Prof Beverley Inkson

Engineering & Physical Sciences Section Chair

University of Sheffield
Beverley Inkson is Professor of Nanomaterials in The Dept of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Sheffield, where she leads the NanoLAB Centre. Beverley joined the RMS as a PhD student in Electron Microscopy at Cambridge University, and served on the RMS EM section committee while a Royal Society University Research Fellow. She set up the UK NanoFIB network in 2001, and has run numerous Focused Ion Beam scientific meetings joint with the RMS. Beverley’s research interests focus on the use of electron and ion microscopies to quantify the nanomechanical and functional properties of 3D nanomaterials, including developing novel in-situ SPM-TEM and tomographic characterisation methods.
"I am excited to be the first Chair of the new Physical and Engineering Sciences Section, and look forward to developing an exciting programme with active involvement of the new generation of young scientists."

Dr Roland Kröger

Engineering & Physical Sciences Section Deputy Chair

University of York
Roland is a Reader at the Department of Physics in York with a strong focus on Nano- and Biomaterials using electron microscopy and other materials characterisation tools. Roland obtained his PhD at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Science and Technology in Braunschweig/Germany and has since built a large expertise in Materials Physics and Materials Science covering diamond thin films, metal/semiconductor nanostructures, nitride based light-emitting devices, metal nanoparticles for biomedical applications and biominerals. In the past years he has increasingly become interested in novel in situ techniques studying processes in liquid environments using aberration corrected electron microscopy. 
"There is a lot of scope in bringing together 'traditional' Materials Science and the Life Sciences which is a key aspiration for me as Secretary of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Committee"

Dr Trevor Almeida

University of Glasgow
Trevor is a Research Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. After obtaining his PhD in Material Science and holding a one-year fellowship at the University of Nottingham focusing on the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of metal oxide nanoparticles, Trevor spent 4 years as a postdoc in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. The position at Imperial College included extended visits to world-renowned electron microscopy institutes like the Centre for Electron Nanoscopy in Denmark (1 year) and the Ernst-Ruska Centre in Jülich, Germany (8 months), where he combined in situ TEM experiments with electron holography to visualise changes in magnetisation in magnetic minerals. Trevor then decided to expand his research further to include visualising magnetism of complex nanostructures for technological applications, using the world-leading TEM for a range of Lorentz microscopy techniques at the University of Glasgow. His current research is focussed on combining in situ TEM with magnetic imaging to visualise directly dynamic magnetic processes in thin films and bi-magnetic nanostructures.

Dr Anna Baldycheva

University of Exeter
Dr Anna Baldycheva is an Assistant Professor in 2D Optoelectronic materials in Engineering at the University of Exeter. Dr. Baldycheva’s research group works in the areas of 2D Materials, Si Photonics and Microfluidics. The research interests span from the development of new 2D material based layered and liquid crystal nanocomposites to the engineering of integrated 2D material-Si hybrid electronic-photonic devices for application in communications, energy harvesting, and bio-chemical sensing. Since 2010, Dr. Baldycheva authored and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers and conference proceedings. 

Dr Michael Dixon

Hitachi High Technologies
Mike is EM Section Manager at Hitachi High-Technologies. After studying Physics at university he started his career in microscopy at Philips Research before joining Hitachi in 1997 

Mike has worked in sales, service and applications development roles in the US and Europe, covering Hitachi's preparation systems, benchtop SEM, field emission SEM, automated SEM and TEM/STEM. He is currently responsible for Hitachi's EM sales activity in the UK, but continues to work in applications development and training. He is a member of the RMS Engineering & Physical Sciences Committee and the Institute of Physics EMAG committee.

Dr Michael Doube

The Royal Veterinary College
Michael is a Lecturer in the Royal Veterinary College's Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, where he leads a research group investigating mineralised tissues as multiscale materials using X-ray and synchrotron-radiation microtomography, light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and computational modelling. He is the project lead for the ImageJ plugin suite BoneJ, which is image analysis software originally designed for bone, but which is increasingly used for other porous materials.

Mr Paul Gunning

Smith & Nephew
Paul worked from 1984-2004 at the BBSRC Institute of Food Research (Norwich) in colloid science and microscopy (LM, EM, AFM), looking at emulsion stabilisation and protein/surfactant systems at air/water and o/w interfaces. During his time at IFR Paul gained a Physics HNC at Cambridge Technical College, followed by a research MSc (Salford/NEWI) investigating “Effects of microstructure on growth of pathogenic bacteria”. Paul has worked at Smith & Nephew from 2004. Smith & Nephew is a global medical technology business dedicated to helping improve people's lives. Paul is currently ‘Science Manager, Surface Analysis’ at the company’s corporate Research Centre leading a cross-disciplinary team using SEM/ED-X, LM, Raman and IR microscopy, X-ray micro-CT, contact angle and (occasionally) AFM. Paul’s and his team provide support of Manufacturing (pseudo-forensic troubleshooting, QA and Regulatory/Safety), R&D and Patents/IP functions, with occasional support of Marketing departments.

