Career
Doctorate (born 6 December 1950) is an English physicist, and current scientific director of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), since October 2006 and a chief of the laboratory of bioengineering and physical science. Doctor Leapman"s research interests are in the development and application of quantitative and the application of novel nanoscale imaging methods to solve problems in structural and cellular biology. Doctor Leapman has been particularly active in developing the techniques of electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics) to provide an unprecedented high spatial resolution for nanoanalysis of biological structures.
Doctor Leapman has devised new methods for quantifying both elemental and chemical information obtained from inelastic electron scattering, a research area in which he has over one hundred publications.
Recently, Doctor Leapman has extended the techniques of energy filtered transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) and Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics and combined them with a known technique of tomography to obtain three-dimensional structural and compositional information of cellular components. Doctor Leapman obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of Cambridge, England.
He serves on the editorial boards of the journal of microscopy and nanotechnology and on peer review panels.
