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Peter Rez

Professor
Arizona State University
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Peter Rez was an undergraduate in Cambridge and received his doctorate in Oxford. His expertise is in the physics of electron and X-ray scattering, mainly applied to electron microscopy and spectroscopy but also applied to radiation detectors and medical physics. He is responsible for scattering cross sections used in quantitative EELS analsys and was involved in the devlopment of theoretical models to understand EELS inner shell fine structure. He has also worked on modeling of battery and other materials. Early thesis work on phonon scattering in electron microscopy has been revived both for quantitative calculations of ADF contrast and to provide a framework for analysing the results for ultra high resolution EELS on the nanometer scale. Since his 3rd kidney stone he developed an interest in biomineralization, applying advanced microscopy and solid state modeling to urolithiasis, and making the transition from victim to invited speaker in a urology conference in 2 years! This lead to work on normal biomineralization, the formation of calcite shells. This has been the subject of a long-standing collaboration with the world leaders in this field at the Weizmann Institute. He has also commented on issues where physics affects society at large, both in the deployment of X-ray based body scanners at airports (since abandoned) and more recently on energy policy that is the subject of his book “The Simple Physics of Energy Use”.

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