Join us –
75 Years of Brilliance: Honoring Our Past, Shaping DXC’s Future
Chairs:
Andy Drews, Ford Motor Company, USA
Scott Misture, Alfred University, USA
Brian Toby, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Tom Watkins, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Dr. Tim Fawcett ICDD, USA
“75 Years of Learning, Growth and Continuous Development in Materials Analysis with the
Denver X-ray Conference”
Tim received his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry at Rutgers University. He worked at the Dow Chemical Company from 1979-2001 and then was Executive Director of the ICDD until his retirement in 2017. In retirement, Tim continues to teach at both the ICDD clinics and Denver X-ray Conference workshops.
At Rutgers he combined X-ray crystallography with various spectroscopy techniques to study amino acids, chromophores of metalloproteins, and cupruretic agents for Wilson’s disease. He was hired into the X-ray diffraction laboratory of the Analytical Sciences Department of the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, MI. During the next 10 years, he worked in the X-ray diffraction laboratory performing a wide range of analyses of corrosion products, inorganic materials, advanced ceramics, catalysts, pharmaceuticals and polymers. He eventually managed the inorganic analysis laboratories in Analytical Sciences, that included XRD, XRF, NAA, AA, ICP, AES, CHN, IC and electrochemical analyses. He worked with a team of scientists that developed and patented the simultaneous DSC/XRD/MS instrument, which won an IR-100 award in 1987. From 1986 to 1988 he served on the Board of Directors for the ICDD.
During the 1990’s, Tim managed several new product development groups in advanced materials, electronics, coatings, dispersions, ceramics and automotive components for different business organizations within the Dow Chemical Company. Tim was awarded the V.A. Stenger, MASTL, Inventor of the Year, Cramer, and Spangenburg Awards for analytical sciences, pharmaceuticals, coatings and ceramic product development. He became an ICDD fellow in 2000 and joined the ICDD as Executive Director in 2001. During his career, Tim has authored over 80 publications, been a frequent guest lecturer, and presented several papers and workshops at global X-ray conferences. In 2009 he received the Jenkins Award for Lifetime Achievement in the advancement and use of X-rays for materials analysis. As Executive Director, he directed and participated in the dramatic growth of the Powder Diffraction File to >950,000 entries, which is now used by scientists in over 120 countries. Tim was past chairman and is currently a member of the Organizing Committee for the Denver X-ray Conference.
Prof. Dr. Ursula E. A. Fittschen Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
“X-ray Based Microanalysis and Materials Characterization”
Since July 2017, Ursula E. A. Fittschen has been Full Professor of Materials Analysis and Functional Solids at TU Clausthal, previously Assistant Professor at Washington State University (WSU, 2014-2017). Studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg (Diploma 1996), PhD (2001) and Habilitation (2013) also followed at the University of Hamburg.
Editorial Board Member at Spectrochimica Acta Part B (Elsevier) and at X-Ray Spectrometry (Wiley), co-author on the annual atomic spectrometry updates on XRF in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (RSC), member of the Denver X-ray Conference Organizing Committee. Member of the Advisory Board of the international TXRF conference and related method and of the Advisory Committee of the ICXOM and main organizer of the joint ICXOM-DXC conference 2019.
Her research focuses mainly on Method and Instrument Development in Elemental Determination and Speciation in Condensed Phases using X-ray Fluorescence and X-ray Spectroscopy. Understanding of interactions of X-ray photons with matter as well as molecular interactions is one of her group’s major goals. Publications are related to fundamental research in X-ray spectrometry or related to applications which are: Recycling of critical materials, Energy storage, ion transport in polymer electrolyte membranes and aerosol research.
Dr. Chris Jacobsen Northwestern University, USA
“X-rays Coming into Focus: Past and Future Journeys Towards Nanoimaging”
Chris Jacobsen is a Research Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Northwestern University, and a member of the Applied Physics Program and the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute. He has been a Professor at Stony Brook University (1991-2010), and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory (2010-2023). He was a Presidential Faculty Fellow (White House/National Science Foundation, 1992-1997), and he is a Fellow of Optica (1999), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; 2002), and the American Physical Society (2011). He has over 270 publications with more than 13,000 citations, and he is the author of the book X-ray Microscopy (Cambridge University Press, 2020).