Nigel Browning

Professor Nigel Browning is currently the Chair of Electron Microscopy in the School of Engineering, Director, Albert Crewe Centre for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy at the University of Liverpool (since 2017), and Director, Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging (RUEDI) Facility. 

He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Reading, UK (1988) and his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK (1991). He has held positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1992-1995), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2003-2006), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2006-2011) and most recently was a Laboratory Fellow and Initiative Lead for the Chemical Imaging Initiative (CII) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (2011-2017). He was also Assistant/Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2002) and Professor of Materials Science (2003-2011) and Professor of Molecular Biology (2009-2011) at the University of California-Davis. 

He has over 30 years of experience in the development of new methods in electron microscopy for high spatial, temporal and spectroscopic resolution analysis of engineering and biological structures.  He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Microscopy Society of America (MSA).  He received the Burton Award from the Microscopy Society of America in 2002 and the Coble Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2003 for the development of atomic resolution methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM).  With his collaborators at LLNL he also received R&D 100 and Nano 50 Awards in 2008, and a Microscopy Today Innovation Award in 2010 for the development of the dynamic transmission electron microscope (DTEM).  He has over 400 publications (~28,000 citations, h-index=90) and has given over 350 invited presentations on the development and application of advanced STEM/TEM methods.  For the past four years, he has also been working as a co-founder and Vice-President for Strategy at a start-up company (Nuxutra/Sivananthan Laboratories) that is commercializing intellectual property he co-developed on Inpainting for electron microscopy (>15 patents in total related to compressive sensing, super resolution and machine learning for advanced imaging technologies).