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Center for Nanoscale Materials

CNM User Executive Committee

The Center for Nanoscale Materials’ (CNM) User Executive Committee (UEC) serves as an advocacy group for the CNM and its user community, provides advice to the CNM Director on matters affecting the user community, and ensures good communication between the CNM user community and CNM leadership. The CNM-UEC is also responsible for organizing the scientific content of the annual joint Advanced Photon Source (APS)/CNM Users Meeting.

Sophie Canton (Chair)
XFEL Germany
sophie.​e.​canton@​gmail.​com
2021-2024

Nihar Pradhan (Vice-Chair)
Jackson State University
nihar.​r.​pradhan@​jsums.​edu
2022-2025

Erin Iski
The University of Tulsa
erin-​iski@​utulsa.​edu
2022-2025

Zhenfei Liu
Wayne State University
zfliu@​wayne.​edu
2022-2025

Karen Mulfort
Argonne National Laboratory
mulfort@​anl.​gov
2021-2024

Akshay Murthy
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
amurthy@​fnal.​gov
2023-2026

Preston Snee
University of Illinois at Chicago
sneep@​uic.​edu
2023-2026

Kamal Soni
Corning, Incorporated
sonikk@​corning.​com
2021-2024

Tao Xu
Northern Illinois University
txu@​niu.​edu 
2023-2026

Badri Narayanan (ex officio)
Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville
badri.​narayanan@​louisville.​edu
2020-2023

Past Chairs

  • Badri Narayanan, University of Louisville, 2020-2023
  • A. Jean-Luc Ayitou, University of Illinois Chicago, 2019-2022
  • Jacqueline Cole, University of Cambridge, 2018-2021
  • Joshua Wood, Dynatrace, Inc., 2017-2020
  • James Rondinelli, Northwestern University, 2016-2019
  • Goran Karapetrov, Drexel University, 2015-2018
  • Yasuo Ito, Northern Illinois University, 2014–2017
  • Steve Smith, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology 2013–2016
  • Seungbum Hong, Argonne National Laboratory, 2012–2015
  • Steven May, Drexel University, 2011–2014
  • John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory, 2009–2013
  • Greg Wurtz, King’s College London, 2008–2012
  • Dillon Fong, Argonne National Laboratory, 2007–2011
  • Paul Evans, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2006–2009

Past Members

  • Matthew Panthani, Iowa State University, 2020-2023
  • Tobias Kipp, University of Hamburg, 2020-2023
  • Jie Joyce” Wang, Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, 2019-2022
  • Chad Husko, Iris Light Technologies, 2019-2022
  • Diana Berman, University of North Texas, 2018-2021
  • Maria Iavarone, Temple University, 2018-2021
  • Renaud Bachelot, University of Technology of Troyes, France, 2017-2020
  • Xuemei Cheng, Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College, 2017-2020
  • Zhili Xiao, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University & Argonne National Laboratory, 2016-2019
  • Olga Makarova, Creatv MicroTech, Inc., 2016-2019
  • Stephan Hruszkewycz, Argonne National Laboratory, 2015-2018
  • CD Phatak, Argonne National Laboratory, 2015-2018
  • Mitra Taheri, Drexel University, 2014–2017
  • Lin Wang, Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research, 2014–2017
  • Matthew Grayson, Northwestern University, 2013–2016
  • Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory, 2013–2016
  • Carmen Lilley, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012–2015
  • Conal Murray, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 2011–2014
  • Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University, 2009–2013
  • Yi Ji, University of Delaware, 2008–2012
  • Teri Odom, Northwestern University, 2007–2011
  • Mike Moldovan, ADT, Inc., 2006–2009
  • Gayle Woloschak, Northwestern University, 2006–2009
  • Vitali Metlushko, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006–2008