Leading Light - David Eastwood

Our sixth Leading Light is Dr David Eastwood, research fellow at Diamond, and one of the facility’s first users in 2007 when he was a postgraduate student at the University of Durham.
Back then, David used Diamond’s X-rays to examine sensors that read the magnetic information stored in a computer’s memory. Now, he is based at Diamond as part of the University of Manchester at Harwell’s collaboration with I13-2. His research interests include reactive materials like batteries and catalysts, as well as airborne materials such as aerosols and particulate matter.
By using X-ray imagine and tomography techniques at Diamond and other synchrotrons, he designs electrochemical experiments. He also looks at X-ray diffraction and surface scattering techniques, nanofabrication, thin film deposition and electron beam lithography.