Nanocentre staff

Director of York JEOL Nanocentre

Director of Electron Microscopy

AC-(e)STEM/TEM. Atomic level structural and spectroscopic characterisation of nanomaterials. Growth and modelling of thin films and heterostructures for spintronic and electronic applications.

Experimental Officer

Adam Kerrigan Experimental Officer: SEM, TEM, FIB, AFM

Research Officer

Dr Leonardo Lari Research Officer: AC-(e)TEM/STEM

EPSRC SuperSTEM senior research fellow/lecturer

Dr Demie Kepaptsoglou

Areas of expertise: Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy; Materials Science; Thermoelectrics; Functional ceramics; Graphene and 2D materials.

SuperSTEM

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Dr Laura Clark

Areas of expertise: (Scanning) transmission electron microscopy; ptychography and differential phase ontrast imaging; image simulations for (S)TEM; beam shaping and aperture design; low-dose imaging for beam sensitive materials, modelling and analyses; fourier optics analysis

Other resident staff

Professor Dame Pratibha Gai DBE, FREng, FRS
(JEOL Founding Professor of Electron Microscopy and founding Co-Director of Nanocentre (2005-2016), Departments of Chemistry and Physics) - Catalysis, in-situ electron microscopy instrumentation and methods, bioenergy, fuel cells, emission control, healthcare.

Professor Edward D Boyes FRMS, FInstP
(Founding Co-Director of Nanocentre, Physics and Electronics) - Analytical instrumentation, method development, auto-exhaust emission control and nanoparticle physics

Chair of Nanocentre Users' Forum

Dr Richard Douthwaite (Chemistry)

Staff associated with the Nanocentre

Dr Jamie Blaza (Chemistry) Cryo-EM, structural biology
Professor Alistair Boxall (Environmental Sciences)
Dr S Brown (Heritage management)
Dr Christoph Baumann (Biology) Molecular Biophysics
Dr Stuart Cavill (Physics) - Magnetic materials and multiferroics
Emeritus Professor Roy Chantrell (Physics) - Magnetic materials theory
Dr Victor Chechik (Chemistry)
Professor Irene D'Amico (Physics) - Optical and electronic properties of nanostructures for spin electronics
Dr Richard Douthwaite (Chemistry) - Photocatalysis
Emeritus Professor John Goodby (Chemistry)
Dr Yvette Hancock (Physics) - Multiscale modelling, carbon structures
Professor Atsufumi Hirohata (Electronics) - Nanoelectronics
Professor Roland Kröger (Physics) - Transmission electron microscopy of nanostructures
Professor Mark Leake (Physics and Biology) single molecule biophysics
Dr Avtar Matharu (Chemistry) - Nanoparticles
Emeritus Professor Kevin O'Grady (Physics) - Magnetic materials and device research group
Dr Andy Pratt (Physics) - spin-polarised materials, organic spintronics
Professor Matt Probert (Physics) - Structural and dynamical properties of nanosystems
Dr Anita Radini (Archaeology) - Dental calculus as a means of reconstructing the diet and living conditions of past humans
Dr Isabel Saez (Chemistry)
Dr John Slattery (Chemistry)
Professor Sarah Thompson (Physics) - Magnetic thin films
Professor Yongbing Xu (Electronics) - Spin electron devices
Dr A Young (Electronics)
Professor Jun Yuan (Physics) - Nanophysics and electron microscopy
Dr Jing Wu (Physics) - Spin dynamics