haar Wavelet Kernel analysis (HAWK), an approach to localisation microscopy data analysis which avoids artifacts and ensures the results reflect the underlying structure of the sample.
Hilary Sandig
Hilary is currently a group leader at CRUK-TDL, where flow cytometry is used to progress immuno-oncology drug projects. After completing a PhD at Imperial College London, and several postdoctoral positions, she moved to Medimmune to support the use of flow cytometry across functions. This led her to a position. at Autolus, again with a focus on flow. The technology has been central to her career as an immunologist in academia and industry.
Leandro Lemgruber
Leandro obtained his PhD in Biophysics in Brazil, studying the cellular structure of parasites and the interaction with host cells. He did a Post-doc at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) working on the cytoskeleton dynamics of the Malaria parasite Plasmodium sp and its structural organization. He took a position as a Research Support Specialist at the Electron Microscopy Resource Center of The Rockefeller University (New York, USA) and afterwards a position of Research Associate at the National Technology Institute in Brazil. Since 2015 he manages the Imaging sector of the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology at the University of Glasgow. Since his PhD, Leandro has applied optical, electron, super-resolution and cryo-microscopy in his work, as well as correlative microscopy.
Laura Fumagalli
Laura graduated in electronic engineering in 2002 and obtained her PhD in 2006 at Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) with a doctoral thesis on low-noise amplifiers. She then joined the Electronic Department of the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (Spain), where she developed novel instrumentation and techniques for scanning probe microscopy to probe electrical properties at the nanoscale, in particular capacitance and dielectric properties of nano-materials and biomolecules. From 2015, she is lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Manchester (UK) and researcher of the National Graphene Institute - University of Manchester.
Rebecca Higginson
Rebecca is a Reader in Metallurgy in the Department of Materials. Her current research considers the study of microstructural development in metals and composites. Her group has carried out extensive studies on the high temperature oxidation of ferrous alloys. She co-ran an RMS 1-day meeting “Microstructure of High Temperature Oxidation” in 2007. Other work includes microstructural development in hologramatic laser welding, interpenetrating composites, energy materials & ultrasonic consolidation.
Maadhav Kothari
Maadhav is a materials scientist. Having previously worked in areas of heterogeneous catalysis, scale-up and development during his time at Unipetrol (Czech Republic), he then undertook his PhD at St Andrews University (JTSI group) with Johnson Matthey (Emission Control Technology) working on novel perovskite systems from autocatalysis applications. It was here that he developed his interest in microscopy and imaging.
Having a broad understanding of characterisation methods and beamline experience, Maadhav's knowledge base spans across metallurgy through to thermal battery development. Currently he holds a post as a research fellow at Cranfield University studying high temperature corrosion, fatigue and failure of Nickel Superalloys alongside Rolls Royce.
His current expertise and projects include building a high temperature environmental microscope with a fatigue rig to study in situ cracking of blades, developing Ion beam techniques for studying C-ring metallurgy and high throughput analysis of multiple micrographs using machine learning to predict microstructural failure.
Myfanwy Adams
Myfanwy obtained her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Wellesley College (Massachusetts, USA) where she worked with Dr. John Cameron and Dr. Louise Darling to characterize the interactions between cardiac potassium ion channels via electrophysiology and fluorescence microscopy. Currently, Myfanwy is in her final year of her PhD in microbiology at Cornell University (New York, USA) working in the lab of Dr. Joshua Chappie to elucidate the structural features and mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions using X-ray crystallography, biophysical and biochemical techniques. Upon degree completion, she will start as a post-doctoral research scientist at the John Innes Centre with Dr. Dmitry Ghilarov to leverage cryo-electron microscopy in pursuit of better understanding protein molecular machines in bacterial systems.
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