About

Hi, I'm Jonathan Peters, Research Fellow in the School of Physics,  Trinity College Dublin. I work on developing transmission electron microscopy for materials science and crystallography, often using novel computer analysis and simulation to extract the maximum information from microscopy datasets.

Biography

I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Ana M. Sanchez. My thesis focussed on using TEM to explore the structure and functional properties of ferroelectrics from quantitative atomic resolution measurements. I achieved this using my programming skills to create high performance and accessible software, many of which are open source.

My PhD results directly lead to a funded EPSRC project where I was employed as a research fellow working with Prof. Marin Alexe to study ferrotoroidic structures (e.g. polar vortices and skyrmions) in ferroelectric thin films and superlattices.

My desire to explore hardware development saw me move to Trinity College Dublin in Ireland to work with Prof. Lewys Jones. Here I work on retrieving the maximum possible information for the minimum electron dose with STEM imaging. To do this I design bespoke electronics and utilise FPGAs, in addition to my software programming skills.