Presentation: Challenging structure solution from powder diffraction data: The EXPO software

Angela Altomare is Research Director at the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, in Bari. Her research activity, carried out over more than 30 years, is mainly devoted to the development and application of innovative crystallographic methodologies for the structural characterization of crystalline compounds, from single crystal and microcrystalline powder diffraction data. Angela is President of the Italian Crystallographic Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the IUCr, a member of the Commission for the participation of CNR to the IUCr, Section Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section A: Advances and Foundations, a member of the European Powder Diffraction Conference Committee, Co-editor of Acta Cryst. A. She has published more than 150 papers in scholarly journals and 10 chapters of books. She is a co-author of twelve crystallographic computing programs. Her articles have gained a number of citations greater than 27000.

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Presentation: Limits of lab XRD and average crystal structure concepts – when studying energy and related functional materials

David Billing is a Full Professor in Chemistry and Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His research focusses on the structure-property-performance nexus of energy materials. Principally utilising in situ XRD methods in conjunction with total scattering techniques to gain insight into both average and local structure of the materials of interest. Increasingly adding XAS, computational and other techniques in a multimodal approach to gain a more fundamental understanding of the structural features that governs the properties of functional materials of great societal importance. Synchrotron based techniques are central to these endeavours, and in addition to the NSLS-II he has completed measurements at ESRF, DLS and SSRL. He is the current Chairperson of the IUCr’s Commission for Powder Diffraction and a member of APS’s Structure Science Proposal Review Panel

Presentation: Structure determination of common Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients

Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she studied Chemistry at Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) in Mérida, Venezuela, and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Brandeis University, USA, in 1988. In 1989 she joined the Crystallography Laboratory at ULA where she is Full Professor of Chemistry. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the IUCr, the Board of Directors of ICDD, and is Section Editor of Acta Crystallographica E. Her research interests include the structure determination of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) by single crystal and powder diffraction.

Presentation: Looking at the phase transitions during the thermal synthesis of metal oxides used in Li-ion batteries

I am an associate professor in the department of chemistry at the Nelson Mandela University. My work includes lecturing in the subject areas of Physical Chemistry to undergraduate and postgraduate students. I am a C2 rated scientist with the National Research Foundation. Research work is primarily in the field of electrochemistry, batteries (lead acid and Li-ion) and materials study using powder X-ray diffraction. I am currently a research advisor for the energy storage group for uYilo, the national electric vehicle programme located at the Nelson Mandela University.

Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

Presentation: Empowered Catalyst Supports

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
DSI-NRF SARChI research chair in Sustainable Catalysis
Deputy Director Catalysis Institute

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Grenoble, France

Presentation: Synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction

Andy Fitch is responsible for the high-resolution powder diffraction beamline, ID22, at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

BASF SE

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Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck

Chemistry, The University of Sydney

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Bruker AXS

Materials Science & Engineering, Alfred University

Alfred, USA

Presentation: Total Scattering (PDF) and/or INon-Ambient Studies

Misture presently holds an Inamori professorship and a SUNY Distinguished Professorship at Alfred University, having served on the faculty for 22 years. His earlier experience includes a few years at Oak Ridge National lab and time in Germany at Siemens Corporate Research. Misture’s research interests center on understanding how ceramic and glasses can be used to improve energy efficiency and reduce environmental impacts of modern society. He develops and applies advanced materials characterization tools to understand the effects of structure at the atomic and nanometer scales to understand existing materials and to invent new materials and understand their properties. His research has centered on ceramics for energy conversion, including materials for high temperature fuel cells, materials for energy storage in batteries and supercapacitors, and also materials for capturing, storing and converting environmental pollutants and chemical feedstocks.

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Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee

Knoxville, USA

Presentation: Nanostructure in Compositionally Complex Oxides

Katharine Page is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and a Joint Faculty member with the Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She works at the intersection of functional energy materials research and the advancement of x-ray and neutron scattering methods. This includes ventures to understand and control local to long-range ordering in ferroelectric ceramics, energy conversion materials, and nanoscale catalysts, among other topics. She received her PhD in 2008 from the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kate was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow and an Instrument Scientist at the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory through 2014, and then an Instrument Scientist within the Diffraction Group at ORNL until 2019. She is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Award, NSF Career Award, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

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SLAC National Accelerator Lab

Menlo Park, USA

Presentation: Using X-ray Diffraction to Understand Materials Synthesis

Kevin Stone is a staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, USA. He supports a suite of X-ray scattering beamlines for materials science with a special focus on in-situ and operando experiments.

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Scientific facility diffraction, MPI-FKF

Stuttgart, Germany

Presentation: Structural analysis of disordered polymers and microporous materials

I am a materials scientist working at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Interests include the use of total scattering and diffraction methods to study structuring of disordered materials.