The 2025 EU-FIB.net workshop took place September 16-19 at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) in Valencia, Spain and was organized by Dr. Rosa Cordoba.
INVITED SPEAKERS
ADAMSKI, FRÉDÉRIC | Safran Tech | Paris, France
Frédéric Adamski is an expert in Safran Tech, the research center of Safran, an international high-technology group operating in the aerospace, defence and aerospace sectors. After defending a PhD in Physcis of Archaeomaterials, he worked for 4 years as a postdoctoral position at the “Centre des Matériaux” of Ecole des Mines de Paris, mainly on the fine characterization of aeronautical alloys (Ni Superalloys, Ti alloys). Frédéric was then recruited as a lecturer in physical metallurgy at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, working mainly on the characterisation of raw microstructures from additive manufacturing using SLM. Finally, he joined Safran Tech’s characterisation laboratory in 2018 as an expert in microstructural characterisation of metals and alloys. He is a specialist in SEM/EDS/EBSD and acquired a SEM-FIB two years ago.
ALLEN, FRANCES | University of California | Berkeley, USA
Dr. Frances Allen is an Associate Research Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She gained an M.Sci. in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Kent, UK, and her PhD in Physics from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. The Allen research group at Berkeley uses electron and ion beam microscopy to characterize and shape matter down to the atomic scale.
BELIANINOV, ALEX | Sandia National Laboratories | Albuquerque, USA
Alex Belianinov, is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Alex received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University in 2012 under Patricia Thiel. He moved to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2012 as a postdoctoral research associate with Sergei Kalinin and was subsequently onboarded in 2015 at the ORNL’s Center for Nanoscale Materials Sciences as a Strategic Hire. He has received the Microscopy Today Innovation award, as well as an R&D 100 award for his work in combining machine learning with microscopy techniques. He has served as DOE BES detailee in 2020-2021 for NSRC SBIR Phase I and II projects. In 2020, he completed an MBA from University of Tennessee. Alex published over 150 papers with ~5000 citations and an h-index of 39 His professional interests include ion beam nanofabrication, ion implantation, imaging, and data analysis.
BOTHNER, DANIEL | Physikalisches Institut, Center for Quantum Science (CQ) and LISA+ (Universität Tübingen) | Tübingen, Germany
Daniel is a senior researcher and team leader of the Microwave Team Tübingen in the department for solid state physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He completed his PhD in physics at the University of Tübingen in 2014, after which he joined the group of Gary Steele as a postdoctoral researcher at the TU Delft, Netherlands, until 2020. His previous and current research focuses on the development of hybrid quantum systems with superconducting microwave circuits, such as SQUID-optomechanical systems, photon-pressure circuits and superconductor-cold-atom hybrids. For most of these systems, standard microwave circuits made of aluminum and trilayer Josephson junctions are not the best option, and so a large part of his team’s research efforts is dedicated to the development of unconventional microwave Josephson devices based on materials such as niobium and YBCO, and using neon and helium focused ion beam patterning.
CYBART, SHANE | University of California | Riverside, USA
Professor Shane Cybart obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC San Diego in 2005 studying nanofabrication and device physics of high-transition temperature Josephson devices. He continued his work in superconductive electronics as a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley from 2006-2009. From 2009-2016, he worked as a scientist at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego developing oxide electronic devices for a diverse range of applications. In June 2016 he joined the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California Riverside. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He serves as the Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Science (CalIT2) at UC Riverside and as Director of the UCR Quantum Engineering Center.
