The AFM&SPM 2024 meeting will take place at Durham University, Monday 25 - Thursday 28 March 2024.
AFM&SPM is an international conference on scanning probe microscopies, organised annual in conjunction with the Royal Microscopy Society. We are excited to present the 2024 programme which will include:
- 25 March – Graduate school
A graduate school on AFM, FluidFM and SICM with theory, hands on sessions. The school will also include a lecture on statistics for SPM data analysis and a discussion on career development. - 26 March – Conference: AFM&SPM in Life and Biological Sciences
Invited, Expert and contributed talks and posters on the broad theme of life sciences, from molecular biosciences to viruses and cellular processes and tissue. - 27 March – Conference: AFM&SPM in Materials Sciences and Energy
Invited, Expert and contributed talks and posters on recent developments in materials and engineering, including energy-related applications. - 28 March – Conference: Developments in AFM&SPM hardware and software
Invited, Expert and contributed talks and posters on technique developments including hardware, software and simulations and data analysis.
Please check our list of internationally renown scientists and experts who will be joining the conference.
Who should attend?
Graduate students, early career scientists as well as experts in the field of SPM are welcome to join us to present their work, engage in constructive discussions and network with the peers. The conference aims to be an international event.
Please see the information tab for location and pratical details.
Scientific Organisers
Kislon Voitchovsky
University of Durham
Kislon is an Associate Professor in Physics at Durham University. His research focus on the nanoscale properties of materials and interfaces at the frontier between physics, biology, chemistry and materials science. His work is largely based on atomic force microscopy, used to investigates the nanoscale ordering and dynamics of liquids near solids. He is particularly interested in emergent phenomena, where unpredicted mesoscale effects arise due to the unusual properties of interfaces. Kislon obtained his Masters in femtosecond spectroscopy of solvation effects from the University of Lausanne (now EPFL), followed by a PhD in nanoscale membrane biophysics from the University of Oxford. He went to do do research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and subsequently at EPFL (Switzerland) where he worked on AFM approaches to quantify the nanoscale properties and the liquid at the interface with various solids, including soft and bio-like systems. Since October 2013 he joined Durham University as a academic member of staff.
Mingdong Dong
Mingdong Dong is Professor in the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University Denmark. He is applied physicist specializing in advanced surface sensitive scanning probe microscopy (SPM). He has developed several important quantitative SPM-based surface sensitive techniques to investigate electronic, mechanical, thermal, chemical, and magnetic properties in biological systems and nanomaterials, which have been critically important for a better understanding of structure-function relationship. His academic experience ranges from materials science, physical chemistry to biophysics, covers problems in life science and nanoscience, encompasses expertise in SPM. He has published more than 300 papers (More than 16000 citations, H-index of 65) in top international peer reviewed journals such as Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, JACS, ACS NANO, Advanced Materials, etc. Dr. Dong has been a member of Royal Microscopical Society, ACS, MRS, Biophysical Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
RMS Organisers
