2025 M&M Student Scholars

Kaylee Patterson — University of Utah
Characterization of a Fundamental, Conserved Structure: The Synaptonemal Complex

Motahareh Helli — The Ohio State University
Exploring the Role of Myostatin Mutation on Microstructure and Crystallography of Quail Eggs Using SEM and EBSD Techniques.

Hayeon Baek — Seoul National University
Investigation of interfacial radiolysis of water at liquid phase TEM chip membranes and strategies to minimize radiolysis by utilizing graphene

Abigail Carbone — Stanford University
Cross-Sectional Backscattered Electron Imaging of Mechanically Polished Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Photovoltaics

Tamazouzt Chennit — University of Antwerp
Investigating the Effect of Update Strengths for Atomic-Resolution Low-Dose Imaging in Iterative Ptychography

Alejandra Coronel-Zegarra — Florida Atlantic University
Multiscale Chemistry and Structure of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Lesions

Blake Dorame — Arizona State University
Studying Different Modes of Fluxionality on Pt Nanoparticle Surfaces using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Andrew Ducharme — University of Oregon
Towards Robust Low-Spatial-Frequency Imaging with Ptychographic Holography

Solinus Farrer — Brigham Young University
Preparation and Imaging of Monhysterid Nematodes from the Great Salt Lake with a Scanning Electron Microscope

Elizabeth Griffin — Northwestern University
Revealing Phase Heterogeneity in Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites via Plan-View Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Fintan Hardy – Imperial College London
Accelerated Identification of Polar Domains From 4D-STEM Using Group Convolutional Neural Networks

Patrick Hays — Arizona State University
Identification of Novel Stacking Faults in Chiral InSeI Nanowires

Ziria Herdegen — Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Quantitative Structure and Composition Determination by Including Thermal Vibrations in Inverse Multislice Ptychography

Malik Hollis — University of Oregon
Investigation of Dipole-Stabilized Skyrmions in Amorphous Centrosymmetric FeGdPt Multilayers using 4D-STEM

Xiang-Lin Huang – Lehigh University
Applications of a novel CEOS energy filtering and imaging device for the investigation of electronic structures of delafossite CuFeO2 single crystals growth by optical floating zone method

Minhazul Islam — The Ohio State University
Revealing Medium Range Ordering in Zr-based Metallic Glasses Using Machine Learning Analysis of 4D-STEM Nanodiffraction

Nicole Kerrison — University of Arizona
4D-STEM Analysis of Fe-Sulfides from the Early Solar System

Rishabh Kothari — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Control of Structure and Epitaxy of High-k Metal Oxides Through In Situ Electron Microscopy

Berk Kucukoglu — EPFL
Phase Contrast 4D-STEM Tomography of Thick Biological Specimens

Chuhang Liu — Stony Brook University
Time-Resolved Magnetic Imaging with Ultrafast Electron Pulser: Spin-Wave Generation in Topological Spin Textures

Adan Mireles — Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University
Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of Templated Gold Nanoplates by Integrating Electron Tomography and 4D-STEM

Kevin Nyaburi Mogere – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scanning Electron Microscopy Noise Classification Using Machine Learning

Rahim Raja — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Parameter-Free Deep Sub-Ångstrom Resolution Electron Ptychography Reconstructions using Neural Networks

Joaquin E. Reyes-Gonzalez — McMaster University
Phonon Modes of High-Tc YBa2Cu3O7-δ Films: Effects of Doping and Isotope Substitution

Ioannis Siachos – University of Liverpool
In Situ Investigation of  Degradation Processes of Undoped and Doped Mn-rich High-voltage Cathodes

Nikita Singhi – University of Utah
Visualization and Characterization of Bulk Oxygen Nanobubbles using Fluid Peak Force Quantitative Nano-Mechanical Atomic Force Microscopy

Daniela Tamayo-Jaramillo – University of Utah
Mechanism of VCP Inhibition by a Novel Covalent Inhibitor

Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya – Nagoya University
Three-dimensional Analysis of the Lattice Bending Strain by Iterative Phase Retrieval of Electron Rocking Curves

Daniel Vasquez – TU Darmstadt
Multi-Ion Plasma FIB for Advanced TEM Lamella Preparation: A Comparative Study Toward (SE)EBIC-Enabled Analysis

Xiaowang Wang – University of California, Irvine
Revealing the microscopic pattern of GB’s effect on macroscopic thermal conductivity

Yupeng Wu – Binghamton University
In-situ Atomic-Resolution Observations of Formation of Amorphous Iron during Reduction of Iron Oxides in Hydrogen