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Colin Ophus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a Center Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. His research primarily focuses on experimental methods, reconstruction algorithms, software codes for simulation and analysis, as well as instrument design in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning TEM (STEM). He has previously served as a Staff Scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM), part of the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Ophus is a proponent of open science and has developed the open-source scientific software Prismatic for STEM simulation and the py4DSTEM analysis toolkit. He has conducted workshops worldwide on topics such as scientific visualization and large scale data analysis. Additionally, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of a new journal dedicated to interactive science communication called Elemental Microscopy.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Center Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab • Berkeley, CA
Formerly worked at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, part of the Molecular Foundry.
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