2024 M&M Postdoctoral Students
Listed below are the 2024 M&M Postdoctoral Scholars funded by MSA. For the 2024 M&M Student Scholars funded by MAS, please visit https://the-mas.org/awards/distinguished-scholar-award-dsa/
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardees
Physical Science Awardee
Stephanie Ribet – National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
More than a phase: Uncovering the structure of materials with electron phase retrieval techniques
Biological Science Awardee
Not Awarded This Year
Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
Paul Chao – Sandia National Laboratories
Application of Polarized Light Microscopy for 3D Materials Science
Jingshan Du – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Molecular-Resolution Electron Imaging of Defects and Dynamics at the Ice-Water Interface
Birk Fritsch – Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (IEK-11)
Controlling the solution chemistry in aqueous phases during in situ microscopy
Zhenjing Liu – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Oxidation Sequence of Ultrathin Hafnium Metal on Graphene
Allison Mis – Colorado School of Mines
Applying Precession Electron Diffraction to Cepstral Analysis to Investigate Polarity in Ferroelastically Tilted Specimens
Ganesh Narasimha – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Active Learning based Structure-Property Correlation in STM
Suk Hyun Sung – University of Michigan
Unveiling a Large Supermodulation Underlying Electronic Anisotropy in Uranium Chalcogenide
Yaolong Xing – Korea Institute of Energy Technology
In-situ Observation of Formation Mechanism of Infinite-layer Iron Oxide
Fehmi Yasin – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Discovery of a Bloch Point Quadrupole Coupling Topological Skyrmions and Antiskyrmions into Hybrid Strings via Holographic Vector Field Electron Tomography
Xiangyu Yin – Argonne National Laboratory
PEAR: A Knowledge-guided Autonomous Pipeline for Ptychography Enabled by Large Language Models
Yang Zhang – Harvard University
Artificially controlled nanoscale chemical reduction via electron beam illumination
Menglin Zhu – Ohio State University
Characterizing the 3D Polar Texture of Ferroelectric Relaxors using Multislice Electron Ptychography