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Gianluigi Botton | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BEng, Physics, 1987, PhD, Materials Eng, 1992, Polytechnique Montréal |
| Thesis | Caractérisation et mécanismes de croissance de la phase MgAl2O4 dans les composites Al-Mg renforcés avec Al2O3 (1994) |
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| Institutions | Canadian Light Source McMaster University |
| Website | bottonsgroup |
Gianluigi A. Botton FRSC (born 1963) is a French Canadian scientist and engineer. As a Canada Research Chair at McMaster University,he leads the Botton's Group to investigate new materials on the atomic-scale.
Botton was born in 1963. [1] He completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree in physics and PhD in materials engineering from Polytechnique Montréal. [2] Following his PhD,Botton was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge working under Colin Humphreys from 1993 to 1998. He then joined the Materials Technology Laboratory of Natural Resources Canada in 1998 as a research scientist. [3] Through his post-graduate positions,Botton also earned a summer job studying electron microscopy at Simon Fraser University. [4]
Botton joined the faculty of McMaster University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2001. [3] As a professor at McMaster,he also became the founder and inaugural director of the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy since 2008. [4] Throughout his tenure at McMaster,he focused his research laboratory towards the understanding of the structure of different materials at the atomic level. [5] As a result of his efforts,Botton was elected a fellow of the Microscopy Society of America [6] and named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. [7] By 2017,Botton was named the recipient of CMSC Metal Physics Award [8] and McMaster's the Faculty of Engineering Research Achievement Award. [9]
In 2018,Botton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his significant contributions within his field. [5] The following year,Botton was offered,and accepted,a directorship position with the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan "given his extensive background in materials science and advanced microscopy." [10] In 2023,Button was appointed CEO of the Diamond Light Source. [11]
Gianluigi Botton publications indexed by Google Scholar
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