Affiliation: National University of Singapore

Utkur Mirsaidov obtained both his bachelor's degree (May 2000) and PhD (December 2005) degrees in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Afterward, during 2006-2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked on design and nanofabrication of single-molecule biosensor devices for DNA sequencing. At the beginning of 2010, he moved to Singapore to start developing in situ liquid cell TEM platform for imaging soft and biological materials. In August of 2013, he started as an assistant professor of Physics and Biology at the National University of Singapore. He is now an associate professor (since June 2019) in the same departments.

In Singapore, Utkur’s lab works on addressing several key issues related to nanomaterials synthesis, nanofabrication, and catalysis. The lab studies how nanomaterials form, transform, and assemble. To address these questions, his group has been developing instrumentation and computational approach for in situ liquid and gas phase TEM to visualize and characterize the nanoscale processes directly in solution in real-time.