Dr. Sebastian Calderon Velasco

Biography

Sebastian Calderon Velasco received a B.S. in Physics Engineering in 2006 and an M.S. in Materials Engineering in 2009 from the National University of Colombia. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of Minho, Portugal, in 2016, with an additional European Mention from work completed at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He has completed postdoctoral appointments at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) as a Marie-Curie Co-fund Research Fellow, specializing in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with an emphasis on differential phase contrast STEM. At Carnegie Mellon University, he has worked on advanced STEM characterization of functional materials. His current research focuses on advancing TEM techniques to investigate the atomic-scale structure and dynamic processes in novel ferroelectric materials and complex oxides. His efforts aim to accelerate materials discovery to enable next-generation electronic devices.

Research Interests