About SEMT

The SEMT was founded in 1970 as a forum for the exchange of ideas on techniques and applications in microscopy. It has expanded to become one of the foremost user groups in the country, addressing all aspects of microscopy from instrument design and specimen preparation to digital image acquisition.

We hold an annual meeting with invited speakers and trade stands, facilitating contact, consultation and discussion between all our members, who include instrument manufacturers and microscope users.

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Membership

Membership is unrestricted and although mainly London based we have many members from further afield. Membership has benefits for anyone interested in microscopy:

• Newcomers to microscopy
  

            SEMT facilitates contact with supportive and encouraging members, as well as providing practical assistance.

• Experienced microscopists
  SEMT promotes co-operation and exchange of ideas as well as the opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in techniques and equipment.

• Commercial colleagues
  ​SEMT provides an excellent opportunity to advertise to a keenly interested audience and to obtain customer reaction directly.

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Officers

Chair
Alex Ball

Head of Imaging and Analysis at the Natural History Museum

Secretary
Ken Mingard

Senior Research Scientist
National Physical Laboratory

Expertise
SEM and EBSD of materials looking at microstructure-property relationships

Treasurer
David Roberston

SSO
Institue for Cancer Research

Expertise
TEM/SEM/confocal imaging of oral tissues and biomaterials

Committee members

Ann Dewar
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London

Emily Woodcock​

Jennifer Pearson-Farr 
Francis Crick Institute

Expertise
TEM and SEM of the lung
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Jenny is a Senior Laboratory Research Scientist at the Electron Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute. After completing her PhD and postdoctoral position at the University of Southampton, she moved to the Francis Crick to broaden her knowledge in advanced X-ray CT imaging and volume electron microscopy. ​

Louise Hughes​

Product Manager for Life Science, Oxford Instruments

Matthew Hannah​

Neil Wilkinson

Paola Ciselli

Patricia Goggin
Biomedical Imaging Unit​

Patricia is an NHS Clinical Scientist and Head of the Biomedical Imaging Unit, a joint facility shared between University Hospital Southampton and the University of Southampton. The BIU provides light, electron and X-ray CT imaging facilities for research and diagnosis. Her interests include Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, volume EM and  bone cell biology.

Paul Gunning

Paul spent 20 years working in colloid science at the BBSRC Institute of Food Research (a.k.a. ‘The Quadram Institute’ from 2018) in Norwich, specialising in electron, light and scanning probe microscopy.
Paul was Head of Surface Analysis (Imaging and Spectroscopy) at Smith+Nephew (global medical devices company) for 19 years, based at Smith+Nephew’s Wound Dressing factory in Hull supporting R&D, Patents and Manufacturing colleagues. The diversity of materials and biological specimen types investigated by Paul’s S+N lab necessitated the use of MSI and several other surface specific analytical techniques, contracted across several external collaborators.
Paul joined the University of York in late 2023 and currently uses a wide range of microscopies and spectroscopies including SEM, TEM, SPM, LM, µ-XCT, EDX, µ-XRF, FTIR and Raman for microstructural characterisation and analyses, working across both the Bioscience Technology Facility and the York JEOL Nanocentre to provide internal and external/industrial imaging and spectroscopy services.
 

Pedro Machado 

​Steve Furzeland

 Russell Bailey ​​

Sarah Hall 

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