Jian-Min Zuo

Jian-Min Zuo is the Director of Monash Center for Electron Microscopy and Professor of Materilas Science and Engineering and Physics, Monash University. Prior to joinging Monash, Jian-Min was the Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Arizona State University (ASU) in 1989 and was a postdoc fellow in the NSF Center for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy from 1989 to 1993.  He and his research group pioneered the atomistic structure study of nanostructured materials, ultrafast electron diffraction, interfaces and chemical bonding, through the development of coherent electron nanodiffraction, aberration-corrected electron imaging and scanning electron nanodiffraction techniques. Prof. Zuo is a fellow of American Physical Society and Microscopy Society of America, a recipient of Ernst Ruska Prize of the German Society for Electron Microscopy and Gjonnes Award from International Union of Crystallography. He is the author, with Prof. John CH Spence of ASU, of the 2017 book, Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy: Imaging and Diffraction in Nanoscience, published by Springer.

Prof. Jian-Min Zuo is broadly interested in the exploration of materials' structure-property relationships through advanced characterization. His expertises include transmission electron microscopy, diffraction and spectroscopy, the study of materials' defects, thin-films and nanostructures characterization. His current research projects include:

-Advanced alloys, including high entropy alloys, their atomic structure and deformation mechanisms

-Hyperspectral electron scattering, including 4D-STEM, data collection, processing, machine learning, and applications for materials characterization

-Quantum materials, their excitations and magnetic, electronic and structural phases

-Semiconductor device metrology, strain, doping, defects

-Energy materials, including battery materials, and their structural properties and relation to performance

-Low-dimensional materials, their electronic structure and interfaces