MT Micrograph 2020 Award Finalist | Gold nanocubes with a monodispersed size distribution (edge = 55 nm) deposited on a silicon wafer. These tiny uniform cubes were produced as reference nanoparticles. SEM secondary electron image acquired at 10 kV with an in-lens electron detector. | Vasile-Dan Hondoroaba, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany

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MT Micrograph 2020 Award Finalist | Gold nanocubes with a monodispersed size distribution (edge = 55 nm) deposited on a silicon wafer. These tiny uniform cubes were produced as reference nanoparticles. SEM secondary electron image acquired at 10 kV with an in-lens electron detector. | Vasile-Dan Hondoroaba, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany

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

M&M Student Scholars

2025 Student Scholars
Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardees
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.

Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
Aurys Šilinga — University of Glasgow
Using Electrons to 3D-Print Ferromagnetic Nanostructures and Characterise their 3D Magnetic States Using Tomographic Model Based Iterative Reconstruction

 

Student Scholar Awardees
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
2024 Student Scholars
Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardee
Kristaps Kairišs — Heidelberg University
Visualisation of gene expression within the context of tissues: an X-ray computed tomography-based multimodal approach
Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
Zoë Broad — University of Liverpool
Recovery of Subsampled EBSD Datasets Using a 3-D Data Volume for Inpainting

 

Student Scholar Awardees
Andrew Balog — The Pennsylvania State University
Investigation of Alumina Atomic-Scale Structure and Crystallization Behavior Across a β-Ga2O3/Al2O3 Interface
Aviram Bhalla-Levine — University of California, Los Angeles
Atomic Electron Tomography of Thin Films
Kayla Callaway — University of Maryland
In Situ Ultra-fast TEM Observation of Acoustic Excitation of 128° Y-X LiNbO3
Christopher Chae — The Ohio State University
Atomic Scale Defect Formation and Evolution at LiGa5O8/β-Ga2O3  and Ga2O3/Ni/Au Interfaces
Ho Leung Chan — University of California, Los Angeles
Nano-PUND and STEM EBIC Imaging for Ferroelectric Polarization Mapping
Byeongjun Gil — Seoul National University
Ultralow-dose TEM Study: Modulating the Grain Size-Dependent Sub-Grain Planar Defects via A-site Compositional Tuning in Metal Halide Perovskites.
Francisco Guzman — UC Irvine
Ferroelastic Charged Domains in Ferroelectric BiFeO3 Nanoneedles.
Jeffrey Huang — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Three-Dimensional Imaging of 2D Materials with Tilted Multislice Electron Ptychography
Shake Karapetyan — Cornell University
Visualizing Defects and Amorphous Materials in 3D with Mixed-State Multislice Electron Ptychography
Taichi Kusumi — The University of Tokyo
Real-time Denoising Algorithm for STEM Imaging Using Markov Random Field Model
Aowen Li — University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Systematic Absences of Optical Phonon Signals in Momentum-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
Ting-Ran Liu — University of Southern California
Revealing Picoscale Incommensurate Modulations in a Multiferroic by Electron Ptychography
William Millsaps — University of Michigan
3D Geometric Phase Analysis for Electron Tomography (Conference Abstract)
Matthew Mosse — Trinity College Dublin
Event-responsive Beam-modulated STEM with Multi-frame and Sparse Scanning
Ruth Parsons — Duke University
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron mutations on the conformational landscape of the Spike protein
Yujie Quan — University of California, Santa Barbara
Probing Photocarrier Dynamics in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors with UV-Pumped Scanning Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
Hosna Rastegarpouyani — Florida State University
Two different forms of thick filament in the flight muscle of Drosophila melanogaster
Nicholas Rienstra — University of Wisconsin, Madison
Stereolithographic (SLA) 3D Printing of Microfluidic Flow Cells to Encapsulate EM Grids Used to Culture Cells for Correlative Imaging Studies
Jeremy Shen — University of Michigan
Evolution of Incommensurate Charge Density Waves Quantified with In Situ TEM
Saif Siddique — Cornell University
Interaction of charge density waves with defects in rare-earth tritellurides
Koudai Tabata — The University of Tokyo
Towards Quantitative Imaging of Atomic Vibrations with Multi-dimensional STEM Detectors
Jonathon Tran — Portland State University
Characterization of Chopped Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites Produced Using Fused Deposition Modeling
2023 Student Scholars
Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardees
Nedal Darif — European Molecular Biology Laboratory
From Organ to Organelle: Towards a Multimodal 3D Cell Atlas of Plasmodium Mosquito stages using Correlative Light, X-ray and Volume Electron Microscopy.

Peter Ducos — University of Wisconsin — Madison
A 3.2 Å structure of the PriA/PriB/replication fork complex reveals mechanistic insight into bacterial DNA replication restart

Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
Fengli Yang — Fritz Haber Institut of MPG
Tracking the Incorporation of Fe into NiO Electrocatalysts during Reaction with Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy and Time-Resolved Elemental Mapping

 

