Dr Amanda Petford-Long
"Exploring the energy landscape of magnetic nanostructures using Lorentz microscopy and magnetic force microscopy"
Biography:
Dr. Amanda K. Petford-Long is the Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a Department of Energy national user facility at Argonne National Laboratory. The CNM provides capabilities explicitly tailored to the creation and characterization of new functional materials on the nanoscale. She holds a D.Phil in Materials Science from University of Oxford (1985) and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from University College, London (1981). She moved to Argonne in 2005 from the University of Oxford where she was a Reader in the Materials Department and a tutorial fellow at Corpus Christi College. Dr. Petford-Long’s research interests include the dependence of magnetic, transport and optical properties of layered ferroic films and nanostructures on microstructure and composition. She has been particularly involved in exploring the physical properties of the nanomaterials, such as magnetic domain behavior and transport behavior, using in-situ transmission electron microscopy techniques including Lorentz microscopy. She has published over 290 papers in the scientific literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the American Physical Society, and is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. She is also a full professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Northwestern University, where she is active in graduate teaching.