Lan Nguyen
PhD (Haigh Group): imaging and spectroscopy of 2D crystals
There were a few inspirational teachers at school that nurtured my curiosity, so much so that a group of my friends and I drew out a schematics for a miniature MAGLEV train for our science fair project in year 12. Our head of science took us to one side and told us the school couldn’t allow us to build it. The currents we were generating with our setup meant a high risk of instant death. I thought to myself awesome. We still built one, won the prize for scientific rigour and are (currently) all still alive to tell the tale.
Then, during my MEng project, my supervisor took me to her office and showed me some images and videos of graphene atoms taken from the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope in Daresbury. I remember thinking nice dots.