Student Scholar Awardees
Zhaslan Baraissov — Cornell University
Measuring three-dimensional strain in Nb3Sn grains by combining ZOLZ and HOLZ diffraction
Samantha Berry — Pennsylvania State University
Diving into COVID-19: Visualizing SARS-CoV-2 Patient Proteins using Liquid-Electron Microscopy
Yutong Bi — University of California, Irvine
In-situ 4D-STEM Study on Grain Boundary Dynamics in Polycrystals
Alexander Campos-Quiros — Lehigh University
EELS Spectrum Imaging of Ca Segregation at Grain Boundaries in Magnesium Aluminate Spinel
Wenjun Cui — Wuhan University of Technology
Direct observation of cation diffusion driven surface reconstruction at van der Waals gaps
Liza-Anastasia diCecco — McMaster University
Liquid Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces: Exploring Hydrated Collagen Mineralization Processes
Samuel Gleason — University of California, Berkeley
Machine Learning Prediction of Charge State from EELS Spectra of Third Row Transition Metals
Alimohammad Hojjatian — Florida State University
Novel ADP state found in smooth muscle heavy meromyosin by CryoEM
Hsien-Lien Huang — The Ohio State University
Atomic-Level Insights into the Radiation Damage and Recovery of β-Ga2O3 for High-Performance Semiconductors
Yukun Liu — Northwestern University
Probing the “Order” in Complexity: Entropy-engineered Thermoelectric Materials
Jason Manassa — University of Michigan
Dose and Sampling Requirements for Fused Multi-Modal Electron Tomography
Danielle Markovich — Cornell University
Revealing the Internal Architecture of Alkaline Fuel Cell Membranes with Cryo-4D-STEM and Cryo-STEM-EELS
Gillian Nolan — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Imaging Charged Domain Walls in van der Waals Ferroelectric α-In2Se3 via 4D-STEM
Stephen Porter — University of New Mexico
Formation of Pt-Pd ‘Janus’ Biphasic Particles During High Temperature Aging of Diesel Oxidation Catalysts
Emily Rennich — University of Michigan
Liquid Helium TEM Sample Holder with High Stability and Long Hold Times
Chuqiao Shi — Rice University
Semi-automated hierarchical clustering model for 4D-STEM datasets
Zixiao Shi — Cornell University
Three-Dimensional Imaging of Surface Structural Transformations on Electrocatalyst Nanoparticles Using Multi-Slice Electron Ptychography
Ponsuge Thisera — University of Kentucky
Investigation of Metal-Metal Oxide Interfaces via Real-Time In Situ TEM Heating
Ivy Wang — University of Oxford
Charting Cytoskeleton-Organelle Interplay in Living Cells Through High Resolution 3D Correlative Cryo-Imaging
Yifan Wang — Arizona State University
Observation of Gas Adsorbates with Time-Resolved Vibrational EELS
Dian Yu — University of Toronto
Low-voltage SEM Imaging of Lignocellulosic Biomass using a Low-cost Methanesulfonate Ionic Liquid
Johnattan Vargas — Institucion Universitaria Pascual Bravo
Determining the Effect in the Adhesion Between Modified PLA Matrix and Natural Fibers Using SEM and Micro-Raman Spectroscopy
2022 Student Scholars
Nishkarsh Agarwal — University of Michigan
Accessing chemically ordered phase in TaS2 via High Temperature In-situ TEM
Nicolas Bonmassar — Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Emergent Interfacial Magnetism in Superconducting Cuprate-Manganate Superlattices
Michael Colletta — Cornell University
Overcoming Artifacts in Imaging Nanometer-thick Ionomer Layers in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Oana Condurache — Jozef Stefan Institute
Monitoring Bismuth Ferrite Domain Walls Behavior Under Electric Field With Atomic Resolution By In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Sanduni Fernando — University of Utah
Two-Color Fixed Cell Imaging Using Engineered Point Spread Functions — XPSF Family
Jordi Ferrer Orri — University of Cambridge
Using Cathodoluminescence from Continuous and Pulsed-Mode SEM to Elucidate the Nanostructure of Hybrid Halide Perovskite Materials
John Gaida — Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Defocus Phase Contrast in Photon-Induced Near-field Electron Microscopy
Emma Hedley — University of Oxford
A Quantitative Understanding of the Short Range order in Disordered Rocksalt Cathode Materials
Jessica Heebner — Penn State University College of Medicine
Phantoms Improve Robustness of Deep Learning Automated Segmentation in Cryotomography
Jennifer Jiang — Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Elucidating the 3D Structure of β-(1,3)-glucan Synthase from Candida glabrata by Subtomogram Averaging
*Raleigh & Clara Miller Scholarship
Mads Larsen — Technical University of Denmark
In-situ Electrokinetics Using Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy
Ka Yin Lee — McMaster University
Spectroscopy of Nanosphere-Substrate Coupling: The Role of Multipolar Surface Phonon Modes
Talya Levitz — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Effects of chameleon Dispense-to-Plunge Time on Grid Characteristics, Sample Distribution, and Complex Denaturation of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Ribonucleotide Reductase Inactive Complex
Arthur McCray — Argonne National Laboratory
Evolution of Skyrmion Lattice Order in the van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2
Saran Pidaparthy — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fluctuation Cepstral STEM for Imaging Disordered Materials
Frances Quigley — Trinity College Dublin
Retrofitting a Photoelectron Source: Improving Resolution & Functionality
*Eric Samuel Scholarship
Kate Reidy — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mapping Local Structure, Electronic and Excitonic Properties at the 2D/3D Interface
Rajat Sainju — University of Connecticut
Real-time Multi-Object Tracking of Ion-irradiation Induced Defects in in situ TEM Videos
Marcel Schloz — Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
High Resolution Three-Dimensional Reconstructions in Electron Microscopy Through Multifocus Ptychography
Madeline Van Winkle — University of California, Berkeley
Direct Measurement of Atomic Reconstruction, Strain, and Disorder in Moiré Materials using 4D-STEM
Aram Yoon — UNIST/IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials
Potassium-Mediated Anisotropic Etching of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Driven by Self-Running Oxide Droplets
Yue Yu — Cornell University
Dose-efficient tcBF-STEM with information retrieval beyond the scan sampling rate for imaging frozen-hydrated biological specimens
Xiyue Zhang — Cornell University
Detection limits for imaging chiral magnetic materials with 4-dimensional Lorentz scanning transmission electron microscopy
Menglin Zhu — The Ohio State University
Temperature Mapping with STEM Atomic Scale Debye-Waller Thermometry
2021 Student Scholars
 Mehrdad Abbasi Gharacheh — Ohio State University
