Sarah Haigh

Sarah Haigh is a Professor of Materials Characterisation at the University of Manchester, UK whose group develops and applies advanced electron microscopy to the characterisation of 2D materials and nanoparticle systems. She completed undergraduate and doctorate degrees in Material Science at the University of Oxford (2004 and 2008) then worked as Consultant Application Specialist to JEOL UK. She is Director of the University of Manchester’s Electron Microscopy Centre with 26 microscopes and >400 users.  She is also Director of the bp International Centre for Advanced Materials an academic-industrial collaboration set up with $100M investment from bp and focused on research towards net zero. She has published more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers, including 45 as corresponding author, and 5 book chapters (h-index =72, >24000 citations).