Nestor J. Zaluzec

Nestor J. Zaluzec[1] is an American scientist and inventor who works at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.

His work over the last 50 years has included studies in the areas of structural phase transformation in metals, radiation damage in alloys, ceramic oxides for geologic immobilization of nuclear waste materials, elemental segregation in a wide range of materials ranging from metals and catalysts to semiconductors and superconductors, magnetic dichroism, studies of optical photovoltaics and plasmonics in coupled and hybrid nanostructures, and more recently photo-catalysts, bio-materials and the interaction of particles in nanofluidic systems.

He continues to investigate how aberration-corrected instruments can be re-engineered to improve the sensitivity of spectroscopy in analytical, multi-modal, multi-dimensional, in-situ studies of hard and soft materials.

[9][10] Zaluzec has made wide-ranging contributions to the field of electron microscopy and microanalysis beginning with his seminal work on quantitative x-ray and electron spectroscopy, which has been disseminated throughout the scientific and academic communities through hundreds of lectures, short courses and/or seminars at scientific conferences and meetings around the globe.

Since 1993, he has also administered and operated the Microscopy Listserver[16] a communication form that links over three thousand microscopists and microanalysts worldwide.