Applied Crystallography

Dr. ZhiLi Dong received his BEng and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University, China. Dong completed his Ph.D. thesis at Tsinghua University and Osaka University under the Joint PhD Program of Ministry of Education of China. Dong was trained as a materials engineer and scientist during his undergraduate and postgraduate study at Tsinghua University China and Osaka University Japan. He subsequently developed his research in the areas of materials engineering, crystal structure/electronic structure-property relationships, and interface structure analysis. He has about thirty years experience in x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy of materials. Prior to joining the School of Materials Science & Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Dong worked at the Environmental Technology Institute of Singapore as a senior research scientist, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering of NTU as a research fellow, the University of Barcelona as a visiting professor, and Tsinghua University as a lecturer.

Dong’s research interest mainly focuses on (1) metallic and ceramics materials, and (2) crystallography, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy of materials.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey in Solid State Physics. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. He shifted to Firat University in 1980, and became professor in 1996, and He has already been working as professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions of oral or poster. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last three years (2014 - 2016) over 20 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), web: http://saise.org/, Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), web: http://www.sciei.org, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, web: http://www.iacsit.org/, The Academic World Education and Research Center (AWER-Center), web: http://www.awer-center.org/, and other institutes and companies. He joined as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair at 10 conferences held in 2017. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 Ph.D.- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also a Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of the significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates the cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Osman Adiguzel'S research interest focuses on martensitic phase transformations and shapes memory effect and applications to copper-based shape memory alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and crystallography, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

Hudson received his bachelors and masters degrees from the California Institute of Technology in Chemistry and Biophysical Chemistry respectively and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University in 1972. Hisx thesis research with Roy Gordon involved the computation of inelastic neutron scattering spectra and that with Bryan E. Kohler involved the electronic spectroscopy of linear conjugated polyenes. He is the author of over 200 publications and has served on NIH and NSF review panels.

Dr.Bruce's research interest focuses on Physical chemistry; biophysical chemistry; quantum chemistry and inelastic neutron scattering applied to molecular solids; fluorescence; solid-state preparation of polyacetylene

Dean Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska is leading the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee since January 2014. In 1993 she relocated from Arizona to Wisconsin to join the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she holds the rank of Professor in the Physics Department. In addition to her many teaching, research and outreach interests and activities, Dean Gajdardziska-Josifovska has extensive prior service in faculty governance, in the community, and in university administration. Early in her career she was elected by her colleagues to serve as Physics Department Chair; followed by service as Director of the Laboratory for Surface Studies, an interdisciplinary research center that includes faculty from Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. At Associate Dean level in the College of Letters & Science (L&S) she provided oversight for all functions of five Natural Sciences departments, the Honor’s College and the Pre-Professional (pre-med) programs; in the Graduate School and the new Office of Research she supported research and graduate education for seven schools and colleges, including L&S, Engineering, Freshwater Science, Nursing, Health Science, Public Health and Information Studies. She is a graduate of the 2009 Management Development Program of the Harvard Institute for Higher Education. Dean Gajdardziska’s interests in leadership for graduate education and research are rooted in her own studies that have spanned three continents. She received a B.Sc. in engineering physics from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in her native Macedonia, where she also held a teaching and research position until 1987. Her undergraduate research experience in atomic and molecular laser physics in Grenoble, France, a city of scientists and skiers, launched her international research career. As the sole recipient of the annual Australian-European Graduate Award, she obtained an M.Sc. degree from The University of Sydney in the area of solar energy. At Arizona State University she obtained a Ph.D. in condensed matter and surface physics, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy. Upon joining the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Professor Gajdardziska became founder and director of the Laboratory for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, the only such lab in southeast Wisconsin. She was a summer fellow at Oak Ridge National Lab and an academic visitor of the Department of Materials at Oxford University. The interdisciplinary research that she conducts with her undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs has resulted in more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, 40 invited talks and 100 conference presentations, $2.3M in competitive extramural funding, and most recently one patent. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Microscopy and Microanalysis (the journal of the Microscopy Society of America), and the Science Advisory Committee of Argonne National Laboratory’s Electron Microscopy Center. Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska has received several awards and honors, including Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (2014), Woman of Influence award of The Business Journal (2014), the Research Corporation Research Opportunity Award (2004), the White House/National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1995), the UWM Foundation Research Award (1998); preceded by awards during her student years including the Herman E. DeMund Scholarship (1990; one a year for ASU), Australian-European Graduate Award (1985; one a year for Europe), and the award for Best Undergraduate Student in Physics graduating between 1976-86.

Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska’s group uses atomic resolution transmission electron microscopy, diffraction, and spectroscopy methods to understand how the combination of ionicity and limited dimensionality leads to new physical properties and useful applications. Her research program aims to elucidate the stabilization mechanisms for polar oxide surfaces and interfaces by studying their atomic and electronic structures. The focus is on polar oxide systems with applications in energy, environment, and novel forms of electronics. Her group also works with a wide range of nanostructures, with recent work on hybrid nanosensors, based on oxide nanoparticles supported on carbon nanotubes or graphene sheets, and complex oxide nanoparticles with promising multiferroic properties. In the area of biophysics she collaborates with colleagues from the life sciences to develop targeted magnetic nanotechnology therapies for stroke and cancer, and to study naturally occurring magnetic nanocrystalline biominerals created by the iron storage proteins in plants and bacteria. She has contributed to technique developments in nanodiffraction, electron holography, reflection electron microscopy, and dynamical in-situ transmission electron microscopy. Her research has been supported by extramural grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Research Corporation, and intramural Catalysis, UW Milwaukee and Madison, and Research Growth Initiative grants.

Dr. Gen Long received his BS in Physics from Shandong University, China and his PhD in Physics from University at Buffalo. He worked in GlobalFoundries (US) as senior integration engineer on 14nm FinFET technology before joined St. John’s University as assistant professor in Physics. His research area mainly focuses on the synthesis, characterization and device applications of novel metal and semiconductor nanostructures (nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods, nanodisks, nanoplatelets, etc. made by solution-phase or gas-phase growth). He is an active member of APS, MRS, and AAPT.

Dr. Long’s research interest are novel nanomaterial synthesis and characterizations, energy-related nanoscale device applications, as well as biomedical applications of magnetic nanomaterials .