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B. Layla Mehdi

Professor
University of Liverpool
(2) The Faraday Institution, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0RA, UK, (3) Albert Crewe Centre, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool, L69 3GL, UK, United Kingdom

Professor Mehdi is currently in the School of Engineering and Associate Director of the Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy at the University of Liverpool (since 2017). She received her undergraduate and Master's degree in Chemistry from University of Warsaw in Poland (2008) and her PhD in Chemistry from the Miami University, USA (2013). Following her PhD, she joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2013 and in 2016 was promoted to a permanent staff scientist. Her work at PNNL involved the development of the operando TEM stages to study dynamic process with application to Li-ion batteries as part of Joint Centre for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) funded by US Department of Energy.

She has over nine years of experience in the development and application of in-situ methods in electron microscopy for which she has received numerous awards. These include the 2019 Albert Crewe Award from the Microscopy Society of America MSA for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the physical sciences by an early career scientist, the 2015 MRS Postdoctoral Award, the 2015 Microscopy Society of America postdoctoral award, the 2014 Microscopy & Microanalysis Presidential award, and the 2013 Miami University award for outstanding Ph.D. work.
Additionally, in 2016 she received a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to preform Research at the Nagoya University, Japan in collaboration with Toyota, which she turned down to join the University of Liverpool.
Her primary research area is focused on developing advanced new operando microscopy methods to generate an in-depth understanding of reaction kinetics at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces in batteries, electrocatalysis and pharmaceuticals, which is funded by the Faraday Institution/EPSRC. She is also involved in building the first Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging facility in the UK.

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