Name: In Situ Workshop 2026
Start: 2026-11-24T10:30:00
End: 2026-11-25T17:00:00
Location: Diamond Light Source

A 2-day workshop aimed at current and potential users of in situ sample environments for TEM and X-ray Nanoprobe techniques. The talks and discussions will highlight the practicalities and experimental considerations of these studies and of working with in situ cells. In addition, the ‘hands on’ practical workshop sessions will allow attendees to see the in situ sample environments in action, with demonstrations across TEM and X-ray nanoprobe studies.

Scientific Organisers:

Julia Parker

Engineering, Physical & Material Sciences Section Deputy Chair, Diamond Light Source

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.

Leonardo Lari

University of York

Leonardo Lari is a Research Officer at the York-JEOL Nanocentre and the Physics Engineering and Technology School at the University of York. Leonardo obtained his first degree in Physics from the University of Florence. He then moved to the University of Liverpool in 2005 where he started his PhD studies as a Marie Curie-Skłodowska EU RTN fellow. After obtaining his PhD, he moved to the University of Sheffield for a Post-Doc before joining the University of York as a staff scientist dedicated to the York double aberration corrected in-situ open cell environmental microscopy facility. Leonardo is interested in developing In-situ techniques, correlating materials structure and their properties, in phase transformations of nanomaterials and catalysts redox reactions down to the atomic scale. Since 2008, Leonardo has authored around 60 peer-reviewed publications.

Manfred Schuster

In-situ characterisation, Johnson Matthey

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.