Virtual Microscopy Characterisation of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces 2022

Liane G. Benning

FZ Potsdam, Germany
A short biography: Liane obtained a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and after a 3-year postdoctoral stay at Penn State University she joined the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds where she became a full professor in 2007. In 2014 she moved to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam and over the last  8 years she assembled a highly international and multidisciplinary team of ~ 25 researchers who focus on “interfacial reactions” driving and controlling reactions that shape Earth surface environments. https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/liane-g-benning/sec35/

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Miaofang Chi

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory  
Miaofang Chi is a senior staff scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 2008. Her primary research interests are understanding interfacial charge transfer and ion transport behavior in energy and quantum materials and systems by advancing and employing novel electron microscopy techniques. She was awarded the Burton Medal by the Microscopy Society of America (2016) and the Kurt Heinrich Award from the Microanalysis Society (2019). She received the ORNL Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology (2015 and 2021) and DOE-BES Early Career Award (2019). 

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Lucy Collinson

The Francis Crick Institute, UK

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Martial Duchamp

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Berit Goodge

Talk Title: Cryogenic EELS at the atomic scale

Cornell University School of Applied and Engineering Physics 

Bio: Berit H. Goodge is a PhD Candidate in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, where she has also been recognized as a Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science Webb Fellow, a Microscopy and Microanalysis Student Scholar, and a Trevor R. Cuykendall Memorial Outstanding Teaching Assistant. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in physics from Carleton College. Beyond her scientific research, Berit works with the Cornell Center for Materials Research developing K-12 classroom kits to teach concepts of physics, materials, and microscopy and chairs Cornell’s Expanding Your Horizons Conference, an annual event engaging 500 middle- and high-school student attendees to encourage the discovery and pursuit of their own passions in STEM.    

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Stig Helveg

Technical University of Denmark
Stig Helveg is Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Visualizing Catalytic Processes (VISION) and Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He received the PhD degree in physics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 2000. He then joined Haldor Topsoe A/S in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark and advanced to become Fellow. He lead the company’s activities on in situ electron microscopy in catalysis research and development. His research has provided unprecedented new insights into dynamic processes and functions in catalysis at the atomic-scale. Specifically, he has contributed to developing instrumentation, methodologies, and applications of transmission electron microscopy for in situ / operando studies of catalysts under relevant reaction conditions and at the atomic-level. He has worked interdisciplinarily with international leading experts to integrate advances from electron microscopy, micro-electro-mechanical system technology catalysis, chemical engineering, and surface science. These achievements have been awarded e.g. the Berzelius Prize (2012), the EliteForsk Prize (2018) and Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Innovation in Materials Characterization Award in 2019. In 2020, he joined Technical University of Denmark to further advance this research agenda by building up VISION. 

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Katherine Jungjohann

Talk Title: Nanoscale Electrode Interfaces Revealed with Cryo-Electron Microscopy

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Bio: Dr. Jungjohann joined NREL in 2021, after starting her career within DOE’s Nanoscale Science Research Centers, including the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Her research began with liquid-cell scanning / transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM) of nanoparticle synthesis and catalytic nanoparticles. During her tenure at Sandia National Laboratories, she worked heavily on Li-metal anode characterization using in-situ electrochemical S/TEM and cryogenic electron microscopy methods. In addition, she led two development projects to advance in-situ S/TEM capabilities. Dr. Jungjohann supported research on an array of user projects that required in-situ S/TEM (electrical biasing, electrochemistry, heating, heating in liquids, cryogenic, straining, and environmental TEM). She now supports her group’s role in providing advanced analytical microscopy and imaging characterization to NREL and NREL’s collaborators.

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Ulrich Lorenz

EPFL
After a Ph.D. in molecular physics, Ulrich Lorenz did a postdoc with Ahmed Zewail at Caltech, where he became interested in time-resolved and ultrafast electron microscopy. Since 2016, he is an Assistant Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his research is being supported by an ERC Starting Grant. His interests revolve around the development of new methods to image the dynamics of nanoscale systems at high spatial and temporal resolution. Recently, his group has put forward a new approach to time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy that affords a time resolution of just a few microseconds, three orders of magnitude faster than previously possible. This opens up the possibility for resolving the domain motions of proteins that are typically associated with their activity, a goal that the group is currently pursuing.

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Penghan Lu

Research Centre Jülich
Penghan Lu is currently working in Prof. Rafal Dunin-Borkowski’s group at the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons in Research Centre Jülich. His current research activities mostly focus on methodology and instrumentation development for electron microscopy, particularly by applying non-conventional optical setup and custom-designed hardware components to specific applications. This includes, but not limited to, low-dose electron phase contrast imaging (iDPC, ptychography, holography, etc.) for challenging materials and biological specimen characterisation, as well as electron beam shaping using thin film masks and structured electromagnetic fields for aberration correction, phase plate, vortex beam, structured illumination, etc. His research interests also involve cryogenic electron microscopy, in situ electron microscopy, as well as micro- and nano-fabrication using electron beam lithography and focused ion beam.

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Andrew Minor

Talk Title: 4D-STEM of soft materials

University of California, Berkeley

Bio: Andrew Minor is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and also holds a joint appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he is the Facility Director of the National Center for Electron Microscopy in the Molecular Foundry. He received a B.A. in Economics and Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and his MS and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from U.C. Berkeley. He has co-authored over 235 publications and presented over 135 invited talks on topics such as nanomechanics, lightweight alloy development, characterization of soft materials and in situ TEM technique development. His honors include the LBL Materials Science Division Outstanding Performance Award (2006 & 2010), the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS (2012) and the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America (2015). 

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Utkur Mirsaidov

National University of Singapore 
Utkur Mirsaidov obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and after a 3-year postdoc at Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he moved to the National University of Singapore (NUS), first, as a research fellow, and then, as a faculty member. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Physics at NUS. Utkur’s lab uses in situ electron microscopy to study the nanoscopic details of phase transitions, nanomaterials synthesis, micro- and nanofabrication, and catalysis. 

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Mark Oxley

ORNL

Graduated from The University of Melbourne Ph.D. 1999 Theoretical Physics

1999- 2001        Research Fellow Grade 1 (Level A), School of Physics, The University of Melbourne
2002-2004        A.R.C. Research Fellow, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne  
2005-2008        Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory  
2008-2015    Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.   
2015-present                      R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 

Research Interests:  Image simulation in the S/TEM.  Phase retrieval.  Structure determination.  Electron energy loss simulations for core and low loss EELS.
 

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Robert Thorne

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Elisabeth Villa

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