Mr Owen Green

Outreach & Education Section Deputy Chair

Owen has worked in the Earth Science Department at the University of Oxford since 1989. He initially, trained and worked in London Colleges as a Geological Technician and Curator of Geological Collections. He is currently a member of both the Engineering and Physical Sciences and Outreach Committees, and has been a co-convenor of the Geo-materials meeting (September 2014), and organised Outreach events on volcanos and mountain building. He has been a member of the Learning Zone team at mmc and an occasional contributor to infocus. His research interests include sample preparation techniques, particularly those involving applications in light and scanning electron microscopy. He is currently undertaking a 2nd edition of A manual of Practical Laboratory and Field Techniques in Palaeobiology (2001, published by Kluwer, now Springer). Other micropalaeontological research includes a study of the last shallow marine carbonate-platform foraminifera of the Tethyan Ocean recorded in rocks from the NW Himalayas 50.5 million years ago as India crashed into Asia, Neoproterozoic agglutinated foraminifera from NW Europe (Avalonia and Baltica), and contextual studies on the world’s oldest (3.5 billion years old) putative microfossils from Western Australia

Mr Steve Metcalfe

Microscopy 101 Ltd
Steve has worked with optical microscopes for the past 30 years. His background in engineering, logical approach to problem solving and inquisitive nature make him an ideal partner for your microscopy questions.
After a government (MoD) apprenticeship during which he qualified as an electronics engineer, Steve started ‘Sight Systems’, an imaging company providing innovative solutions for microscopy. Subsequently Steve was appointed as European Product Manager for Microscopy and Imaging products within Buehler, a materials sample preparation company.
Recently Steve has specialised in materials microscopy within Carl Zeiss UK as manager of the Materials Microscopy Division. He has built up a wealth of knowledge about applications and optical techniques both in industry and academia.
He now works for himself within a new company Microscopy101 Ltd.

Mr Jean-Yves Mugnier

RSSL / Mondelēz Food Research Centre
Jean-Yves is a senior scientist in the microscopy department at Reading Scientific Services Limited (globally known as RSSL) and also HQ for Mondelēz international’s cutting edge food research. His work over the last 15 years has covered a broad remit of scientific disciplines but mainly centred on materials science and food technology, using a variety of techniques but with particular focus on structural microscopy, spectroscopy and X-ray microtomography. His specialist interests include cryogenic techniques applied to hydrated and oil based materials (emulsions, colloidal compound food systems, plant material etc).

Dr Duncan Muir

Cardiff University

Duncan is the Senior Electron Microbeam Technician in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Cardiff University. His work focuses primarily on scanning electron microscope imaging and microanalysis of geological samples. Duncan studied Geology and gained a PhD at the University of Bristol researching subduction zone volcanism and magma processes. Prior to his postdoctoral studies he worked in the applied fields of Mineral Exploration and Offshore Geotechnics gaining a broad experience of Geosciences.

Dr Dogan Ozkaya

Johnson Matthey
Dogan Ozkaya is a Senior Principal Scientist and in charge of electron microscopy team in Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Sonning Common, U.K. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge. He carried out postdoctoral research in electron microscopy of various materials in several university departments, including the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and the Materials Department, University of Oxford, before joining Johnson Matthey in 2003. His research interests lie in in electron microscopy of catalysts, metrology of supported nanoparticles, high angle annular dark field imaging and quantification and application of in-situ and ex-situ environmental treatments on catalysts.

Dr Alan Poole

Dr Alan Poole began his career as a geologist studying at Nottingham and then Oxford Universities.  He became a senior lecturer in London University with research interests in applied petrography. He has also worked as a consultant specialising in the petrography of aggregates, concrete and related materials and has gained wide experience of the practical and research aspects of alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete from working both in the UK and abroad. He is involved in British and European standards committees and technical working parties. He is author of over 100 journal papers and is co-author of several technical books.

Dr Abeni Wickham

Imperial College London

Abeni is a Post-Doctoral researcher at Imperial College London, Department of Materials. She received her PhD from Linköping University, Sweden and previously worked for Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam Germany. Abeni works on understanding collagen structure and dynamics in varying soft tissue diseases.