Year: 2024

Results of the competition announced by the Polish Society of Microscopy for the best PhD work submitted to the EM’24 conference.

The first of all, the Polish Society of Microscopy would like to thank all the Participants for their submitted works. Fourteen works were sent to the competition, announced by the PSM for the best abstract by a PhD student. The Competition Committee, consisting of six members of the Advisory Board, assessed the works based on the following criteria: originality of research, clarity of the research goal, adequacy of applied research methodology to solve the scientific problem, clarity of the results description, quality of conclusions, innovation of the research topic, scientific and practical significance of the results, relevance to the conference topic. According to the Experts’ evaluations, all submitted works revealed high cognitive and scientific levels. However, based on the ranking list, the Polish Society of Microscopy is honoured to announce that the winners of the award are:
• Olha Khshanovska,
“An in-situ TEM study of crystallization pathways of single AuGe nanoparticles”
Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science,
AGH University of Krakow;
• Karolina Wójciak
“Precision and accuracy during standard-less mapping of local lattice distortions using EBSD and CALM technique”
Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology ,
AGH – University of Krakow.

The prize for both Laureates is the conference fee coverage for the 18th International Conference on Electron Microscopy EM’2024 (9-12 June 2024, Zakopane).
The Management Board of PSM would like to thank all Participants and congratulate the Winners.

Two Postdoctoral Positions in Electron Microscopy at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal,
Two positions are now open in the research group of Prof. Paulo Ferreira (https://www.inl.int/community/paulo-ferreira/) to work on the following topics:
1. Li-ion batteries

This research is funded by the recovery and resilience plan of Portugal under the new generation storage agenda and focuses on understanding solid state thin film batteries, as well as battery electrodes produced from recycling, by advanced electron microscopy. See announcement here (https://careers.inl.int/our-vacancies/?p=job%2ForDDlfwM).

2. Novel Transistors Based on 2D and 3D Dirac materials

This research is part of a Horizon EU Research and Innovation grant and focuses on
developing scalable Dirac transistor technology based on large area integration of 2D and
3D Dirac materials. In particular, the idea is to understand the role of interfaces and defects
in Dirac semimetal/semiconductor systems, via advanced transmission electron microscopy
studies and correlations with device data and models. See announcement here
(https://careers.inl.int/our-vacancies/?p=job%2Fo9Czqfwu).
The candidates interested in these two positions can submit an application by following the link

OUR VACANCIES

The Polish Society of Microscopy announces a competition for the best abstract by a PhD student submitted to the EM’2024 conference. The candidate should register as a participant by sending an abstract via the conference website (https://em2024.pl/). The condition for participation in the competition is to send the abstract by e-mail to the address of the PSM secretary (maciej.zubko@us.edu.pl) with the note “Ph.D. students awards.” The deadline for submitting works is February 15th, 2024.

The Competition Committee will assess abstracts regarding compliance with the conference theme, scientific quality, innovation, and scientific importance. In the competition, there are two awards: conference fee waiver.