Faculty
Robert Sinclair, Ph.D.
Core Leader: Core 1
Professor and Chair
Materials Science and Engineering
416 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2205
Phone: (650) 723-1102
Fax: (650) 725-4034
Email: bobsinc@stanford.edu
Core Leader: Core 1, Professor and Chair, Materials Science and Engineering (Stanford)
Professor Sinclair is Director of the Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory (SNL) and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He has over 30 years experience in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy research, having published six book chapters, five edited works, and over 160 refereed scientific articles. His expertise particularly resides in extremely fine-scale structure analysis, at the sub-nano level, and in situ experimentation. He has served on numerous occasions on the program committee for the Microscopy Society of America and for the quadrennial International Congress on Microscopy. Currently, he is Chair of the National Research Councils Committee on Smaller Facilities, sponsored by the Board of Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences. He provides characterization expertise for the Initiative on Nano-Materials and Processes directed by Professor Yoshio Nishi.
