Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
(1) Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
David William McComb is an Ohio Research Scholar and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. A chemistry graduate from the University of Glasgow, David did his PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Archie Howie. David is an expert in the development and application of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) as a sub‐nanometre scale probe of chemistry, structure and bonding. He is a fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, Royal Microscopical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Materials, and former co‐director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology as well as Director of Research and Deputy Head of the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. In October 2011 he joined The Ohio State University as the founding director of the Center for Electron Microscopy and AnalysiS (CEMAS). This state-of-the-art facility houses over $39M worth of electron and ion microscopes performing at or beyond manufacturer specifications. CEMAS was conceived to drive the application of state of the art electron microscopy techniques to strategic research challenges in the physical, engineering, life and medical sciences.