2025 M&M Postdoctoral Students
Listed below are the 2025 M&M Postdoctoral Scholars funded by MSA. For the 2025 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
Stephen Funni – Cornell University
Mapping the intercalation-induced phase transitions in LaTe3 via in situ multimodal STEM
Biological Science Awardee
Ryan Hylton – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Simplified Montage Cryo-Electron Tomography
Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
Wyatt Curtis – EPFL
Sealed samples for high-resolution, microsecond cryo-EM
Matthew Gaines – University of Wisconsin, Madison
Determining The Structure and Binding Properties of DPS – A Nucleoid Associated Protein
Antonia Kotronia – CNRS/Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel
Towards Controlled Chemical and Electrochemical Reactivity during In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Guanxing Li – Cornell University
Optimizing Electron Ptychography for Radiation-Sensitive Materials including Metal-Organic Frameworks
Arthur McCray – Stanford University
Deep Learning Model for Obtaining Spatially Resolved Pair Distribution Functions from 4DSTEM Data
Juhyun Oh – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Multi-scale Low-dose Cryogenic TEM for Probing Beam-sensitive Thin-film Ionomer Variability Across Electrodes in Hydrogen Devices
Eduardo Ortega – Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Application of Inpainting Methods for the Improvement of STEM-Based Time-Resolved Elemental Mapping
Jana Pilatova – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Microscopic algae as new emerging models for studies of organic biocrystallization and vision
Chuqiao Shi – Rice University
Atomic-Scale Three-Dimensional Phase Inhomogeneity and Interfacial Relaxation of Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2
Hongbin Yang – University of California, Irvine
Imaging Oxygen Dopants in Sr2CuO3+δ Superconducting Film by Multislice Electron Ptychography
Shengbo You – Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Automated Tomographic 4D-STEM Data Acquisition Workflow Connected with Ptychographic High-Resolution 3D Reconstruction