What can be seen with the electron microscope? Brno as the pride of the Czech Republic in the field of electron microscopy and the Electron Microscope Valley? Czech Scientist, Dr. Eliška Materna Mikmeková will speak about these interesting topics.
Tuesday November 9 at 7 PM ET
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Eliška Materna Mikmeková is a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where she has been focusing on applications of advanced low energy electron microscopic/spectroscopic methods in (nano)-materials science. She is the head of Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Surfaces group at the department of Electron Microscopy in the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She received Ph.D. in Physics in 2014 at the Masaryk University in Brno. After that, she went on with working as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Thermo Fisher Scientific in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In 2017 she became a group leader in the Electron Microscopy department at the Institute of Scientific Instruments. She has published over 40 research papers focused on applications of low energy scanning electron microscopy in material science with more than 900 citations. In 2018 she finished her MBA studies at Cambridge Business School – Management and Leaderships.
Brno - Electron Microscopy Valley
Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, has emerged as the leader in the Electron Microscopy (EM) field, and now is responsible for 35% of the world’s production of these sophisticated scientific instruments. The origins of the electron microscopy boom in Brno can be traced back to 1950s when the world’s first commercially available tabletop electron microscope (Tesla BS242) was developed at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The institute remains at the forefront of EM technology development and applications in nano-material science especially thanks to the Scanning Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SLEEM). This technique and its applications will be presented in the talk.
Czech Science Café New York is a series of popular science presentations and talks by the best Czech scientists of today presented by the Czech Center New York.
