Welcome

Hi I'm Lewys Jones, a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Oxford Materials Department under the supervision of Prof. Peter Nellist.

My current research is based on three-dimensional techniques and applications of the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) or scanning confocal electron microscope (SCEM). As part of this a series of STEM image interpretation and post-processing codes have been written to improve resolution or signal-noise performance. These include compensation of scan distortion resulting from environmental instabilities and software aberration correction from STEM focal series,

Before this position I studied for a Masters in Engineering of Materials Science at St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford, graduating with a 1st class honours in 2009. Previous projects I've worked on include testing and validating finite-element model performance for the high strain rate performance of foamed-ceramic components at the University of California - Santa Barbara, and development of novel heat treatments from first principle investigation of nucleation and phase change behaviours in 7xxx series aluminium alloys at the Tokyo Institute of Technology,