Quentin Ramasse

Quentin is the Director of the SuperSTEM Laboratory, the UK National Research Facility for Advanced Electron Microscopy, and holds the Chair of Advanced Electron Microscopy jointly at the School of Chemical and Process Engineering and the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, U.K.

After a MEng in France at the Ecole Centrale Paris and a MMaths at the University of Cambridge, he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2005 working on optical aberration measurements methodologies for aberration-corrected STEM. Before taking up his post at SuperSTEM he held a Staff Scientist position at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) in Berkeley, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded user facility where he took part in the TEAM project. As the director of SuperSTEM for the last 15 years, Quentin has masterminded the facility’s adoption of emerging technologies for the benefit or its user community, commissioning for instance one of the first meV-capable instrument in the world. He has pioneered single-atom core-loss and vibrational spectroscopy, nanoscale momentum-resolved EELS and real-space orbital mapping in the STEM. He was awarded the Royal Microscopical Society Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award and was recently the recipient of the European Microscopy Society Award for Physical Sciences, which highlighted his contributions to the development of advanced electron microscopy.