Professor Gianluigi Botton

Professor Botton joined Diamond from the Canadian Light Source where he had previously served as Science Director since May 2019. Professor Botton is a renowned expert in microscopy and spectroscopy with an impressive track record in research and funding, having secured more than $50M as Principal Investigator and $90M as a co-investigator and has more than 350 peer-reviewed publications. His work has been cited more than 34,000 times. Over the course of his highly successful career, Gianluigi has been awarded the Microbeam Analysis Society’s Presidential Award (2020) and the Metal Physics Award of the Canadian Materials Science Conference (2017); he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2018) and Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (2014).

Prior to joining the Canadian Light Source, Gianluigi established the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM), a national facility for ultrahigh resolution microscopy as the Scientific Director from the start of operations in 2008 until 2019.

Gianluigi is also Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University where he currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials. Professor Botton earned a PhD in materials engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal and has held positions as both an NSERC Post-doctoral Fellow and senior research associate at Cambridge University in England where he spent 5 years. He has also served as a research scientist with Natural Resources Canada.