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Dr Mervyn D Shannon

BSc, PhD

Electron Microscopy

Mervyn obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Bristol in 1979 having joined ICI's Corporate Laboratory in 1974. His initial work was on the development of electron diffraction methods and their application to the structure of catalyst particles. This was followed by a period of XPS studies of catalyst surfaces before returning to electron microscopy. Mervyn introduced a number of advanced microscopy techniques to the company and specialised in combining microscopy, diffraction and modelling methods to elucidate structure/property relationships in catalysis. He was appointed an ICI Business Scientist in 1995.

In recent years Mervyn's interests have developed to include structure/performance relationships in starch and multiphase polymers as well as catalysis and has led MSG's investment in cryo-microscopy methods for food science. He served on the EPSRC committee for the Scanning Probe Microscopy Initiative for 5 years. He has published widely in the scientific literature and has given a number of invited lectures at international conferences. He has recently been appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool.