Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series.
Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Shelly Conroy (Imperial College London, UK)!
Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.
We launched our Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal and regularly select a recently published Communication article to feature in an interview-style Editorial article with the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members.
We are excited to share our latest Emerging Investigator, Dr Shelly Conroy, (Imperial College London, UK)!
Read our interview with Shelly here
Dr Shelly Conroy is an associate professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Her research centres on understanding how interfaces in materials evolve under real operating conditions, particularly in systems relevant to energy and quantum technologies. Her work spans both the growth of thin films and the atomic-scale characterisation of the dynamic processes that govern their behaviour.
Her group develops and applies advanced correlative characterisation approaches, combining in situ electron microscopy, electrochemical measurements, hard X-ray beamline experiments and cryogenic atom probe tomography. By bringing together techniques across multiple length scales, her research links dynamic behaviour directly to atomic-scale chemistry and structure, enabling complex interfaces to be studied in ways that were not previously possible.
Conroy is supported by a Royal Society Tata University Research Fellowship and an ERC Consolidator Grant (DISCO). She was previously a Research Ireland Industry Fellow at Analog Devices and a Staff Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is also currently a Mercator Fellow at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and a Principal Researcher in Advanced Electron Microscopy at Tyndall National Institute.
Congratulations to Shelly for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.
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A workflow for correlative in situ nanochip liquid cell transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography enabled by cryogenic plasma focused ion beamNeil Mulcahy, James O. Douglas, Syeda Ramin Jannat, Lukas Worch, Geri Topore, Baptiste Gault, Mary P. Ryan and Michele Shelly Conroy Nanoscale Horiz., 2025, 10, 3486-3498 |
We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!
Do you publish innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology research? Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons now. If you are eligible for the Emerging Investigators series, you could be considered to feature in one of our future interviews! Find out more about the eligibility criteria and the process in this editorial introducing the series.
