Lewys Jones
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Lewys Jones is a physicist and materials scientist specializing in electron microscopy and ultramicroscopy. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, where he leads the Ultramicroscopy Group.[1][2] He is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society[3] and the founder and CEO of TurboTEM Ltd, a spin-out company focused on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) hardware innovations.[4]
Education
Jones received a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Materials Science from the University of Oxford in 2009, graduating with first-class honours. As part of his programme, he spent a year at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 2008 to 2009.[5][6]
He completed a PhD in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford in 2013, under the supervision of Professor Peter Nellist. His doctoral research focused on advanced electron microscopy techniques.[6][7]
Career
Jones began his research career as a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2008. After completing his PhD, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Oxford from 2013 to 2017.[8]
In 2017, he joined Trinity College Dublin as the Ussher Assistant Professor of Ultramicroscopy, and was promoted to Ussher Associate Professor in October 2024.[3] He holds a tenured position as Associate Professor and is a Royal Society–SFI University Research Fellow in the School of Physics.[9]
Since 2019, Jones has served as Director of the SFI-EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in the Advanced Characterization of Materials, which supports the training of 25 PhD students.[10] He became Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at Trinity College Dublin in November 2024. He has been a Funded Investigator at the AMBER research centre since 2022.[1]
Jones was the president of the Microscopy Society of Ireland (2021 - 2025) and is currently a committee member.[1] He is a board member of the European Microscopy Society (2024–present) and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (since 2015)[11][8]
Research
Jones is known for his work in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), low-dose imaging, 4D-STEM, detector hardware, and image processing algorithms. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to several major advances in electron microscopy.
His key contributions include:
- Event-responsive STEM - In 2024, Jones co-authored a paper in Science introducing a novel low-dose STEM imaging mode using probability-driven intrapixel beam blanking for high-fidelity imaging of beam-sensitive materials.[12]
- SmartAlign - Jones developed SmartAlign, a non-rigid registration plugin for DigitalMicrograph, used to correct drift and scan distortions in STEM and STM data.[13]
- Next-generation TEM - He was a co-author on a 2021 Nature Materials roadmap that outlined a future vision for AI and machine learning enabled TEM workflows, emphasising open and interoperable architectures, real-time feature extraction from complex datasets, adaptive closed-loop imaging, and standardized metadata for reproducibility across platforms.[14]
Entrepreneurship
Jones founded TurboTEM Ltd in October 2022, a Trinity College Dublin campus company commercialising innovative, modular, and retrofittable TEM hardware upgrades. The company has received innovation awards and has been featured in several media outlets.[15][16]
He has also co-developed two commercial software plug-ins for Digital Micrograph in collaboration with HREM Research.[17][13]
Awards and honours
- EMS Outstanding Paper Award – Materials Sciences Category (2015)[18]
- Macres Award for Best Instrumentation Paper, Microanalysis Society (2018)[19]
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, Microscopy & Microanalysis (2019)[20]
- Royal Society & SFI University Research Fellowship (2019)[9]
- Trinity Innovation Awards – "Ones to Watch" Category (2022)[21]
- Trinity Inventor Award (2023)[22]
External links
- TurboTEM Ltd
- Ultramicroscopy Group, Trinity College Dublin
- SFI-EPSRC CDT in the Advanced Characterization of Materials
- Microscopy Society of Ireland Committee
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Lewys Jones". Amber Centre. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Craig, Megan; M.Sc. (2023-08-28). "World's First User Adjustable Pole-Piece Electron Microscope Lens Installed". AZoM. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Lewys Jones'Trinity Research - Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ↑ "Event-responsive TEM: Focused on the fragile - 2024 - Wiley Analytical Science". Analytical Science Article DO Series. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Jones, Lewys. "LinkedIN Profile".
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Lewys Jones's Research Page: Home". www.lewysjones.com. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Jones, Lewys (2013). "Applications of Focal-series Data in Scanning-Transmission Electron Microscopy". University of Oxford.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "European Microscopy Society - Lewys Jones' CV" (PDF).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Science Foundation Ireland welcomes announcement of four prestigious Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellowships". Science Foundation Ireland. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Lewys Jones | CDT Advanced Materials Characterisation". www.cdt-acm.org. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Eurmisoc Board Members".
- ↑ Peters, Jonathan J. P.; Reed, Bryan W.; Jimbo, Yu; Noguchi, Kanako; Müller, Karin H.; Porter, Alexandra; Masiel, Daniel J.; Jones, Lewys (2024-08-02). "Event-responsive scanning transmission electron microscopy". Science. 385 (6708): 549–553. Bibcode:2024Sci...385..549P. doi:10.1126/science.ado8579. PMID 39088619 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ 13.0 13.1 "SmartAlign for DigitalMicrograph – HREM Research Inc". Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Spurgeon, Steven R.; Ophus, Colin; Jones, Lewys; Petford-Long, Amanda; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Olszta, Matthew J.; Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E.; Salmon, Norman; Hattar, Khalid; Yang, Wei-Chang D.; Sharma, Renu; Du, Yingge; Chiaramonti, Ann; Zheng, Haimei; Buck, Edgar C. (2021). "Towards data-driven next-generation transmission electron microscopy". Nature Materials. 20 (3): 274–279. Bibcode:2021NatMa..20..274S. doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00833-z. ISSN 1476-4660. PMC 8485843 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33106651 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "TurboTEM wins start-up award - 2023 - Wiley Analytical Science". Analytical Science News. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Innovation Awards finalist: TurboTEM - giving electron microscopes a turbo-boost". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "Uncovering atomic secrets - Resources". www.superstem.org. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "European Microscopy Society". www.eurmicsoc.org. Archived from the original on 2025-05-12. Retrieved 2025-06-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "2019 MAS Society Awards". Microanalysis Society. 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ "M&M 2019 Best Paper Awards". Microanalysis Society. 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "Trinity Innovation Awards - Trinity Innovation | Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ↑ Dublin, Trinity College. "Prof Lewys Jones wins the Inventor Award at the Trinity Innovation Awards - School of Physics | Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
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