Electron Microscopy Characterisation of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces
Electron Microscopy Characterisation of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces
Scientific Organisers: Dr. Nadezda V. Tarakina (QMUL), Dr. Roland Fleck (KCL), Dr. Andy Bushby (QMUL)
This brand-new meeting plans to combine the knowledge of life science and materials science microscopists in order to stimulate new interdisciplinary approaches for solving complex materials problems using the knowledge and expertise of both communities. The main focus of this meeting is hybrid materials that have organic and inorganic components (hybrid solar cells, bio-inspired composites, mineralized tissues, colloidal nanoparticles, etc.), where such an interdisciplinary approach is absolutely necessary to obtain a deep understanding of their functions and properties.
The workshop will consist of lectures from experts in both life science and material science electron microscopy and from technological/industrial partners covering a broad range of microscopy techniques (aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, cryo-EM, FIB-SEM and TEM tomography, EELS, holography, etc.).
A trade exhibition and a poster session will provide great opportunities for discussions. We believe that this format will foster creative thinking and inspire new ideas and collaborations.
Online registration for this event has now closed.
Provisional Programme
Invited Speakers
Scientific Organisers
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Dr Nadezda Tarakina
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Nadezda V. Tarakina leads the Electron Microscopy research group at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam (Germany). After completing her PhD in Chemistry at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry in Yekaterinburg (Russia), she performed research in Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and the UK, combining different scattering techniques and transmission electron microscopy to study highly-disordered structures. She got her Habilitation in Experimental Physics from the University of Wuerzburg (Germany) in 2020. Her main research interest lies in developing approaches for characterising soft functional materials and their interfaces with hard matter at the nanoscale using electron microscopy techniques. She is the lead scientific organiser of the “Microscopy characterisation of organic-inorganic interfaces” conference, which has been running on an annual basis since 2016. -
Dr Andy Bushby
QMUL
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Professor Roland Fleck
King's College London
Roland is Director of the King's Centre for Ultra Structural Imaging
Invited Speakers
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Dr Alex Ball, FRMS
Natural History Museum
Alex is the Head of Imaging and Analysis in the Core Research Laboratories at the Natural History Museum. He has over 25 years' experience in light and electron microscopy and has published research involving transmission and scanning electron microscopy, confocal microscopy and micro-CT. His PhD research involved the use of LM, SEM and SEM combined with computer-aided 3D reconstruction. Now his interests focus on non-destructive imaging and analysis of natural and cultural heritage samples. Over the course of his career Alex has had the good fortune to be tasked with setting up the NHM's micro-CT laboratory and more recently the 3D surface scanning facilities where our first job was to 3D scan an entire blue whale skeleton! He has a keen interest in outreach and education and has led the NHM's imaging activities at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival for over ten years and routinely participates in the NHM's public outreach events. -
Prof Rafal E Dunin-Borkowski
Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy
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Prof Ed Boyes
University of York
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Dr Heiner Friedrich
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Prof Pratibha Gai
University of York
Currently Professor of Electron Microscopy at the University of York and Director of the York JEOL Nanocentre, Professor Gai is widely known for co-inventing the atomic resolution environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM) and later the atomic resolution in-situ aberration corrected ESEM. These instruments have allowed the dynamics of chemical reactions between gases and solids to be studied at the atomic scale and at semi-realistic pressures and temperatures. This means that structural changes can be seen by researchers in real time. This is key in understanding the underpinning mechanisms of chemical reactions such as catalysis, used in the vast majority of industrial chemical synthesis processes.
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Emanuela Liberti
University of Oxford
Emanuela completed her PhD in Materials at Imperial College London. During her PhD, she worked on the characterisation of oxide photocatalyst nanostructures using aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM) including exit wavefunction restoration, as well as a combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS).
In 2013, Emanuela joined the Department of Materials in Oxford as a Post Doctoral researcher under the ESTEEM EU fp7 program. Her research involved the development of methods for the quantification and interpretation of aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy images, using techniques such as focal and tilts series recovery of the specimen exit wave function, and imaging simulations for applications in environmental catalysis.
In 2017, Emanuela joined the electron Physical Imaging Centre (ePSIC) team as an electron microscopy scientist and Post Doctoral Research Fellow of the Oxford Materials group. Her role includes supporting users research and data analysis, as well as conducting her own research on quantitative TEM of catalytic systems and energy materials.
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Dr Martin Pfannmoeller
Universiteit Antwerpen
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Prof Alexandra Porter
Imperial College London
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Mr Jonathan Wheatland
QMUL
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