Ondrej Krivanek
Ondrej Krivanek has advanced electron microscopy (EM) by developing instruments such as electron energy loss spectrometers, imaging filters, aberration correctors, monochromators, and whole electron microscopes, which have endowed EM with extraordinary new capabilities. He and his collaborators have introduced new experimental techniques such as imaging and spectroscopy of light atoms using annular dark field STEM, EELS and EDXS, and vibrational spectroscopy carried out in the electron microscope. Research made possible by these advances includes imaging and analyzing the bonding properties of single light atoms, and analyzing the vibrational properties of materials with spatial resolution reaching the single-atom level.
Ondrej is also known for co-founding and leading Nion Company, a maker of advanced electron microscope, acquired by Bruker Corporation in 2024. He is currently Senior Scientific Advisor in the Electron Microscopy Unit of Bruker AXS, Affiliate Professor at Arizona State University, and Fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge UK. His work has been honored by several prizes, fellowships and honorary doctorates, including an election to the UK Royal Society and the US Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and the 2020 Kavli Prize for Nanoscience.
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