Name Rafal Dunin-Borkowski | Fields Electron microscope | |
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Born Rafal Edward Dunin-Borkowski 3 August 1969 (age 55) ( 1969-08-03 ) Institutions RWTH Aachen UniversityTechnical University of DenmarkUniversity of OxfordArizona State UniversityUniversity of Cambridge Thesis Fresnel and high resolution techniques for the characterisation of ultrathin semiconductor layers (1994) | ||
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.