Diamond congratulates ePSIC science director Professor Angus Kirkland on RMS Honorary Fellowship
Dec 17, 2025
Diamond Light Source is delighted to congratulate Professor Angus Kirkland who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS), the society’s highest accolade, recognising his outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of electron microscopy.
Professor Kirkland is Science Director at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and leads the electron Physical Sciences Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at Diamond Light Source. From this position, he has played a pivotal role in advancing cutting-edge electron imaging capabilities and fostering interdisciplinary research that underpins innovation across the physical and life sciences.
Professor Kirkland’s research spans the development and application of aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) for the structural characterisation of nanomaterials, the design of advanced direct electron detectors and electron optics, and the development of computational image processing and theoretical approaches for phase retrieval and quantitative electron microscopy.
After completing his MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he used high-resolution electron microscopy to study colloidal metals, Professor Kirkland held a postdoctoral fellowship before being elected to a Ramsay Memorial Trust Research Fellowship.
He subsequently became a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge. In 2005, he was appointed Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford, and in 2011 became JEOL Professor of Electron Microscopy. He is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
Professor Kirkland is the author of more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and holds 14 patents. His work has been recognised internationally through numerous prestigious awards, including the Microscopy Society of America Award for Best Paper (2005), the Harald Rose Distinguished Lecture and Prize for contributions to image processing and exit wavefunction reconstruction (2015), the Quadrennial Prize of the European Microscopy Society (2016), and the RMS Agar Medal (2017). In 2012, he was appointed Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa.
The RMS Honorary Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by the society and recognises pre-eminence in microscopy and related branches of science. Diamond is pleased to see Professor Kirkland’s exceptional leadership, scientific vision and lasting impact on electron microscopy acknowledged through this distinguished honour.
Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
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