The German Society for Electron Microscopy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie) has selected Jian-Min (Jim) Zuo to receive the internationally renowned Ernst Ruska Prize for his outstanding scientific achievements related to electron microscopy. The prize will be awarded at the opening ceremony of the microscopy conference MC2015 in Göttingen, Germany, on September 7. Zuo receives the prize for his improvement of electron diffraction techniques and analysis. His work not only increases scientific knowledge on atomic and sub-atomic structure of materials but also paves the way for further achievements in understanding materials.
The Ernst Ruska Prize is named after the Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the electron microscope, Prof. Ernst August Friedrich Ruska. The prize is awarded by the German Society for Electron Microscopy every two years for outstanding achievements in the field of electron microscopy.
Zuo received his Ph.D. in Physics from Arizona State University in 1989. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 2000, he was a research scientist in Physics at ASU and a visiting scientist to a number of universities and institutes in Germany, Japan and Norway. His honors include the Burton Award for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis, Microscopy Society of America (2001); NSF DEM Career Award (2005); and Chair of Excellence, Nanoscience Foundation, France (2011).