4D-STEM Determination of Atomic Structure of Amorphous Materials for Renewable Energy Applications
 Lopa Bhatt — University of Illinois, Chicago
Plasmon electron energy-loss spectroscopy and in-situ cooling experiments of graphene liquid cells
 Simon Carl — Florida Atlantic University
Correlative Zernike phase contrast X-ray nanotomography to determine the distribution and orientation of graphite particles in a carbon fiber reinforced epoxy resin for improved thermal conductivity
 Laura Chaves — Purdue University
Coordinated analyses on space weathering signatures on a Fe-sulfide grain from asteroid Itokawa
 Jialiang Chen — University of Minnesota
A Quantitative Method for In-Situ Pump-Beam Metrology in Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
 Yueyun Chen — University of California, Los Angeles
Determining Lattice Parameters by Curve-Fitting Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction Patterns
 Matthew Cheng — Northwestern University
Structural and chemical analysis of mixed cation antiferromagnetic layered metal chalcophosphate FeCoP2S6
 Thomas Danz — University of Göttingen
Ultrafast nanoimaging of the order parameter in a structural phase transition
 Peter Denninger — Florida Atlantic University
In situ chip-based heating studies of metal-induced layer exchange and Si crystallization using STEM, LEND and SE imaging in SEM
 Joshua Dickerson — MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
How much can inelastically scattered electrons contribute to electron cryotomography of biological specimens?
Helen Donelick — University of Utah
Structural determination of the Dicer-2•R2D2 complex
Jennifer Donohue — University of California, Berkeley
4D-STEM analysis of an amorphous-crystalline polymer blend: combined nanocrystalline and RDF mapping
Matthew Doran — Boston University
Inhibition of bacterial binding through dysfunction of bacterial adhesion pili
Leeya Engel — Stanford University
Micropatterning of electron microscopy grids for improved cellular cryo-electron tomography throughput
*Apkarian Scholarship, Biological Science
Stephen Funni — Carnegie Mellon University
Quantifying the local structure of incommensurately modulated tetragonal tungsten bronze from STEM images
Chaitanya Gadre — University of California, Irvine
Phonon Reflections from Nanostructured Interfaces Imaged by Momentum- Averaged and Resolved Vibrational EELS
Piyush Haluai — Arizona State University
Studying Charge Transport and Light Induced Structural Alterations in Ni/NiO Core-Shell Co-Catalysts on SrTiO3 for Solar Hydrogen Evolution
Alimohammad Hojjatian — Florida State University
Cryo-EM structure of F-actin decorated by HMM in rigor state
Cameron Johnson — University of Oregon
2-Grating Inelastic Free Electron Interferometry
Satinder Kaur — McGill University
Local computational methods to improve the interpretability and analysis of cryo-EM maps
Priti Kharel — University of Illinois
Atomic-resolution and Atomic-scale Imaging of Small Organic Molecules
Francisco Lagunas — University of Illinois
Atomic-resolution in-situ cooling study of functionally terminated 2D transition metal carbides.
Haoyang Ni — University of Illinois
Compressed Sensing Inspired Line Feature Detection for In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy
*Eric Samuel Scholarship
Micah Rapp — Columbia University
Visualizing cadherin intermembrane adhesion assemblies using cryo-electron tomography
*Raleigh & Clara Miller Scholarship
Marcel Schloz — Humboldt University of Berlin
Adaptive Scanning in Ptychography through Deep Reinforcement Learning
Morgan Seidler — University of California, Berkeley
Using cryo-TEM to study the effect of side-chain chemistry on the crystal motifs in polypeptoid nanosheets
Meiyue Shao — Ohio State University
The effect of beam scan strategies on the microstructure and mechanical properties of additive manufacturing Ti-6Al-4V builds
Yu-Tsun Shao — Cornell University
Probing the dynamics of ferroelectric topological oscillators with the electron beam
*Apkarian Scholarship, Physical Science
Andrew Soltisz — Ohio State University
Morphological Object Localization: A Novel Image Analysis Pipeline for Quantitative Spatial Localization of Biomolecule Signal from Fluorescence Microscopy Data
Lioudmila Sorokina — University of Illinois, Chicago
In Situ Graphene Liquid Cell Investigation of Metal Ion Modifiers of Calcium Oxalate
Suk Hyun Sung — University of Michigan
Recovery of long-range order in two-dimensional charge density waves at high temperatures
Binbin Wang — Ohio State University
In-situ observation of the in-plane field induced nucleation of skyrmion using Lorentz-TEM
Tingting Wu — Washington University in St. Louis
pixOL: pixel-wise point spread function engineering for measuring the 3D orientation and 3D location of dipole-like emitters
2020 Student Scholars
 Avi Auslender — Tel Aviv University
Measuring the Mean Inner Potential of AL2O3Sapphire Using Off-Axis Electron Holography
 Kaustav Chatterjee — Indiana University, Bloomington
Nanoscale Investigation of Layered Oxychloride Intergrowth Photocatalysts for Visible Light Driven Water Splitting
 Debaditya Chatterjee — University of Wisconsin, Madison
Electron Correlation Microscopy Measurements of Metallic Glass Surface Dynamics
 Yana Danilova — Lomonosov Moscow State University
Electron Tomography Revealed Compact DNA in the Nucleus-like Compartment, Formed in the Bacterial Cell During Infection by the PhiKZ Bacteriophage
 William Huang — Stanford University
Resolving Nanoscopic and Mesoscopic Heterogeneity in Battery Solid-Electrolyte Interphases by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
 Joseph Kim — University of Wisconsin, Madison
A New in situ Neuronal Model for Cryo-ET
 Daria Koshkina — Moscow State University
Gossypol can Destabilize Chromatin: Analysis by spFRET Microscopy
 Philipp Muscher — Stanford University
Electrochemistry in an MeV UED System: The Structural Dynamics of in situ Lithium-intercalated WTe2
 Prudhvi Ram Peri — Arizona State University
Plasma enhanced atomic layer-etched and regrown GaN-on-GaN high power p-ndiodes
 Jacob Pietryga — University of Michigan
3D Visualization of Nanoscale Tomography using Holographic Displays
Stephanie Ribet* — Northwestern University
Multimodal Characterization of the Oleophilic Hydrophobic Magnetic (OHM) Sponge: A Nanocomposite Material for Oil Spill Remediation
*Raleigh and Clara Miller Award
Debadarshini Samantaray — Indian Institute of Science—Bangalore
Axial-Radial Heterostructures of Telluride Nanowire
Jinsol Seo — Sungkyunkwan University
Direct Mapping of Oxygen Vacancy and Ti-Valence Change during Surface Reconstruction of SrTiO3(001) at High Temperatures by In-situ Ptychography and EELS
Katherine Sytwu — Stanford University
Enabling Kinetically-unfavorable Phase Transformation Mechanisms with Plasmonics
