MCM 2019
14th Multinational Congress on Microscopy

September 15-20, 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia

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Lecturers

KEYNOTE: Prof. Dr. Velimir R. Radmilovic

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  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, Belgrade, Serbia
  • University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Nanotechnology and Functional Materials Center, Karnegijeva 4, Belgrade, Serbia
  • “Atomistic Phenomena in Nanostructures for Energy Related Applications”

Biography

Professor Radmilovic earned his Ph.D. in Physical Metallurgy from the University of Belgrade in 1985. Beginning in 1986, he served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of materials science at the University of California at Berkeley, and subsequently accepted an academic appointment at the University of Belgrade in 1987. That same year, 1987, he was selected as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, instructing students in courses focused on transmission electron microscopy and microanalysis. During 1992, he held a visiting professor position in the Department for Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 2000 and 2010, he worked as a staff scientist and principal investigator at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and participated in the team responsible for creating and putting into operation advanced transmission electron aberration-corrected microscopes (TEAM Project). He went back to the University of Belgrade in 2011. His scholarly pursuits concentrate on solid state phase transformations and interfaces, structure-property relationships in engineering materials, application of high resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy, bolstered by computational modeling and simulation, particularly in the examination of nanomaterials—encompassing nanowires, thin films for MEMS and NEMS, graphene and carbon nanotube based nanocomposites and devices, thermoelectrics, catalysts, solar cells, and others. His scholarly contributions comprise more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings, alongside over 100 invited talks, and he has coordinated numerous symposia, workshops and international meetings. His contributions have accrued more than 10000 citations with an H index of 49. Professor Radmilović has received numerous honors, which include: Fulbright Scholar, Outstanding performance award from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, the Belgrade City Award for Natural and Technical Sciences, The European Microscopy Society Outstanding Paper Award, the Outstanding scientist award given by the Ministry of Science and Education of Government of Serbia, Honorary Member of Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia, and Corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

PLENARY: Dr. Vincenzo Grillo

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  • Istituto di Nanoscienze, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Modena, Italy
  • “Quantum Sorting: a new paradigm of quantum measurement in electron microscopy”

Biography

Dr. Grillo completed his physics degree from the University of Genova with top honors (110/110 cum laude). His doctoral work in electron microscopy was undertaken at the University of Parma, including collaborative research at Erlangen University (Germany). During 2001, he worked as a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, focusing on cathodoluminescence in TEM. From 2003 onward, he has held positions at the INFM (subsequently integrated into CNR), presently as a Senior Fellow Researcher in electron microscopy. His innovations include creating novel TEM-STEM approaches and being the first to report quantitative STEM applications utilizing a HAADF detector for chemical analyses. His current work encompasses Vortex beams and holographic beam generation. Together with his research group, he stands among the world's foremost specialists in this field, particularly regarding phase holograms, large vortex beams and the theory of spin-orbit coupling with vortex. A visiting researcher position at the University of Oregon was held in 2015. In 2016, he was awarded the Humboldt Foundation's BESSEL research award recognizing his contributions to Beam shaping. Beginning in 2017, he has served as the Scientific Coordinator for the Q-SORT project, which receives support from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 766970 (H2020-FETOPEN-1-2016-2017). Dr. Grillo has co-authored a minimum of 100 articles and 5 book chapters. His publications have an H-factor of 32.

PLENARY: Prof. Dr. Saverio Cinti

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  • Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Center of Obesity University of Ancona (Politecnica delle Marche), Ancona, Italy
  • “Anatomy and Physiology of The Nutritional System”

