Name Rafal Dunin-Borkowski | Fields Electron microscope | |
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Born Rafal Edward Dunin-Borkowski
3 August 1969 (age 54) ( 1969-08-03 ) Institutions RWTH Aachen University
Technical University of Denmark
University of Oxford
Arizona State University
University of Cambridge Alma mater University of Cambridge (PhD) Thesis Fresnel and high resolution techniques for the characterisation of ultrathin semiconductor layers (1994) | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
Rafal Edward Dunin-Borkowski (born 1969) is a British experimental physicist. He is currently Director of the Institute for Microstructure Research (PGI-5) and the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C) in Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor of Experimental Physics in RWTH Aachen University.
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Education
Rafal Dunin-Borkowski was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1994 for research into semiconductors.
Research
His research involves the development of quantitative techniques in electron microscopy and has recently focused on the use of off-axis electron holography to study magnetic and electrostatic fields in nanoscale materials, thin films and devices.
Awards and honours
He received the Ernst Ruska Prize 2009, jointly with M R McCartney and T Kasama and several awards for Science as Art.