Dr Neil Wilson
"Mapping atomic structure and functional properties in two-dimensional materials"
Biography:
Dr Neil Wilson graduated from the Natural Sciences Tripos at Pembroke College Cambridge in 1999. He won a Thouron scholarship to study for a Masters in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, before returning to the UK to complete a PhD in Physics at the University of Warwick on the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and their applications in scanning probe microscopy. Following postdoctoral positions in electrochemistry and nanotube growth, in October 2007 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Warwick University. Since 2012, he has been an Associate Professor in the Microscopy Group at the University of Warwick. His current research interests are in the areas of nanocarbon (including the synthesis, structure and applications of graphene and chemically modified graphene), molecular electronics, and scanning probe and electron microscopy. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers since finishing his PhD, including as first or corresponding author in journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.