Paul Bagot is currently a Departmental Lecturer in Atom Probe at the
University of Oxford, working in the Materials Department on a range of
topics including heterogeneous catalysis, advanced alloys and nuclear
materials. He is also currently funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering
on an industrial secondment to Rolls-Royce.  Prior to Oxford he worked as
a postdoc at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh on gas-liquid interfacial
scattering. A key theme in his research has been the design and
development of new and existing techniques to considering interfacial and
near-surface processes in atomic-scale detail. His recent work has
included developed Atom Probe Tomography for studying core-shell
nanoparticles for fuel-cell catalysts (Nature Nanotechnology 6 302-307
2011) and designing a custom environmental cell for atom probe in
conjunction with Iowa State University. This is designed to closely mimic realistic operating environments for catalysts, nickel-superalloys and also for studying hydrogen embrittlement in steels.