David Grinter

David Grinter is currently a senior beamline scientist at the VerSoX beamline at Diamond Light Source, (UK) where he has spent the past 5 years building a new beamline (B07-B) for ambient pressure X-ray absorption and high-throughput X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Prior to his appointment at Diamond, Dave held post-doctoral positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory (NY, USA) in the Chemistry department, working with Jose Rodriguez in the Catalysis: Structure & Reactivity Group and as part of the Thornton group at University College London (UK), where he also received his PhD.

His research interests include the study of the atomic scale surface structure and reactivity of oxides and nanomaterials for applications in energy generation and catalysis, and the implementation and development of novel cutting-edge microscopic and spectroscopic experimental techniques.