Hi there, I’m Calley Eads, the new research engineer at the Microscopy for Biosciences platform (M-Bio). I’m responsible for six instruments across multiple locations in Ecology, Biology, and MAX IV. My role involves not only maintaining and developing instrumentation, but also supporting your research! We have instruments that combine both microscopy and spectroscopy for chemical identification overlaid on spatial coordinates, probing vibrational (infrared, Raman) or electronic (X-ray) interactions.
I come from the synchrotron world, having spent three years as a beamline postdoc at MAX IV and performing numerous studies at synchrotrons back home in the States. My scientific work is heavily driven by a variety of spectroscopic tools that allow me, for example, to probe chemical reactions in real time or study electron dynamics in individual materials and across junctions that resemble the architecture of many device structures. However, I don’t have a formal biological background. My hope is to work together with people here – where you can share your interesting scientific challenges, and I can bring my expertise in material analysis. By combining what we each do best, we can learn from each other and keep building on the nice research program already in place.
During warmer months, I love hitting the mountain bike trails and exploring the forests and “hills” of Skåne. As the cold approaches, I tend to retreat to the warmth with a good book in hand or a pen for drawing.
I look forward to learning more about the diverse biology and ecology research areas that are important to everyone here and helping to advance your research through the use of microscopy and spectroscopy tools!
