MT Micrograph 2025 Awards Finalist | Unusual air bubbles in melted polyvinyl alcohol. Polarized light microscopy. Image by Marek Mis, Marek Mis Photomicrography, Suwalk, Poland

M&M 2026 Meeting Awards

MT Micrograph 2025 Awards Finalist | Unusual air bubbles in melted polyvinyl alcohol. Polarized light microscopy. Image by Marek Mis, Marek Mis Photomicrography, Suwalk, Poland

Congratulations to all our M&M Meeting Awardees!

The awardees listed below are sponsored by MSA. For awardees sponsored by MAS, visit their website: https://the-mas.org/

Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardees
Edward De La Uz — Florida Atlantic University
Exploring the Ultrastructural Organization of Collagenous Tissues Using Emerging Imaging Modalities

Alex Williams — University of Liverpool
Effects of Denoising on Cryo-EM Single Particle 3-d Reconstructions

Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
Nicholas Marchese — Stanford University
Nanobeam Electron Diffraction and Machine Learning Analysis for Mapping Semicrystalline Order in Polymers

 

Student Scholar Awardees
Sadikul Alam — The Ohio State University
Real Space STEM Characterization of Shear Defects in P2 Na2/3Ni1/4Mn3/4O2
Raja Abdul Wahab Ayyubi — University of Illinois at Chicago
Spatial Transformer Integrated Convolutional Variational Autoencoder for Robust Region-of-Interest Detection in Atomic-Resolution STEM Images
Eegene Chung — Cornell University
3D Atomic-Scale Characterization of Defects in Superconducting TiN Resonator with Multislice Electron Ptychography
Jayden Grunde — National Laboratory of the Rockies
Toward Autonomous Materials Processing in the Plasma Focused Ion Beam
Shunsuke Hayashi — The University of Tokyo, Ishizaka Laboratory
Development of Precession Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy for Efficient Magnetic Imaging with Suppressed Diffraction Contrast
Lifang Hu — The University of Texas at Dallas
A FIB-Based Circuit Edit Approach to TEM Sample Preparation of GaN Devices for STEM EBIC and Electrical Characterizations
Maalini Krishna — University of Michigan
Atomic STEM of Cracks in Cycled Polycrystalline NMC Cathode Particles
Shoaib Masood — University of Illinois at Chicago
Active Control of Radiolysis and Phase Stability in Liquid-Phase TEM Using Atomically Thin 2D Window Materials
Caitlyn Obrero — Stanford University
High-Throughput Automation of STEM Defect Analysis in WSe2
Lauryn Reyes — University of Tennesee, Knoxville
Technique to Differentiate Intergranular and Intragranular Bubbles in Commercially Irradiated High-Burnup Fuel Using Grain Boundary Maps
Alex Stangel — University of Michigan
Momentum-Resolved STEM Modalities for Polar Imaging of MBE-Grown ScAlN Thin Films
Kaiwen Yang — Rice University
Layer Resolved Polar Textures in Twisted van der Waals Ferroelectrics by 4D-STEM
Jian-Min Zuo — Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy
Advance in characterization of doped silicon by data-mining large electron diffraction and spectroscopy datasets
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardees

 In the Biological Sciences,

Chang Liu – University of Texas at Austin
High-Resolution IgM Structures in Patient Serum and Native IgM-HBV Subviral Particle Interactions Revealed by Structural Serology

 In the Physical Sciences,

Lin Yuan – Stanford University
Bridging Atomistic Active Sites and Bulk Performance in Ammonia Synthesis Photocatalysts

Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
Alexander Campos-Quiros – Lehigh University
Atomic-Scale Investigation of Anisotropic Yttrium Segregation at a Σ67 Grain Boundary in Magnesium Aluminate Spinel
Xinyan Li – Rice University
High-Precision Oxygen Octahedral Tilt Mapping in Oxide Heterostructures Enabled by Multislice Electron Ptychography
Mairi McCauley – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Time-Resolved STEM studies of Nanoscale Thermal Transport
Noah Schnitzer – Imperial College London
Liquid Helium Temperature Atomic Resolution cryo-STEM Imaging and Multislice Electron Ptychography
Boris Slautin – University of Tennessee
Bayesian Co-Navigation for Real-Time Coupling of Physical Theory and Autonomous Experiment
Ang Tao – Rice University
Revealing Atomically Bonded Twisted Oxide Interface by Multislice Electron Ptychography
Joseph Mowery — University of Maryland, Baltimore
Dual-layer Absorptive Mounting Preparation for Cryo-SEM Imaging of Hydrated Biological Specimens
Tymofii Pieshkov — University of Missouri
Diamond Nanowire Lift-Out Sample Preparation for TEM Analysis and Mechanical Experiments