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Paul J. Smeets, PhD

NUANCE TEM Research Associate
Northwestern University
(2) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Evanston, Illinois, United States

Dr. Paul Smeets is a Research Associate and a Facility Manager FIB/TEM at Northwestern University's Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental Center (NUANCE) in Evanston, IL.

He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He earned his PhD in molecular systems there in 2016 for his research on investigating early stages of calcium carbonate mineralization, which included research partially performed at the Molecular Foundry of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After obtaining his PhD degree, he pursued a postdoctoral position within the Materials Science and Engineering department at Northwestern University, where he focused on advanced characterization of biominerals at the nano- and atomic scale. Having more than 10 years of experience in materials characterization using (scanning) transmission electron microscopy, Dr. Smeets specializes in probing structure-property relationships in hybrid organic-inorganic materials using (cryo-(S))TEM and analytical (S)TEM. He received a number of awards, including the 2018 and 2019 Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) Postdoctoral Scholar Award and the 2018 KNCV Piet Bennema Award for Crystal Growth. Dr. Smeets’ daily responsibilities include JEOL ARM300F/FEI Helios FIB-SEM management, user training, technical development, individual and collaborative research, and assisting with teaching lab classes.

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