This seminar will can be attended in person at Lecture Theatre S11,16 Rainforest Walk, Monash Clayton Campus, or online (join the zoom meeting using the link below).
The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) is one of the ten largest and most important Universities enrolled both in education and high level research in Brazil, with several campuses and more than 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
In this environment the Centro de Microscopia was conceived, and inaugurated in 2006, as an interdisciplinary and multi-user facility for academic and non-academic researchers from natural sciences to biological sciences, engineering and humanities. As Minas Gerais means general mines, there is a strong mineralogical and metallurgical bias and demand of many industries and companies. But there is also a quite large demand on the characterization of nanosized objects and other cross-disciplinary areas such as cultural heritage and forensic sciences. Some of those cases will be presented, as well as how at Centro de Microscopia we try to manage such diverse demands and areas.
Karla Balzuweit is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department at UFMG, lecturing several subjects for graduate and undergraduates. Develops joint projects with colleagues from physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, cultural heritage, geology and forensic sciences. Participated in the team which created the CM-UFMG and was/is responsible for training the material science technical staff in the operation of scanning and transmission electron microscope, as well as techniques as electron diffraction, several routes of sample preparation for electron microscopy and on the operation of the equipment. Vice-director of the Center for Electron Microscopy of UFMG (2006 – 2010). President of the Brazilian Society of Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis (SBMM) in 2008/2009, Materials Science Vicepresident in 2014/2015, and currently member of its Advisory Board. Treasurer of ANTECIPA (National Brazilian Association for Research in Technology and Heritage Science ) 2018-2022. Member of Rede Mineira de Ciências Forenses since 2015. Member of IUCr CEC (2014–2022)
