Prof. Ian K. Robinson [foreign 1000-plan professor in Tongji University]

Title: Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging for Nano-Materials Investigation

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm, April 18, Saturday
Place: Conference room 201, Building 6, HPSTAR (Shanghai)
Host: Wenge Yang

Biography of the Speaker:

Prof. Ian Robinson, UK citizen. He has a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, UK and received his PhD from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in 1981. Until 1992, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ, USA), after which he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. In 2006 he was appointed professor at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London. Robinson is also a Diamond Fellow at the Research Complex at Harwell, Oxford, UK.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize for 2015 to Prof. Ian Robinson, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, and Research Complex at Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK, "for his development of diffraction methods for studying surfaces and nanomaterials".

Please follow this link for detail info: http://www.kva.se/en/pressroom/Press-releases-2014/Gregori-Aminoff-Prize-2015/