Scientific Organisers:
Alex Ball FRMS
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.
Asa Barber
Asa is Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering at London South Bank University and Dean of the School of Engineering. His interests are in using microscopy to understand the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties of complex systems, particularly hierarchical structures produced by biology. Asa previously led major initiatives in small scale mechanical testing combining EM with AFM at Queen Mary University of London and 3D imaging within a broader 3D engineering activity at the University of Portsmouth. Asa regularly supports the RMS Microscience Microscopy Congress in various capacities and was the Conference Chair for Tomography for Scientific Advancement (ToScA) ’17.
Thomas Walther
Thomas is Reader in Advanced Electron Microscopy at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Kroto Centre for High Resolution Imaging and Analysis.
His research areas include electron microscopy method development and instrumentation, in particular HREM, EFTEM, ADF-STEM, EELS, ELNES, EDX.
A focus is on quantitative analysis of semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots, but also the study of interdiffusion and segregation at grain boundaries and within metal nano-particles.
He runs the Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials conference series which is alternatingly held in Oxford and Cambridge, always in odd years.
RMS Organisers:
Nick Cameron
nick@rms.org.uk
01865 254772
Contact Nick for exhibition and sponsorship event queries and RMS Corporate Membership.