In situ Workshop 2026

Julia is an X-ray microscopist at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility. Julia is responsible for the operation of the hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline, supporting nanoscale spectroscopy, diffraction and imaging experiments across the life and physical sciences. Julia joined Diamond in 2007 after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Julia’s current research interests lie in the area of biomineralisation, using synchrotron techniques to unveil details of the structure of calcium carbonates formed by organisms such as shells and studying the crystallisation and formation pathways of calcium carbonates.

Manfred is Principal Scientist at Johnson Matthey focusing on studying materials relevant for catalysis and energy research. He is responsible for the JMs aberration corrected TEM at Diamond Light Source where he leads JMs research on the in-situ characterisation of heterogeneous catalysts under ambient conditions by means of electron microscopy. Furthermore, he is pursuing multilength scale research combining synchrotron and TEM techniques.

He obtained his PhD in physics in 2010 from the Technical University Berlin and the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society with a thesis on combining aberration corrected TEM and synchrotron techniques to study of the structure and reactivity of Euro IV/VI soot particles. Before joining JM in 2014, he worked as a project leader at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin where his research was focused on electron microscopical characterization of battery materials as well as heterogeneous catalysts.

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