Beamline staff

Burkhard is the Principal Beamline Scientist on I08-SXM.

He  received his Ph.D in 1996 at the University of Goettingen. He was a Post-doctoral fellow at the ESRF in 1997-2000. He worked as Senior Scientist and coordinator of the TwinMic project at the Elettra Laboratory in 2000-2011. Since July 2011, he is the Principal Beamline Scientist of the I08-SXM Scanning X-ray Microscopy beamline at Diamond and acted also as Spectroscopy Village Coordinator. He published over 100 articles including reviews and book chapters.

His research interests include X-ray instrumentation, X-ray imaging and spectromicroscopy techniques and X-ray optics.

E-mail: [email protected]

Majid is Senior beamline scientist at the I08-SXM beamline.

He received his PhD in Physics, Nanotechnology (2009) from the University of Pune, India. During his PhD, he was in charge of a surface lab where he operated and maintained a XPS machine. He joined the Elettra Laboratory, in particular the ESCA microscopy beamline as a research associate fellow in 2009 and supported users and performed in-house research activities as well. Since January 2012, he was beamline scientist at the TwinMic beamline of the Elettra laboratory. He joined the Diamond team in 2013.

His research interests include nanotechnology, energy and battery research as well as in-situ and in-operando specimen environments.

E-mail: [email protected]

Luis is Beamline Scientist at the I08-SXM beamline.

He graduated from the Federal University of Vicosa (Brazil) with a B.S. and a M.Sc. in Biogeochemistry. During his B.S. he took a year abroad as an exchange student at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). He came back to the same university later to undertake his Doctoral training, focusing on the application of synchrotron based techniques to understand nutrient cycling in soils.

After completing his doctoral studies, Luis  was positioned as post-doctoral researcher of the beamline ID21, of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France), researching the application of X-ray and IR microspectroscopy to study mineral interfaces, the use of correlative imaging and the application of cryo sample preparation techniques.

Sincec June 2023, he is Beamline scientist at Beamline I08, where he will continue to push forward the use of X-ray microscopy to study mineral organic interfaces. His primary role is to use his array of knowledge and technical skills to drive instrument development, disseminate knowledge gathered from in-house and collaborative research as well as providing support to academic and industrial users at the Beamline.

E-mail: [email protected]