Angus Ian Kirkland

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FRSC FRMS (born August 1965) is the

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of Electron Microscopy at the

Department of Materials, University of Oxford The Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England was founded in the 1950s as the ''Department of Metallurgy'', by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry. It is part of the universi ...

. Professor Kirkland specialises in

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy High-resolution transmission electron microscopy is an imaging mode of specialized transmission electron microscopes that allows for direct imaging of the atomic structure of samples. It is a powerful tool to study properties of materials on the ...

and

Scanning transmission electron microscopy A scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is a type of transmission electron microscope (TEM). Pronunciation is tɛmor �sti:i:ɛm As with a conventional transmission electron microscope (CTEM), images are formed by electrons passing ...

Early life and education

Kirkland completed a

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, and a

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and PhD at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

in 1989.

Research and career

Kirkland continued at

Cavendish Laboratory The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is name ...

as post-doctoral fellow until he became Senior Research Associate. He was later elected the Ramsay Memorial Trust Research Fellow. He then moved to the

where he has led Oxford Electron Image Analysis Group since 2003. He was appointed as professor in 2005, and became the

of Electron Microscopy in 2011. He was the co-director of the University of Oxford’s

David Cockayne David John Hugh Cockayne FRS FInstP (19 March 1942 – 22 December 2010) was Professor in the physical examination of materials in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow at Linacre College from 2000 to ...

Centre. Kirkland research focuses on developing new quantitative techniques for ultra high-resolution

electron microscopy An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a ...

, and new imaging detectors. His research also include developing analysis and simulation. He researches nanomaterials inorganic oxides structure and surfaces. The development of new detectors, e.g., Transmission Electron Aberration-Corrected Microscope. Angus Kirkland has an illustrious career with publications in

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and

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. He led collaborations and grants valued in £million. As of November 2022, he is the Science Director at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and the electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at

Diamond Light Source Diamond Light Source (or Diamond) is the UK's national synchrotron light source science facility located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. Its purpose is to produce intense beams of light whose special characteristi ...

. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of

Ultramicroscopy ''Ultramicroscopy'' is an established peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of electron microscopy. The journal editor-in-chief is Professor Angus Kirkland and it is published by Elsevier. It provides a forum for the publication of origina ...

Awards and honours

Kirkland is a Fellow of the

Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...

(

), the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

( FRSC), and the

Royal Microscopical Society The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. It was founded in 1839 as the Microscopical Society of London making it the oldest organisation of its kind in the world. In 1866, the society gained its ...

( FRMS). Kirkland was awarded the

Microscopy Society of America The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) was founded in 1942 as The Electron Microscope Society of America and is a non-profit organization that provides microanalytical facilities for studies within the sciences. Currently, there are approximately 3 ...

Award for the best paper published (2005). In 2015, he was awarded the

Harald Rose Harald Rose (born 14 February 1935 in Bremen) is a German physicist. Rose received in 1964 his physics Diplom in theoretical electron optics under Otto Scherzer at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 1976 to 1980 he was principal rese ...

Distinguished Lecture Prize. He also received the RMS Alan Agar Medal in 2017. In 2012, Kirkland was appointed as an Honorary Professor at the centre of

HRTEM High-resolution transmission electron microscopy is an imaging mode of specialized transmission electron microscopes that allows for direct imaging of the atomic structure of samples. It is a powerful tool to study properties of materials on the a ...

Nelson Mandela University Nelson Mandela University (formerly known as ''Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)'' ) and before that - the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE), the Port Elizabeth Technikon and Vista University's Port Elizabeth campus. This South Af ...

, South Africa.

Selected publications

* Huilong Fei, Juncai Dong, Yexin Feng, Christopher S. Allen, Chengzhang Wan, Boris Volosskiy, Mufan Li, Zipeng Zhao, Yiliu Wang, Hongtao Sun, Pengfei An, Wenxing Chen, Zhiying Guo, Chain Lee, Dongliang Chen, Imran Shakir, Mingjie Liu, Tiandou Hu, Yadong Li, Angus I. Kirkland, Xiangfeng Duan, Yu Huang (2018-01)
General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities
''

Nature Catalysis ''Nature Catalysis'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2018. The editor-in-chief is Davide Esposito. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * Compend ...

''. 1 (1): 63–72. doi:10.1038/s41929-017-0008-y.

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2520-1158. * Alex W. Robertson, Christopher S. Allen, Yimin A. Wu, Kuang He, Jaco Olivier, Jan Neethling, Angus I. Kirkland, Jamie H. Warner (2012-10-23)
Spatial control of defect creation in graphene at the nanoscale
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Nature Communications ''Nature Communications'' is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010. It is a multidisciplinary journal and it covers the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, earth sciences, medicine, ...

''. 3 (1): 1144. doi:10.1038/ncomms2141.

2041-1723. * Lele Peng, Ziyang Wei, Chengzhang Wan, Jing Li, Zhuo Chen, Dan Zhu, Daniel Baumann, Haotian Liu, Christopher S. Allen, Xiang Xu, Angus I. Kirkland, Imran Shakir, Zeyad Almutairi, Sarah Tolbert, Bruce Dunn, Yu Huang, Philippe Sautet, Xiangfeng Duan (2020-09)
A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction
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''. 3 (9): 762–770. doi:10.1038/s41929-020-0498-x.

2520-1158. * Meyer, Rüdiger R.; Sloan, Jeremy; Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E.; Kirkland, Angus I.; Novotny, Miles C.; Bailey, Sam R.; Hutchison, John L.; Green, Malcolm L. H. (2000-08-25)
Discrete Atom Imaging of One-Dimensional Crystals Formed Within Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
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''. 289 (5483): 1324–1326. doi:10.1126/science.289.5483.1324.

0036-8075. * Warner, Jamie H.; Margine, Elena Roxana; Mukai, Masaki; Robertson, Alexander W.; Giustino, Feliciano; Kirkland, Angus I. (2012-07-13)
Dislocation-Driven Deformations in Graphene
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''. 337 (6091): 209–212. doi:10.1126/science.1217529.

0036-8075.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirkland, Angus Microscopists Living people British materials scientists Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Institute of Physics Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1965 births