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Principal Beamline Scientist:
Nick Terrill
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778047
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Nick Terrill is the Principal Beamline Scientist responsible for the SAXS instruments I22 and labSAXS as well as SEDL, our SAXS Sample Environment Development Lab. Nick joined Diamond in 2002 after...
Email: [email protected]Andy Smith is a Senior Beamline Scientist at I22. He joined Diamond after completing his PhD studies at University College London. His main interests are nucleation and growth of inorganic material...
Email: [email protected]Olga Shebanova is Senior Support Scientist on I22. Olga joined Diamond in 2011 after 4 years working at HPCAT beamline at Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory in the USA. Her main re...
Email: [email protected]Emily Arnold is the Post Doctoral Research Associate working on Bonse-Hart Ultra Small Angle X-ray Scattering on I22. Emily joined Diamond in 2023 after working at Cranfield University. Her main re...
Email: [email protected]Thomas is a Senior Support Scientist at I22 and DL-SAXS.
Email: [email protected]Paul Wady is the Senior Support Scientist for Sample Environment Development. Paul joined Diamond after 7 years working for the University of Manchester (UOM), developing sample environments for th...
Email: [email protected]Tim Snow is the Data Analysis Scientist working alongside the I22 beamline.
Email: [email protected]Lisa Allen - Supervised by Andy Smith, Andrew Beale, Ines Lezcano-Gonzalez, University College London, David Thompsett, Loredana Mantarosie, Husn Islam, Johnson Matthey
Lisa's project is to identify and develop a methodology to distinguish the morphology of supported metal oxides using SAXS as a primary analytical technique. Supported metal oxides are essential catalytic components in automotive after-treatment technologies. In response to growing health concerns, and as a result of recent scandals regarding vehicle emissions testing, European governments have greatly accelerated tightening measures through legislation by introducing “Real Driving Emissions” testing. This has led to a pressing need to understand and improve after-treatment catalysts for the market, with the ultimate goal of reducing harmful vehicle emissions and improving quality of life. Characteristics of the supported metal oxide have a marked effect on catalytic performance; these characteristics, however, prove challenging to identify due to the complex nature of this class of materials.
Tayyaba Rabnawaz - Supervised by Nick Terrill, Andy Smith, Tan Sui, University of Surrey, Marianne Leibi, Chalmers University
Tayyaba’s project seeks to develop and apply advanced 3D SAXS tensor tomography at beamline I22 to create a unique capability that will significantly extend our characterisation expertise and open new avenues of research to better understand the behaviour of natural materials. Ultimately, we aim to make use of existing materials and create novel and superior products. Additionally, this project will serve as a basis for new science exploitation leading towards Diamond II and the projected low emittance properties of the new ring.
Josh White - Supervised by Nick Terrill, Iris Nandhakumar, University of Southampton, Diego Alba Venero, STFC-ISIS
Josh's project is aimed at developing 3D nanostructured semiconductors. This is an established route to entirely new functional capabilities such as enhanced optical, electronic, magnetic properties. A promising synthetic route for the preparation of these materials is electrochemical templating, where the material can be electrodeposited around or through a pre-existing soft template at the electrode surface. This project aims to exploit lyotropic liquid crystalline phases as soft templates to fabricate novel 3D nanostructured by cheap, low cost and scalable electrochemical routes. The semiconductor materials will have applications in solar cells, thermoelectric devices, LEDs and optoelectronic devices. It is anticipated that new opto-electronic behaviour will emerge from these novel nanostructures as they have been predicted to have large photonic and phononic bandgaps.
Jonathan Guild - Supervised by Nick Terrill, Nick Warren and Sven Schroeder, University of Leeds.
Jonathan’s project aims to develop an automated system to allow targeted block copolymer particle synthesis within a continuous flow regime by the altering of reaction conditions. By utilising in-situ SAXS to determine both particle size and morphology the fundamental effects of molecular weight, polymer block ratio and mixing parameters on the resulting particle will be investigated. A microfluidic cell allowing for synthesise to be followed via in-situ SAXS at different residence times will be used to determine the critical residence time when self-assembly occurs and follow the evolution of the particle physical properties as the polymerisation progresses. The project will utilise both laboratory-based DL-SAXS and the synchrotron to allow comparison of the scattering pattern quality and determination of the required acquisition time for similar systems.
Paul Staniec (PDRA) - Now working at Culham, Oxfordshire
Marc Malfois (Beamline Scientist) - Now Beamline Responsible for the NCD Beamline at ALBA
Jennifer Hiller Bardsley (PDRA/Senior Support Scientist) - Now Research Development Manager (Health) at King's College London
Sarah Rogers (PDRA/Senior Support Scientist) - Now SANS Team Group Leader ISIS-STFC
Claire Pizzey (Senior Support Scientist) - Now Deputy Head of the Industrial Liaison group at Diamond
Jonathan Rawle (PDRA) - Now a Beamline Scientist on I07 at Diamond
Cate O'Brien, University of Sheffield (2021) developed millifluidic sample environments to study micro and macroscopic changes during polymer processing. Cate is currently working for Dolmite Microfluidics as a Microfluidic-based laboratory scientist.
Eleonore Mason, Univeristy of Bath (2019) - Nanomaterials for Membrane Protein Biology.
Andrew McCluskey, University of Bath (2019) - Delivered user-friendly software that can use coarse-grained modelling techniques to develop models for soft matter systems. Andrew has now joined the ESS to work as an Instrument Data Scientist after a period at Diamond producing software for the thin film community as a Data Analysis Scientist (Reflectivity)
Glen Smales, University College London (2018) - Hierarchically structured microporous materials from a variety of source materials. Glen is currently an instrument scientist at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und prüfung in Berlin
Sam Richardson, University of Reading (2016) - Hard And Soft Nanomaterial Films. Sam moved to Satavia as a Data Scientist.
Li Xi, Queen Mary University of London (2016) - Multiscale Structure and Mechanics of Bone in Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis. Li is currently at currently at Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
Gudrun Lotze, Reading University (2013) - HATSAXS - A Versatile High Throughput System for Solution SAXS. Gudrun worked at the ESRF as a PDRA on ID02 and is now at MAX IV in Lund
Angelo Karunaratne, Queen Mary University of London (2012) - Analysis of Alterations in Matrix Quality at Nanoscale in Metabolic Bone Diseases Using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction. After working in the Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College as a PDRA Angelo is currently back in Sri Lanka at the University of Moratuwa
Nesrine Chakroun, Kings College University of London (2011) - Early Steps of Prion Protein Oligomerization by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Small-Angle X-ray Scattering. After continuing her studies as a PDRA in the Department of Biochemical Engineering at University College London Nesrine has recently recently joined the UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering as a post-doc at the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies.
Gemma Newby, Reading University (2010) - Rheo-SAS from Soft Materials. After working at the ESRF Gemma is currently a staff Scientist at Xenocs
Twilight Barnardo, Aberystwyth University (2010) - Time Resolved Anomalous Small Angle X-Ray Scattering of the Sol–Gel Process.
Lois Davidson, University of Leeds (2007) - The Formation and Transformation of Schwertmannite: Kinetics and the Effects of Toxic Trace Contaminants. Lois currently leads the International ESIA and Social Sustainability Team for AECOM.
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