Professor Angus Kirkland receives RMS Honorary Fellowship
The RMS is very pleased to award Professor Angus Kirkland (University of Oxford) with an Honorary Fellowship for his outstanding contributions to the field of electron microscopy.
Angus is Science Director at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and the electron Physical Sciences Imaging Centre at Diamond Light Source.
His research interests include the development and applications of aberration corrected HRTEM for structural studies of nanomaterials, the design of direct electron detectors and electron optics and computational image processing and theory for phase retrieval and quantitative electron microscopy.
Angus completed his MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge using high resolution electron microscopy to study the structures of colloidal metals. Following a post-doctoral Fellowship, he was elected to the Ramsay Memorial Trust Research Fellowship and subsequently as Senior Research Associate in Cambridge.
In 2005 Angus was appointed as professor of materials at Oxford University and in 2011 as JEOL professor of Electron Microscopy. He is the author of over 500 refereed papers and holds 14 patents. He is also Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
Angus is the recipient of numerous prestigious accolades, including the 2005 Microscopy Society of America Award for best paper published, the Harald Rose Distinguished Lecture and Prize for Contributions to Image Processing and Exit Wavefunction Reconstruction (awarded in 2015), the Quadrennial Prize of the European Microscopy Society (2016) the RMS Agar Medal in 2017. In 2012 he was appointed as an Honorary Professor, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Republic of South Africa.
Honorary Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by the RMS for pre-eminence in microscopy and related branches of science.