Cammy Truong — University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Combining Scanning Electron Microscopy and Light Microscopy to Study How Blood Cell Directed-Architecture Influences Nanoparticle Penetration into Clots
Mei Wang — The University of Maryland
Establishing Flask-Relevant Reaction Conditions for Imaging Bimetallic Nanocrystal Formation with Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy
Michael Xu — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Revealing Nanoscale Order and Strain in Lightweight FeMnAlC Steel Alloys with Atomic-resolution STEM
Zhili Yu — Baylor College of Medicine
In situ Investigations of the Bacterial Type II Secretion System
Steven Zeltmann — University of California, Berkeley
Denoising of Sparse Three- and Four-dimensional Hyperspectral Electron Microscopy Data Using a Total Variational Method
Chi Zhang — Northwestern University
Identification of Structure and Chemical Occupancy of Emerging Complex Compounds via Analytical Electron Microscopy
2019 Student Scholars
Fatemeh Abbasi Yeganeh — Florida State University
3-D Structure of Z-disks Isolated from the Flight Muscle of Lethocerus Indicus
Anika Burrell — University of Washington
Cryo-EM Reveals IMP Dehydrogenase I Filaments Adopt Diverse Architectures
Paul Cueva — Cornell University
Sub-nm Resolution, Sub-pm Precision Structure Mapping Robust to Thickness and Tilt Variations by Cepstral Analysis of Scanning Nanodiffraction 4D-STEM
Ha Dang — University of Washington
Cryo-EM structure of Nipah virus fusion glycoprotein in complex with a monoclonal antibody reveals mechanism of neutralization
Julia Doh — Oregon Health & Science University
VIPER: a Genetically-Encoded Tag for Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy
Amanda Erwin — University of Michigan
Structural Analysis of Helicobacter pylori VacA Reveals Insights into Oligomerization
Alice Greenberg — University of Oregon
Lorentz Implementation of STEM Holography
Catherine Groschner — University of California, Berkeley
Machine Learning for High Throughput HRTEM Analysis
Shen Han — Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
High-Contrast Imaging of Nanodiamonds in Cells by Energy filtered and Correlative Light-Electron Microscopy: Towards a Quantitative Nanoparticle-Cell Analysis
Daniel Kelly — The University of Manchester
Liquid-Phase STEM-EDS in Graphene and Silicon Nitride Cells
Abinash Kumar — North Carolina State University
In Situ Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics Probed with Differential Phase Contrast Imaging
Ethan Lawrence — Arizona State University
Real-Time Imaging of Surface Dynamics on CeO2 Nanoparticles using Time-Resolved Aberration-Corrected TEM
Brandon McKeon — Arizona State University
Characterization of Misfit Dislocations at Heterovalent II-VI/III-V Interfaces
Arthur Moya — Linacre College, University of Oxford
A Semi-quantitative Predictive Model for SnO2 Adatom Diffusion; Its Application to Exit Wave Reconstruction
Akshay Murthy — Northwestern University
Electronic Biasing of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides in a TEM
Colum O'Leary — Materials Science, University of Oxford
Electron Ptychography Using Fast Binary 4D STEM Data
Will Parker — University of Oregon
Feasibility of an Electron Orbital Angular Momentum Sorter
Timothy Pegg — Miami University
Immunoprofiling of Cell Wall Carbohydrate Modifications during Aerenchyma Formation in Fabaceae Roots
Graham Rykiel — Oregon Health & Science University
Multiscale Cardiac Imaging: From Whole Heart Images to Cardiac Ultrastructure
Jonathan Schwartz — University of Michigan
Removing Stripes, Scratches, and Curtaining with Non-Recoverable Compressed Sensing
Alexandra Sheader — Materials Science, University of Oxford
Microscopy on Drugs: Characterisation and Quantification of Pt-based Pharmaceuticals using the STEM
Michelle Smeaton — Cornell University
Quantifying Atomic-Scale Quantum Dot Superlattice Behavior Upon; in situ; Heating
Louisa Mezache — The Ohio State University
Indirect CLEM Identifies Proarrhythmic Remodeling of Intercalated Disk Nanodomains in Murine Atria Following Acute VEGF Treatment
Janis Wirth — University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Correlative 3D Characterization of High Temperature Oxide Scales on Co-Base Superalloys Using Nano-CT and FIB/SEM Tomography
Yao Long Xing — Sungkyunkwan University
In situ Negative Cs HRTEM Imaging of Topotactic Phase Transformation from Perovskite SrFeO3 to Brownmillerite SrFeO2.5
Reed Yalisove — University of Michigan
Defining Theoretical Limits for Aberration-Corrected Electron Tomography: New Limits of Resolution, Object Size, and Dose
Hwanhui Yun — University of Minnesota
Visualization of Misfit Dislocation Network at the BaSnO3-LaAlO3 Interface
Ruopeng Zhang — University of California, Berkeley
Understanding the Slip Planarity and Residual Strain Field in Ti-6Al using Nanobeam Electron Diffraction and First Principles Calculations
Yanyan Zhao — Stanford University
Cryo-EM Study of Chaperonin Mm-Cpn’s Conformational Heterogeneity under Different ATP Conditions
2018 Student Scholars
Henry Ayoola — University of Pittsburgh
Correlative Structure-Bonding and Stability Studies of Pt/γ-Al2O3 Catalysts
Sanaa Ben Djemaa — University of Tours (France)
Fluorescence Microscopy as a Tool for Nanomedicine-Cell Interactions Study: Input of Particle Design and of Analytical Strategy
Celesta Chang — Cornell University
Direct Imaging of Tilt Relaxation from the Interface in Epitaxially Strained Ca2RuO4 Thin Films using ABF-STEM.
Stavros Deligiannis — National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
TEM Study of Nanoprecipitate Formation in Novel HSLA Steels
Peng Dong — McMaster University (Canada)
Application of Liquid Cell-TEM in Hydration Reactions of Nano Portland Cement
Daniel Du — University of Minnesota
Directed Hypersonic Strain Waves Imaged with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
Joseph Favata — University of Connecticut
Correlative Workflow in the Characterization of TiN Coatings in Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices
Vivek Garg — Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India)
Coloring with Focused Ion Beam Fabricated Nanostructures
Qianying Guo — University of Alabama
In situ Single/Cyclic Deformation and Correlated Precession Electron Diffraction Analysis of Nano-laminate Crystalline/Glassy Metal Composites>
James Hart — Drexel University
Direct Correlation of MXene Surface Chemistry and Electronic Properties
Matthew Hauwiller — University of California, Berkeley
Using Graphene Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy to Elucidate Nanocrystal Etching Mechanisms
Christopher Hobbs — Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Characterizing the calcination behaviors of Ni-Fe layered double hydroxide materials via in-situ transmission electron microscopy
