DrKatharina Marquardt

SUMMARY
I am an Associate Professor of Materials Microscopy and Microstructure Evolution and Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, and hold a Visiting Reader Position at Imperial College London.
Before joining Oxford, I was Senior Lecturer in Ceramics at the Department of Materials. Before moving to Imperial, I worked at the University of Bayreuth at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut. I obtained my doctorate from the Technical University Berlin in a collaborative effort with the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam. I conducted research at the National Centre for Electron Microscopy, Berkeley, USA, at the SuperSTEM in Daresbury, UK and at the Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh in the department of Materials Science and Engineering.

RESEARCH
My group’s work is embedded in the Oxford Micromechanics & Microstructure Research Group (OMG) and stretches from understanding and characterising interface population changes during material life cycles to (geo) materials' interaction with the environment. Materials of key interest are those that find application for our transition to net zero and materials for applications under extreme conditions, from advanced ceramics to rocks and minerals.

In my group, we are challenging the fundamental scientific understanding of the role of interfaces in designing new materials by tailoring their grain boundary populations via manufacturing and accelerating our transition to a net-zero carbon society. Examples include (i) the role of interfaces to tailor interface properties, (ii) the role of grain boundaries in hard materials and materials for cladding in nuclear fusion reactors (iii) we design new microstructures to enhance Na-Ion battery durability and performance, and (iv) develop new protocols for comprehensive characterization of the distribution of interfaces.

You can find a full list of my publications on my Google Scholar page.

Positions!
If you are interested in working in my group, you are welcome to email me to inquire about current MSc and MEng projects or PhD and PDRA positions.

Honours and Awards

I recently received the EMU Research Excellence Medal 2018 for my “challenging and forefront (research) projects” and for my “contributions that have opened up new horizons”, if you are interested to read more click here.

In relation to the Medal award ceremony at the Goldschmidt meeting in August 2019 in Barcelona I was interviewed by Eleanor Berryman for the Blog of the European Association of Geochemistry. The interview can be found here.

My research is supported with funding from EPSRC. Futhermore, past and present projects are funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG.

2019 - Habilitation in „Experimental Geology“, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, BGI, Bayreuth
2018 - EMU Research Excellence Medal
2015 - Invitee to the 12th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium, Kyoto, Japan
2014 - Initiation grant for interdisciplinary research (DFG)
2012 - Helmholtz Postdoc Program Grant
2012 - Helmholtz grant “taking the lead”
2010 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie (DGE) Scholarship
2010 - European Microscopy Society (EMS) Scholarship, EMC 2010
2009 - Financial grant of the Christiane-Nüsslein-Vollhard-Foundation
2008 - Conference travel award, European Microscopy Society (EMS) Scholarship, EMC 2008
2006 - Conference travel award American Geophysical Union Student (AGU)

Invited Presentations (2016 - 2019)
2019 Earth Science Seminar, Imperial College London, UK
2019 Earth Science Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK
2019 Keynote: Interfacial energy variations related to segregation, combining statistical analyses and transmission electron microscopy, Microscopy Conference 2019, Berlin, Germany
2019 Medal lecture: Grain boundaries in Olivine, Goldschmidt Conference, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Research meeting on Advanced Ceramics, Imperial College London, UK
2019 EBSD 2019, London, UK
2018 CASC industry day, Imperial College London, UK
2018 Materials Science Seminar, Oxford, UK
2018 Earth Science Seminar, University College London, UK
2018 Seminar, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany
2018 Seminar, TU Berlin, Berlin
2018 Seminar, Imperial College London, London, UK
2018 “Interfacial networks characteristics obtained from EBSD analyses”, EBSD 2018, Ann Arbor, USA
2017 Keynote: Inclusions in minerals: the importance of host mineral composition, pressure and temperature for potential inclusion alteration, AGU, New Orleans, USA
2017 Keynote: nm-scale composition determination, quantitative EBSD measurements: implications of interfaces for bulk rock properties, Goldschmidt, Paris
2017 Seminar, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
2016 AGU Fall meeting, USA
2016 IRTG "Deep Earth Volatile Cycles" meeting, Sendai, Japan
2016 DKG 24th annual meeting, Stuttgart, Germany
2016 Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA