Jo Verbeeck

phone: +32 3 265 32 49, fax: +32 3 265 33 18, e-mail : jo.verbeeck@ua.ac.be

Personal data & Academic degrees

• Place & date of birth: Bonheiden (Belgium), 11-7-1972
• Industrial Engineer electronics and telecommunication
• Ph.D. Physics: 27.06.2002 (University of Antwerp) "Electron energy loss spectroscopy of nanoscale materials"

Scientific career

• 1998-2002: Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Antwerp (IUAP 4/10)
• 2001: visiting student at Cornell University (USA)
• 2002-now: Postdoc Researcher at the University of Antwerp
• 2006-2007: visiting scientist at the TU Vienna ( Austria )
• 2011 ERC starting grant winner VORTEX: 'Exploring electron vortices'
• Ernst Ruska Prize winner 2011 for the work on ‘EELS quantification and electron vortex beams'

Scientific activities

• Over 90 publications in international journals with referee system
• Invited speaker at numerous international conferences
• Over 700 citations
• Author of the EELSMODEL program to quantify EELS spectra
• Participant in different national and international projects, among which
  • GOA (UA): Xanes meets ELNES
  • IFOX (EU, FP7): ‘Interfacing oxides'
  • ERC starting grant (EU, FP7): VORTEX exploring electron vortex beams
  • FWO (Flanders): Metal based nucleation layers for the growth of nanocrystalline diamond

Main topics of interest

• Electron vortices and topological effects in the TEM
• Coherence issues in inelastic scattering
• Inelastic image simulation for STEM EELS and EFTEM
• Electronic structure mapping at atomic resolution
• Magnetic mapping at atomic resolution
• Complex oxide materials
• Magnetic materials
• Diamond and related materials
• Quantitative EELS on the nanoscale (see EELSMODEL page)

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