Blanka Janicek — University of Illinois
Quantitative Chemical Mapping of Soft-Hard Interfaces on Gold Nanorods
Supriya Koul — University of Central Florida
Microstructure and mechanical behavior of the 3D printed Inconel 718: In-situ TEM study
Xuying Liu — University of Wisconsin
In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Room-temperature Plastic Deformation and Recovery in Thin 3C-SiC
Yifei Liu — Ohio State University
Workflow for Correlatively Imaging Mouse Pulmonary Valve Extracellular Matrix
Yuanzhi Ma — Carnegie Mellon University
Direct Observation of Ta-rich Conductive Filament in TaOx Based Resistive-Switching Device in Plan-View
Jason Martineau — University of Utah
Precisely Localizing Wavelength Sensitive Point-Spread Functions Engineered With a Silicon Oxide Phase Plate
Justin Ondry — University of California, Berkeley
Dynamics and Removal Pathway of Edge Dislocations in Imperfectly Attached Nanocrystal Pairs; Towards Design Rules for Oriented Attachment
Jungjae Park — Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
Functionalized graphene as cryo-EM supporting film
Spencer Reisbick — University of Minnesota
Charge-Density Wave Localization and Co-Existence in 1T-TaS2
Xue Rui — University of Illinois, Chicago
Atomic-resolution study of oxygen vacancy ordering in La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ thin films on SrTiO3 during in situ cooling experiments
Noah Schnitzer — University of Michigan
Stacking, Strain & Stiffness of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Quantified through Reciprocal Space
Franziska Seifert — Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany)
Cryogenic TEM Studies of Bloch and Néel Skyrmion Textures in Lacunar Spinels and Cubic Helimagnets
Elisah VandenBussche — University of Minnesota
The Effect of a Pulsed Electron Beam on Damage Threshold
Josh Vincent — Arizona State University
Atomic-Resolution Operando Observations of Nanostructured Pt/CeO2 Catalysts Performing CO Oxidation
Zoey Warecki — University of Maryland
Measuring the minority carrier diffusion length in n-GaN using bulk STEM EBIC
Anna Weiss — Carnegie Mellon University
Characterizing the Effect of ECAP on Particle Dispersion and Thermal Stability of Internally Oxidized Fe-Y Alloys
Robin White — Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Advanced Methods to Enable 4D Imaging of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells by X-ray Computed Tomography
Murat Nulati Yesibolati — Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Measuring Surface Charge on a Single Nanoparticle in Liquids using Off-Axis Electron Holography
2017 Student Scholars
Jay Aindow* — Academy of Aerospace and Engineering
Eutectic Solidification in Zn-Sn Binary Alloys: An Experiment for High Schools
*MSA K-12 Student Scholarship
Marwa Belhaj — University of South Carolina
Alginate Microcapsule Technology and Impacts on Cell Therapy Development
Gabriel A. Calderon Ortiz — The Ohio State University
Determining Nanoscale Molecular Ordering in Semiconducting Polymers
Allessandra DiCorato — Northwestern University
A Correlative Cryo-Fluorescence and CryoSEM Approach for Visualizing Nanomaterials in Glioblastoma Tissue
Ismail El Baggari — Cornell University
Emergent Phase Coherence of Stripe Order in Manganites Revealed with Cryogenic Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Bryan D. Esser — The Ohio State University
Structural and Magnetic Characterization of B20 Skyrmion Thin Films and Heterostructures using Aberration-Corrected Lorentz TEM and Differential Phase Contrast STEM
Everett D. Grimley — North Carolina State University
Compositional Ordering and Polar Nano-Regions: Physical Effects of Sn Alloying in SrTiO3 Thin Films
Diane M. Haiber — Arizona State University
Monochromated EELS and Optical Spectroscopy of Layered Carbon Nitrides
Liang Hong — University of Illinois at Chicago
In-situ STEM-EELS Observation of Ferroelectric Switching of BaTiO3 Film on GaAs
Yi Jiang — Cornell University
Enhanced Resolution from Full-Field Ptychography with an Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector
Takaaki Kinoshita — Soka University, Japan
The Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM) Observes the Axonal Compartmentalization and Microtubule Formation in Neurons
James L. Kizziah — University of Alabama at Birmingham
Structure and Function of the Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage 80α Baseplate
Prashant Kumar — University of Minnesota
Early Growth Stages of Directly Synthesized Large-Area Zeolite Nanosheets
Jiayao Li — Monash University, Australia
Nanoindentation on Graphene Encapsulated Single Cells
Alexandra J. Machen — University of Kansas Medical Center
Single Particle CryoEM of the Anthrax Toxin Initial Engagement Complex
Vinal Menon — University of South Carolina
Molecular Consequences of Cardiac Valve Development as a Result of Altered Hemodynamics
Katerina Naydenova — MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Efficient Cryo-EM: Measuring Effects of Particle Orientation in Electron Microscopy
S. M. Bukola Obayomi — Arizona State University
Imaging Live Uterine Tissue Modulation using Confocal Microscopy
Katherine A. Spoth — Cornell University
Dose-Efficient Cryo-STEM Imaging of Whole Cells using the Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector
Congli Sun — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Identification and Quantification of Boron Dopant Sites in Antiferromagnetic Cr2O3 Films by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Aakash M. Varambhia — University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Quantitative STEM of Catalyst Nanoparticles using ADF Imaging with Simultaneous EDS and EELS Spectroscopy
Kartik Venkatraman — Arizona State University
Probing Interfacial and Surface Effects with Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
 HsinWei Wu — Arizona State University
Aberration-corrected STEM Imaging and EELS Mapping of BaTiO3/SrTiO3 Interfacial Defects
Jie E. Yang* — Boston University School of Medicine
Cryo-electron Tomography Analysis of Infectious Extracellular Vesicles from a Non-enveloped RNA Virus
*Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship
Chenyu Zhang — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joint Denoising and Distortion Correction for Atomic Column Detection in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Images
Pei Zhang — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Atomic-scale Relaxation Dynamics in the Supercooled Liquid State of a Metallic Glass Nanowire by Electron Correlation Microscopy
 Yong Zhang — Monash University, Australia
Structure and Function of Nano-sized InSb Precipitate Embedded in an Al Alloy

