International Journal of Microscopy
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Biography

Ludek Frank grew up in Brno in the Czech Republic and received his master’s degree in 1969 at the university that reverted to its original name of Masaryk University in the 1990s. He received his Ph.D. in applied physics from Brno University of Technology in 1985, and then obtained his DSc. in technical sciences from the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1998. He has spent his entire professional career in the Department of Electron Microscopy at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He served as Director of the Institute between 2001 and 2012, and since that time has been senior scientist at the institute. Frank was President of the Czechoslovak Society from 1995 to 2002, was president of the 12th European Microscopy Congress in Brno in 2000, and received the Award of the Czechoslovak Microscopy Society for lifelong contribution to microscopy in 2005. Frank was member of the Executive Board of the European Microscopy Society from 2001 to 2004, and has also been a member of the advisory boards of dozens of regional, continental and global microscopy congresses.

Research Interest

Methodology of the scanning electron microscopy, Very low energy SEM of surfaces, Very low energy STEM, SEM and STEM of 2D crystals, Electron spectroscopy.

Publications

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