DE CASTRO, OLIVIER | Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) | Luxembourg
Olivier De Castro concluded his Master of Science in experimental solid state physics in 2012 at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. During his master studies he gained experience with XRD and synchrotron based SAXS characterisation techniques mainly for materials science related studies. In 2016 he gained his PhD in physics from the University Paris-Saclay, France, specialising in charged particle optics (CPO) with emphasis on ion source development. In his current position as Senior R&T Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), he can rely on 12 years of valuable experience in designing scientific instrumentation based on CPO. Over the past years he led as PI numerous industry funded projects with world leading instrument manufacturers. Resulting in the successful integration of in-house developed magnetic sector secondary ion mass spectrometry (magSIMS) systems onto different FIB (FIB-SEM) platforms. He is further involvement as instrumental development leader and researcher in various other projects of the Advanced Instrumentation for Nano-Analytics (AINA) group at LIST. Leading to his knowledge enrichment in topics such as scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM), cryo-FIB investigations, in-situ/operando electro-chemical experiments within FIB platforms or intense laser beam interaction and influence of ion beams. The developed instruments are used across a variety of scientific domains, ranging from fundamental materials science, more applied studies for energy and hydrogen materials research, thin film investigations, soil sciences, life sciences and even in some extend towards space applications.
FRACZKIEWICZ, ALEXANDRA | CEA-Leti | Grenoble, France
Alexandra received her PhD in material sciences from the university of Grenoble Alpes in 2017, and joined Orsay Physics as a Research and Development engineer in 2018, working on UHV platforms developments. She then joined CEA leti in 2022 as a research engineer and is now head of the sample preparation group at the platform for nanocharacterization (PFNC). She currently supports advanced semiconductor developments by providing sample preparation and observation solutions using various equipments from FIB, plasma-FIB, and various SEM setups. She joined the EUFN steering committee in 2023.
HOUËL, ARNAUD | Orsay Physics | Fuveau, France
Arnaud graduated in 1999 from the National Engineering School of Metz, having acquired knowledge in materials physics. He then decided to go to Marseille to obtain his Master’s degree in nanomaterials physics, followed by a Ph.D. between 2000 and 2002 in Marseille. The title of his thesis was: “Direct writing of nanoscale features assisted by STM and FIB.” After his Ph.D., Pierre SUDRAUD proposed that he join the ORSAY PHYSICS team to work with them on ion sources and FIB developments (LMIAS, GFIS, UHV FIB…). Between 2002 and today, he has held several positions in this French company and is currently in charge of prospective ion sources developments (GFIS, LICIS, LMIAS…).
KASTL, CHRISTOPH | Walter-Schottky-Institute (Technical University of Munich) | Munich, Germany
Christoph is a group leader at the Walter-Schottky-Institute (Technical University of Munich). Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), and in 2015 he was awarded a doctoral degree in Physics at TU Munich. He uses focused He-ion beam microscopy to structure layered van der Waals materials down to the limit of introducing single atomic defects, which can serve as single photon sources and spin defects.
PICCIRILLO, JONATHAN GABRIEL| CNB-CSIC CryoEM Facility | Madrid, Spain
Jonathan is a PhD student in Structural Biology at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, where he develops cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy (cryoCLEM) workflows in collaboration with the cryoEM Facility. His research focuses on cryoFIB-SEM volume imaging and lamella preparation for cryo-electron tomography. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Siena and another from the Pompeu Fabra University, and was awarded an EMBO Scientific Exchange Fellowship in 2023 to train at ETH Zurich. Jonathan also develops custom tools for data acquisition and analysis in cryoEM.
RAGUIN, EMELINE | Max Plank Institute for Colloids and Interfaces | Golm, Germany
Emeline is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Golm, Germany, where she leads the Development of Mineralized Skeletal Materials group. She holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from Université de Montréal, Canada, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute in Structural Biology. Her research focuses on understanding the structural and functional properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and mineralized matrix during skeletal tissue development. Using FIB-SEM and correlative light and electron microscopy under cryo conditions, she aims to elucidate the mechanisms governing tissue formation and mineralization.
ZHAKINA, ELINA | Max Plank Institute | Dresden, Germany
Elina Zhakina is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Spin3D group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPFS) in Dresden, Germany. Her research focuses on superconductivity in three-dimensional nanostructures, with a particular interest in how 3D nanoconfinement affects critical parameters and emergent phenomena. Dr. Zhakina completed her PhD in 2022 at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she specialised in condensed matter physics, and earned her Master´s degree in Physics from Moscow State University. Her current work is motivated by the potential of 3D superconducting nanostructures to serve as a platform for next-generation quantum and neuromorphic computing systems.