M&M Postdoctoral Scholars

2025 Postdoctoral Scholars
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardees

 In the Biological Sciences,

Ryan Hylton – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Simplified Montage Cryo-Electron Tomography

 In the Physical Sciences,

Stephen Funni – Cornell University
Mapping the intercalation-induced phase transitions in LaTe3 via in situ multimodal STEM

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 – Cornell University
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
2024 Postdoctoral Scholars
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardee

 In the Physical Sciences,

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

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
2023 Postdoctoral Scholars
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardees

 In the Biological Sciences,

Aleksandra Klimas – Carnegie Mellon University
11-fold expansion microscopy with universal molecular retention using Magnify

 In the Physical Sciences,

Dingxin Fan – Princeton University
Individual Iron and Cobalt Atoms Identification using Atomic Force Microscopy

Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
Kenan Elibol – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Aluminum nanoplasmonics integrated onto suspended monolayer graphene
Eric Hoglund – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Influence of Local Stoichiometry, Bonding, and Structure on Interface Vibrations
Kunmo Koo – Northwestern University
Analytical in situ Gas Transmission Electron Microscopy Enabled with Ultrathin Silicon Nitride Membranes
Yongtao Liu – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Machine Learning-Driven Autonomous Microscopy for Materials and Physics Discovery
Amarshi Mukherjee – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
High-resolution Cryo-EM Structure of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage 80α Portal Protein and SaPI1 Capsid
Spencer Reisbick – Brookhaven National Laboratory
Broadband Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Using Electrically Driven Pulse Generation
Katherine Sytwu – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Developing Robust Neural Networks for High-Resolution TEM Image Analysis
Yuan Tian – University of California, Irvine
In situ observation of disconnection-mediated nucleation of annealing twins at triple junctions
Zer Vue – Vanderbilt University
Decrease in Mouse Skeletal Muscle during Aging is due to Altered Mitochondrial Networks and the MICOS complex
2022 Postdoctoral Scholars
Jonathan Bouvette — NIEHS
SmartScope: Framework for unsupervised cryo-EM imaging
*Apkarian Scholarship, Biological Science
Jiadong Dan — National University of Singapore
Exploring Motifs and Their Hierarchies in Crystals via Unsupervised Learning
James Hart — Cornell University
Layer Stacking Determination in Topological Semimetal MoTe2 via STEM Imaging, Liquid He TEM, and Quantitative Electron Diffraction
Christoph Hofer — University of Antwerp
Few-tilt Electron Ptychotomography: A New Method to Determine the 3D Structure of 2D Materials with High-precision and Low-dose
Blanka Janicek — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dynamic atomic-scale imaging of cluster-ion anti-perovskites using low-dose cryogenic HRTEM
Alex Lin — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Correlating Automated High-Throughput ADF-STEM and 4D-STEM Imaging for the Characterization of Irradiation-Induced Defects
*Apkarian Scholarship, Physical Science
Joydeep Munshi — Argonne National Laboratory
Strain Mapping from Electron Diffraction Patterns using a Fourier-space Complex Neural Network
Katerina Naydenova — MRC LMB
Molecular Structure Determination Extrapolated to Zero Dose with an Electron Cryomicroscope
Sandhya Susarla — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Atomic scale crystal field mapping of polar vortices in oxide superlattices
Chunyang Wang — University of California, Irvine
TEM Study of Chemo-Mechanical Degradation Pathways of LiNiO2-Derived Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Yingjie Yang — University of Illinois, Chicago
Reversible Intercalation of Mg2+ in V2O5 at Elevated Temperatures Leads to Enhanced Electrochemical Performances
Aram Yoon — Fritz Haber Insitut der Max Planck Gesellschaft
Enabling Structure-Property Correlation in Electrochemical Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Electrocatalysts
Yichao Zhang — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In-situ Imaging of Thermally Activated Atomic Reconstruction of Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
2021 Postdoctoral Scholars
Yueming Guo — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Automatic detection of crystallographic defects in STEM images by unsupervised learning with translational invariance
Ramon Manzorro — Arizona State University
Quantifying fluxional behavior in catalytic CeO2 nanoparticles: toward thermodynamic insight into the stability of surface atomic structures
William Nicolas — California Institute of Technology
Peaking into the plant cell wall using cryo-FIB milling and electron cryo-tomography
Prakash Parajuli — University of Illinois, Chicago
Atomic-scale Insights of Cation Diffusion into Multivalent Battery Cathodes
Thomas Pekin — Humboldt University of Berlin
Improving 4DSTEM measurements of atomic charge and electrostatic potential via energy filtration
Mathias Rothmann — University of Oxford
The atomic-scale microstructure of metal halide perovskite elucidated via low-dose electron microscopy
Xingxu Yan — University of California, Irvine
Space- and Angle-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy to Probe the Local Phonon Modes at Planar Defects
2020 Postdoctoral Scholars
Stoichko Antonov — Max-Planck-Intitut fur Eisenforschung GmbH
Atom Probe Tomographic Investigation of the Solute Segregation to Crystal Defects in γ-phase Co-35Ni-20Cr-10Mo Superalloy
Nuria Bagues Salguero — The Ohio State University
Imaging of Magnetic Textures in Polycrystalline FeGe Thin Films via in-situ Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy
Shaobo Cheng — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Charge Ordering in Manganite and Ferrite Systems
Michele Conroy — University of Limerick
Probing the Dynamics of Topologically Protected Charged Ferroelectric Domain Walls with the Electron Beam at the Atomic Scale
Shiqing Deng — University of Science and Technology Beijing
Atomic-Scale Investigations of Charge-Lattice Modulation in a Hole-Doped Charge-Ordered Ferrite
Armin Feist — University of Gottingen
Coherent Phase Control of Ultrashort Electron Pulses by Traveling Optical Waves and Whispering-gallery Modes
Marcus Gallagher-Jones — UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry
Determining Atomic Structures from Digitally Defined Regions of Nanocrystals
Benedikt Haas — Humboldt University of Berlin
Comparison of Ptychography vs. Center-of-Mass Analysis of Registered 4D-STEM Series
Chen Huang — University of Oxford
Probing Graphene Defect Kinetics at Millisecond Time Resolution using Direct Detection and machine learning
Silvan Kretschmer — Helmoltz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Electron Irradiation of Two-dimensional MoS2: Insights into the Influence of Electronic Excitations from First-Principle Calculations
Sten Lambeets — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In-situ and In-operando Cobalt Oxidation studied by Atom Probe Tomography
Andrew Lang — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
The Atomic Structure of Epitaxial Metallic Transition Metal Nitride TaNxby STEM-ABF and HAADF
Yue Li* — Northwestern University
Nanoscale Chromatin Imaging and Analysis (nano-ChIA) platform bridges 4-D chromatin organization with molecular function
