Dr B Layla Mehdi

Dr Layla Mehdi is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK, and a visiting Professor at Northwestern University, USA.  She received her Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry from Warsaw University in Poland and her PhD in Chemistry from Miami University, USA.  After completing her PhD in 2013, she joined the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA, first as a postdoctoral research associate and in 2016 she became a Staff scientist at PNNL, USA.  Dr Mehdi has received numerous international research awards, such as the prestigious Materials Research Society Postdoctoral Award, the Microscopy Society of America Postdoctoral Award, and the Microscopy & Microanalysis Presidential Award, for her pioneering work on the development and application of an in-situ liquid electrochemical TEM for battery research. In 2016 she also received a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship to continue the development of these methods.  She has over 30 publications in the use of electrochemical and in-situ methods (h-index 14) and has given over 25 invited presentations worldwide on the applications of in-situ liquid cell TEM.  She is interested in developing an advanced electrochemical methods for operando transmission electron microscopy to study reaction mechanisms and kinetics on the nanoscale at high spatial and temporal resolution.