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Dr Chris Boothroyd
Senior Principal Research Fellow of the Facility for Analysis, Characterization, Testing and Simulation (FACTS) at Nanyang Technological UniversityChris Boothroyd is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Facility for analysis characterisation testing and simulation (FACTS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In the past he worked in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, at IMRE, Singapore, at the Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark and at the Jülich research centre (Forschungszentrum Jülich) in Germany. His research interests cover a wide variety of topics related to electron microscopy including aberration-corrected microscopy, energy-loss spectroscopy and electron holography.
Dr Alexander Bright
Asia Business Development Manager, Materials Science Electron Microscopy at Thermo Fisher ScientificAlex Bright is the Business Development Manager for Materials Science Electron Microscopy Products in Asia Pacific and a TEM (transmission electron microscopy) product marketing specialist. He has been based in Japan for almost 20 years and worked in the semiconductor industry before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2005. He has given many scientific presentations around Japan and Asia and written scientific papers and articles on a variety of topics related mainly to TEM and STEM technology, techniques and applications.
Alex holds a masters degree in Materials Science and a PhD in Electron Microscopy, both from Cambridge University.
Professor Silvija Gradecak-Garaj
Materials Science and Engineering Department and Electron Microscopy Facility at National University of SingaporeSilvija Gradečak-Garaj is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NUS, where she founded a University-level Center for Electron Microscopy and Materials Characterization Laboratory. Since 2020, she has been the lead PI and co-Director of the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab. From 2019-2020, she also served as a Director within the Office of a Deputy President for Research and Technology at NUS.
Prof. Gradečak started her academic career in 2006 at MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and reached Full Professorship in 2017. She obtained her M.S. and PhD in Physics from the University of Zagreb and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, respectively. In 2003, she was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researchers and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Prof. Gradečak is a member of the NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences & Engineering and was a PI within the Low Energy Electronics Interdisciplinary Research Program under the SMART centre of CREATE Singapore.
Prof. Gradečak is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, 3M Innovation Award, Inaugural 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship, and MIT Graduate Materials Council Outstanding Teaching Award, among others.