*Apkarian Award - Biological Sciences
Kelly Manthei — University of Michigan
CryoEM Analysis of Lecithin: Cholesterol Acyltransferase in Complex with High-density Lipoprotein Particles
Alexander Markevich — University of Vienna
Uncovering the Mechanism for Electron-Beam Manipulation of Dopants in Silicon
Debangshu Mukherjee — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stemtools: An Open Source Python Toolkit for Analyzing Electron Microscopy Datasets
Paula Navarro — MGH, Harvard Medical School
The Dynamo Software Package for Cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging
Bumsu Park — * Sungkyunkwan University
Direct Mapping of Electrostatic Potential Variation in Charge Trap Layers in Three-dimensional Memory Devices
*Eric Samuels Award
Philipp Pelz — University of California, Berkeley
Phase Contrast Imaging in Thick, Heterogeneous Samples via S-Matrix Phase Retrieval and Depth Sectioning
Shuaishuai Sun — * Michigan State University
Development of RF-compressed High-throughput Femtosecond Electron Microscope
*Apkarian Award - Physical Sciences
Jae Yang — University of Wisconsin, Madison
High-precision Cryogenic Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy using Two Independent Alignment Features and an Easy-to-use Toolkit to Study Virus-infected Mammalian Cells
2019 Postdoctoral Scholars
Wenpei Gao — University of California, Irvine
Measuring charge state at the single-atomic-column-base with four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy
Wei-Chang Yang — National Institute of Standards and Technology
Application of electron-beam-excited localized surface plasmon resonance to unveil catalytically active sites on Au nanoparticles
Vivian Merk
Selective Ion Accumulation in Biomineralizing Marine Acantharia
Hamish Brown — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Structure Retrieval of Strongly Scattering Materials in the Transmission Electron Microscope
Paul Smeets — Northwestern University
Atomic-Scale Characterization Reveals Core-Shell Structure of Enamel Crystallites
Andrew Yankovich — Chalmers University of Technology
Towards Plasmon-Exciton Hybridization at the Nanoscale using STEM EELS
Johannes Elferich — Oregon Health & Science University
HOTSPUR: A Real-time Interactive Preprocessing System for Cryo-EM Data
Michael Buch — National Institutes of Health
Localization of the Herpesvirus Portal
Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri — Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (physical sciences)
Scale-bridging 3D Analysis of Micro-/Macroporous Zeolite Particles Using X-ray Nano-Tomography and Electron Tomography
Axel Brilot — Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (biological sciences)
CryoEM Reveals Multi-step Activation of γTubulin and Assemblies to Optimize Microtubule Nucleation
Aubrey Penn — Eric Samuel Scholarship
Explaining the Magnetic Properties of Oxygen Deficient LSMO Thin Films by iDPC
2018 Postdoctoral Scholars
 Benjamin Caplins* — National Institute of Standards and Technology
Developing a Programmable STEM Detector for the Scanning Electron Microscope
*Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship
 Zhen Chen — Cornell University
Real-space Demonstration of 0.4 Angstrom Resolution at 80 keV via Electron Ptychography with a High Dynamic Range Pixel Array Detector
 Emre Firlar — University of Illinois at Chicago
Investigation of the Magnetosome Biomineralization in Magnetotactic Bacteria using GLC-TEM
 Jordan Hachtel — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Atomic-resolution Electric Field Measurements with a Universal Detector
Stephen House — University of Pittsburgh
In situ Insights into the Uncorking and Oxidative Decomposition Dynamics of Gold Nanoparticle Corked Carbon Nanotube Cups for Drug Delivery
Yi Jiang — Cornell University
Breaking the Rayleigh Limit in Thick Samples with Multi-slice Ptychography
Maureen Lagos — McMaster University (Canada)
Nanoscale Temperature Measurements using Phonon Scattering
Kunpeng Li* — Purdue University
2.5 Ã… Resolution Cryo-EM Structure of Human Apo-ferritin Using an Optimized Workflow for Volta Phase Plate
*Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (Biological Sciences)
Alejandra Londono-Calderon — Ames Laboratory
In-Situ Nucleation, Growth and Evolution of Au Nanoparticles during Metallization of DNA Origami Visualized with HAADF-STEM
Jiashi Miao — Ohio State University
Dislocation Characterization using Weak Beam Dark Field STEM Imaging
Mario Mietzsch* — University of Florida
Structural Characterization of Emerging Pathogenic Human Parvoviruses
*Raleigh & Clara Miller Award
Darius Pohl — Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
The Role of Spatial Coherence for the Creation of Atom Size Electron Vortex Beams
Paul Smeets — Northwestern University
Atomic Resolution STEM Imaging of Human Enamel Crystallites and Characterization of its Localized Impurities
Hongyu Sun* — Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Anisotropic Nanoscale Galvanic Replacement Reactions Studied by Liquid Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
*Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship – (Physical Sciences)
Wei Zhang — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Rate-dependent Reversal of Lithium Concentration During Intercalation into LixFePO4 Nanoparticles
2017 Postdoctoral Scholars
 Priyamvada Acharya* — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Conformational Changes in HIV-1 Env Trimer Induced by a Single CD4 as Revealed by Cryo-EM
*Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (Biological Sciences)
 Cédric Barroo — Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Field Emission Microscopy to Study the Catalytic Reactivity of Binary Alloys at the Nanoscale
 Hamish G. Brown* — Monash University, Australia
Quantitative Specimen Electric Potential Maps using Segmented and Pixel Detectors in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
*Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (Physical Sciences)
 Wei Guo — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Recent Progress of Correlative Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography for Materials Characterization
 Lewys Jones* — University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mapping the Chemistry Within, and the Strain Around, Al-alloy Precipitates at Atomic Resolution by Multi-frame Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
*Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship
 Emi Kano — University of Tsukuba, Japan
Etching and Mending of Graphene Edges by Cu and Pt Atoms
 Lin-Ze Li — University of California, Irvine
Interaction between Ferroelectric Polarization and Defects in BiFeO3 Thin Films
 Dustin M. McCraw — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Phantoms Models to Characterize Influenza Hemagglutinin-based Vaccines
 Michelle S. Thompson — NASA Johnson Space Center
Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Carbonaceous Chondrites which Experienced Experimentally Simulated Space Weathering Effects
 Canhui Wang — National Institute of Standards and Technology
In-situ Characterization of Catalytic Reactions Promoted by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Energy
 Weizong Xu — North Carolina State University
Utilizing High-temperature Atomic-resolution STEM and EELS to Determine Reconstructed Surface Structure of Complex Oxide
 Aiming Yan — University of California, Berkeley
Identifying and Engineering the Stacking Sequence in CVD Grown Few-layer MoS2 via Aberration-corrected STEM
 Yue Zhuo — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Label-free Imaging of Stem Cell Adhesion and Dynamic Tracking of Boundary Evolution using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM)

