Paul Midgley#
| Membership Number: | 5704 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6817-458X |
Present and Previous Positions
- University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy:
- 2007 - present Professor of Materials Science
- 2018 - 2020 Head of Department
- 2003 - 2007 Reader in Electron Microscopy
- 2001 - 2003 University Senior Lecturer
- 2000 - 2001 University Lecturer
- 1997 - 2000 Assistant Director of Research
- University of Cambridge, Peterhouse:
- 2007 Professorial Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge
- 2000 - 2007 Official Fellow and College Lecturer, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Convergent beam electron diffraction
- Multi-dimensional electron microscopy
- Structure solution and refinement using electron crystallography
- Electron tomography
- Precession electron diffraction
- Electron energy loss spectroscopy and imaging
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy
- Nanoscale materials science
- 3D reconstructions using compressed sensing
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship
- 1994 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 2004 Institute of Materials Rosenhain Medal and Prize
- 2004 Federation of European Materials Societies Lecturer
- 2005 Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
- 2007 Ernst Ruska Prize, German Electron Microscopy Society (DGE)
- 2012 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2016 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
