Professor Sarah Haigh

Sarah Haigh is a Professor of Materials Characterisation at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests centre on improving our understanding of nanomaterials structure and properties using transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging and analysis techniques. She has a particular interest in (i) advanced TEM characterisation of functional 2D materials and vertical stacked heterostructures and (ii) in developing in situ TEM imaging methods. Before moving to the University of Manchester in 2010 she worked as consultant application specialist to JEOL UK. She completed undergraduate and doctorate degrees in Material Science at the University of Oxford (2004 and 2008). In her doctoral studies she developed exit wave restoration techniques from series of high resolution TEM images under the supervision of Prof Angus Kirkland. She is an elected Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers and sits on their Material Science Committee and Venture Prize Committee. She was Chair of the Institute of Physics EMAG group (2016-2018) and EMAG Honorary Secretary and Treasurer (2014-2016) and a member of council for the RMS (2014-2018). She is Director of the University of Manchester’s Electron Microscopy Centre in the School of Natural Sciences. She is also Director of the bp International Centre for Advanced Materials an academic-industrial collaboration set up with $100M investment from bp and focused on research towards net zero. She has published more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers as an independent academic, including more than 45 as corresponding author, and 5 book chapters (H-index =68, over 22000 citations).

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My research group focuses on studying the structure and properties of nanomaterials using high resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging and spectroscopic analysis. Current research projects include:
·Imaging and analysis of novel 2D crystal heterostructure devices
·Developing optimal approaches for electron tomography to allow 3D structure and elemental analysis of complex nanostructured materials (with particular interest in the study of metal nanoparticles)
·Development and application of in-situ high spatial resolution energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy techniques to allow elemental analysis of nanomaterials transformations in liquids and gases
·Compositional analysis of nanoscale precipitates in high performance alloys using energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS).
·Ion induced degradation of nanomaterials and heterostructures