Dr Judy Kim FRMS

Organisation
University of Oxford / Rosalind Franklin Institute
Job title
Deputy Science Director

About Judy

Judy Kim is the Deputy Lead for Multidimensional Imaging and Graduate Studies Programme Chair at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. She is jointly a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. Her work brings together the new developments in transmission electron microscopy with practical application in beam-sensitive and biological materials. 

Judy has a special interest in the various forms of in situ TEM including room temperature liquids as well as biological structures in their native cellular environment.  She enjoys pushing the current boundaries of temporal resolution using novel optical setups, modified electron sources and modern detectors for application towards radiation sensitive materials. 

Her previous work as Principal Scientist at ePSIC of Diamond Light Source aided the development of electron ptychographic techniques for beam sensitive materials as well as establishing policy and workflows for the national facility users. Projects at the University of Oxford focused on technique development using monochromation and aberration correction for characterisation of energy and 2D materials. Her PhD work at the University of California, Davis contributed to the development of a Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope where she was awarded a Lawrence Scholar Program Fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her study on exothermic nanolaminate reactions led to the first publication of nanosecond + nanometer scale images and was awarded the Zuhair Munir Best Dissertation Award. She has also received the R&D 100 Award in 2008 and the Microscopy Today Innovation Award 2010 for the team's development work on the DTEM.

Topics of interest

  • Life Sciences
  • X-Ray & Tomography
  • Material & Physical Sciences
  • Electron Microscopy & Related Techniques
  • Life Sciences/Light Microscopy & Related Techniques
  • Data Analysis in Imaging
  • Analytical Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical/Chemical Microscopy
  • General Microscopy
  • Cryo-Electron Microscopy