Electron microscopy rapidly developed from a novelty to a highly fashionable discipline before maturing to its current role in providing essential insights into the fundamental structure of all materials, both inorganic and biological. Electron microscopy in physical and biological science applications are the topics of various meetings and courses. These cater for all levels of user, from the beginner through to the expert, and often consider emergent techniques and novel instrumentation. Current techniques in SEM, TEM, STEM and EFTEM for imaging and diffraction are among the interests of group members, plus elemental analysis and cryotechniques. View the Electron Microscopy Timeline.
Committee members represent a cross-section of electron microscopists and attempt to represent the user interest of the wider EM community. Any Society member may be nominated to serve as an ordinary committee member when vacancies arise.
Committee Chair
Dr Pippa Hawes, Institute for Animal Health, UK
Pippa has extensive experience in the field of electron microscopy and is an active member of the RMS EM section committee.
She believes the RMS has an important role to play in the promotion and teaching of microscopy and is consequently the co-organiser of the EM Summer School and heavily involved in co-coordinating the Cell Imaging Techniques course.
Honorary Secretary
Paul has been doing Electron Microscopy for over 20 years now and during that time has developed a particular interest in technology development, mainly in the field of Correlative Light Electron Microscopy. He loves organising training events and as such has been involved in many courses. For the RMS he is involved in the Rothamsted Cryo EM course and is a member of the organising committee EMC 2012.
Members and Co-opted Members
Dr Asa Barber, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Dr Ursel Bangert, University of Manchester, UK
Ursel obtained her degree and PhD in Physics from the Universitaet Koeln (Germany), and is now Reader in the School of Materials. She oversees the running of the School’s electron optical facilities and has worked in the area of analytical transmission electron microscopy on a wide range of materials. She has been particularly concerned with the development of valence band and plasmon spectroscopy for highly spatially resolved electronic bandstructure assessment in wide bandgap semiconductors, diamond and nano-carbons, especially graphene.
Dr Roland Fleck, National Institute for Biological Standards & Control, UK
Mr Gareth Jackson, Leica Microsystems
Mr David McCarthy, University of London, UK
David is Experimental Officer at The School of Pharmacy, University of London. David joined the School in January 1977 to set up the Electron Microscopy Unit. His areas of interest / expertise include: Light and Electron Microscopy of all types of Pharmaceutical preparations and novel formulations. He also carries out routine imaging of cell lines, bacteria and crystals. David is also Honorary Secretary of the Society of Electron Microscope Technology.
Dr Günter Möbus, University of Sheffield, UK
Günter joined the Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering in 2002. He graduated at Stuttgart University in Germany before moving for his PhD and postdoctoral years to the Max-Planck-Institut for metals research. In 1998 he was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, held first at Oxford University, and then at Sheffield University until 2003. Research interests include: Electron Tomography, Aberration corrected TEM, HRTEM of nanostructures.
Dr Alexandra Porter, Imperial College, UK
Alexandra is a lecturer in Biomaterials Electron Microscopy.
Her expertise is in electron tomography and energy filtered transmission electron microscopy of interfaces between bio/ nano materials and tissues.
Dr Jeremy Rees
Jeremy has been using EM since 1982; initially for zoology research and then in biomedical research at a London hospital.
He joined a large Pharmaceutical company and set up their imagine facilities in the late 80’s.
He came to FEI in 1994 as an applications specialist in TEM and over the years has used most of the TEM’s (and some SEM’s) in the FEI range. Jeremy is currently working on a Setting up an SEM Laboratory book.
Dr Yau Yau Tse, University of Loughborough, UK
Y.Y. Tse obtained her PhD degree in Hong Kong and has been working intensively on electron microscopy for more than 6 years. She recently joined the Department of Materials at the Loughborough University as a lecturer. Research interests include: Texture development of bulk metallic system & thin films / Materials characterisation to understand the structure-property relationships / Microstructural characterisation using electron microscopy, including SEM, EBSD, FIB/SEM and TEM.
Dr Thomas Walther, University of Sheffield, UK
Thomas is Senior lecturer in semiconductor materials characterisation at the University of Sheffield and Deputy Director of the Kroto Centre for High Resolution Imaging and Analysis. His research areas include all aspects of electron microscopy method development and instrumentation, in particular HREM, EFTEM, ADF-STEM, EELS, ELNES, EDX; quantitative analysis of semiconducting quantum well and quantum dot structures.
meetings
The Annual General Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Section was held on Thursday 7th July 2011 in Leeds during the EM Summer School.
View the Minutes of the 2011 EM Section AGM.