 

M&M Professional Technical Staff Awards

2025 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Genki Terashi — Purdue University
DMcloud: Macromolecular Structure Modeling with Local Structure Fitting for Medium to Low Resolution Cryo-EM Maps
Haoran Yu — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Investigating the degradation mechanism of proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers using analytical electron microscopy
2024 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Mouad Essani — University of Paris Est Creteil
A simple and accurate approach for thickness measurement of particles and thin films using SEM-EDS
Victoria Pappas —Northwestern University
Optimizing a Pipeline for Eukaryotic Ultrastructure
Lolita Rotkina — Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
High-Resolution Volume Electron Microscopy of an Entire Epidermal Plant Cell Using Plasma-Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy
Pengyuan Xiu — Intel Corporation
Achieving 0.002° Measurement Precision of Sample Surface Tilt by Utilizing FIB-SEM Coincidence
2023 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Toshihiro Aoki — University of California, Irvine
Quickly switchable angular and spatially resolved Cs-corrected STEM
Jian-Hua Chen — University of California, San Francisco
Soft X-ray 3D imaging: A powerful tool for visualizing virus infections with increased resolution and field of view
Yuta Fukushima — Fuji Electric
Band-bending Analysis of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Interface by In Situ Biasing Electron Holography
Bernard Heymann — Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Accounting for the Ewald spheres in cryoEM reconstructions and their relationship to 3D Fourier transforms of focal series
2022 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Kashyap Maruthi — New York Structural Biology Center
Data collection speedups in Leginon
Jae Yang — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Montage cryo-electron tomography: a high throughput and flexible data collection scheme to explore in-situ cellular landscapes while preserving high-resolution data
2021 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Stephen Boona — Ohio State University
Evidence of magnetic structure contribution to electron backscatter diffraction
Sz-Chian Liou — University of Maryland
Investigations the Electronic Structure in Monoclinic phase Gadolinium Sesquioxides by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Daniel Ruscitto — GE
Customized Automation of Routine EPMA Analyses Using Vendor-Supplied APIs
Bryan Sibert — University of Wisconsin
Technological improvements for whole cell cryo-ET of respiratory syncytial virus infected cells
Joseph Simpson — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bayesian Approaches to Finding the Needles in the Microscopy Haystack
2020 Professional Technical Staff Awards
 Emily Benson — Cleveland Clinic Laboratories
Serial Block-Face SEM of Brain Tissue using Rapid Automated Preparation
 Carley Goodwin — The Ohio State University
X-ray MicroCT Imaging of Dentin Tubules in a Human Tooth
 James Martinez — NASA
International Space Station (ISS) Thruster Plume Contamination and Erosion Control for Visiting Spacecraft
 Maria Paez Segala — Janelia Research Campus
Optimization of Photoactivatable FPs for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy
2019 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Leslie Cummins — Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Technique using Commercially Available Reagents to Facilitate Immunolocalization via Epi-fluorescence and TEM
Pauline Mochama — University of Minnesota
Multiplex Immunolabeling and Imaging of Functionally Essential Kidney Structures in X-CLARITY-Cleared Tissue
Sara Dickens — Sandia National Laboratories
Identification of Twin Formation in Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel by In-Situ EBSD
Ann Johnson — The Dow Chemical Company
Failure Analysis of Polyethylene Products using Microscopy
2018 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Eric Formo** — University of Georgia
Utilizing Conventional and In Situ Electron Microscopy to Gain Insights Into the Release of Silver Nanomaterials in Aquatic Ecosystems
*Physical Sciences
Lisa Lowery** — Sandia National Laboratories
Vacuum-Assisted ex situ Lift Out for Plan View FIB Specimen Preparation
*Physical Sciences
Zhiyuan Lu** — Janelia Research Campus
Optimal Preparation of Drosophila Brain Samples for FIB-SEM
*Biological Sciences
Connon Thomas** — Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Light and Dark: Fluorescent and Electron Dense Labeling for Neuronal Cells Using a Novel Viral Vector
*Biological Sciences
2017 Professional Technical Staff Awards

Isabel N. Boona* — The Ohio State University
Correlative 3D Imaging and Characterization of Human Dentine
*Physical Sciences