Rate My Professor Paul Midgley

Midgley's research centers on the development and application of advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques, including electron tomography, precession electron diffraction (PED and SPED), and monochromated STEM-EELS for nano-plasmonics, enabling high-resolution 2D and 3D characterization of materials' structure, composition, and properties. His work spans nanoscale structures in semiconductors, catalysts, nanoparticles, MOFs, pharmaceuticals, and more, with innovations like compressed sensing algorithms and machine learning for multi-dimensional data analysis. Notable publications include "Electron tomography and holography in materials science" (Nature Materials, 2009), "3D Morphology of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Reactive Concave Surfaces – a Compressed Sensing-Electron Tomography (CS-ET) Approach" (Nano Letters, 2011), "Three-Dimensional Imaging of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Metal Nanoparticles" (Nature, 2013), and "Measurement of molecular motion in organic semiconductors by thermal diffuse electron scattering" (Nature Materials, 2013). He has received the Rosenhain Medal and Prize (2004), Ernst-Ruska Prize (2007), election as Fellow of the Royal Society (2014), and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society (2016). Midgley served as President of the European Microscopy Society (2008-2012) and Past-President (2012-2016), and was Editor-in-Chief of Ultramicroscopy for many years.