Green Family Lecture Series: “Building the Microscopes of Tomorrow” by Margaret Murnane

October 10, 2022

Speaker Bio

Margaret is a Fellow of JILA and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado. She runs a joint, multi-disciplinary, research group with her husband, Prof. Henry Kapteyn. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Margaret, with her group and collaborators, uses coherent beams of laser, EUV and soft x-ray light to capture and manipulate the structure and interactions in materials at the nanoscale. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the AAAS, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Margaret is the Director of the National Science Foundation STROBE Center, where scientists from 6 universities are building the microscopes of tomorrow.