Biography

SC received his Medicine&Surgery (MD) degree from Padua University in 1974. Starting from 1977, he has been employed at the Marche Polytechnic University, serving as Full Professor of Anatomy from 1986 onwards. The focus of his research has primarily been centered on obesity and diabetes, resulting in the publication of more than 290 scientific papers on these subjects within the international literature (PubMed). Additionally, he authored a book and contributed chapters (13) to several internationally distributed publications. His contributions to science have received more than 30,000 citations (Google Scholar, Scopus: 21,000), with an H index = 76 (Google Scholar, Scopus: 66). He has delivered more than 60 invited lectures at leading universities across the globe. He served as a visiting professor at Harvard University in Boston during 2011 and at the University of Copenhagen in 2013. Over the past decade, he obtained public funding exceeding two million Euros (primarily European sources). He possesses three patents. Among his recognitions are: The medal Blaise Pascal in biology from the European Academy of Sciences (Brussels 2008) and the Wasserman Award from the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) (Liverpool 2013). During 2014, the European Federation Experimental Morphology selected him to present a lectio magistralis at the World Congress of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (Peking). A major career highlight involves his invitation to present at the 134th Nobel Symposium "The Adipocyte a Multifunctional Cell" in Gothenburg during 2006. From 1st April 2018, he has held an affiliated position as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology of The Adipose Organ at University of Copenhagen.

PLENARY: Prof. Dr. Igor Weber

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  • Division of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
  • “Microscoping the amoeboid cell motility”

Biography

Igor Weber obtained his BSc in physics at the University of Zagreb and PhD at the Technical University Munich (1995). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried until joining the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb (2002). The focus of his research over the past 25 years has been the study of eukaryotic cell motility using Dictyostelium amoeba as a model system. In conjunction with the tools of molecular biology and biochemistry, he has been applying diverse imaging modalities to investigate dynamics and regulation of the actin cytoskeleton, recently focusing on the role of small Rho and Ras GTPases. Igor Weber is currently head of the Laboratory of cell biophysics at RBI and elected professor at the Universities of Zagreb and Split, where he teaches Microscopy, Cell biophysics and Function and regulation of the cytoskeleton. He also coordinates the user facility for confocal microscopy at RBI. Igor Weber co-chaired the ELMI and MCM conferences in 2017, presided over the Croatian microscopy society (2012-2016), and presently is a member of the European Microscopy Society Executive Board. More details are available at https://www.irb.hr/eng/People/Igor-Weber

PLENARY: Dr. András Kovács

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  • Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
  • “Using off-axis electron holography to measure magnetic properties of materials”

Biography

Dr. András Kovács earned his PhD degree in Physics from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, which he obtained in 2005 while investigating thin film growth and nanocrystals using transmission electron microscopy. The beginning of his academic career occurred at the Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science in Budapest (Hungary). Positions as a post-doctoral scientist were held at Osaka University (Japan), University of Oxford (U.K.), and Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), where he conducted investigations into the structural and magnetic characterization of magnetic materials through advanced electron microscopy techniques. Since 2011, he has been employed at the Ernst Ruska-Centre, attaining the position of staff scientist in 2015. Dr Kovács pursues investigations into magnetism and magnetic materials via off-axis electron holography conducted in the transmission electron microscope. His ongoing investigations concentrate on quantitative magnetic imaging of magnetic skyrmions and nanostructures, in situ electron microscopy studies of magnetic meteorites, soft and hard magnetic alloys. He serves as author or co-author on more than 120 publications and has delivered more than 50 invited talks and seminars.

PLENARY: Prof. Dr. Goran Dražić

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  • Department of Materials Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • “Quantitative Cs corrected STEM of local structures in lead-free ferroelectrics”

Biography

Goran Dražić serves as a senior scientist and head of the microscopy group at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia and holds a professorship at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, where he instructs in transmission electron microscopy and advises post-graduate researchers. His research interests focus on the development and characterization of catalyst materials for photocatalysis and fuel-cells, as well as advancing transmission and scanning-transmission electron microscopy for studying advanced materials. He completed his Ph.D. in relaxor materials in 1990 at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and held visiting scientist positions at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany in 1990 and 1991. He has led four national research projects and chaired or co-chaired five EU projects alongside various industrial collaborations. His publication record encompasses more than 250 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 20 keynote presentations at international conferences and symposia. He was recognized in 2000 with the Zois Recognition of the Republic of Slovenia for "outstanding scientific achievements in the field of electron microscopy".