Sarah Haigh
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Short description|British microscopist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sarah Haigh
| image = Sarah Haigh.jpg
| caption = Haigh at electron microscope in 2015
| birth_name = Sarah Jane Haigh
| workplaces = Jeol
University of Manchester
| alma_mater = University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
| doctoral_advisor = Angus Kirkland
| thesis_title = Super Resolution Tilt Series Exit Wave Restoration from Aberration Corrected Images
| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491504
| thesis_year = 2007
| fields = Material Science
Electron microscopy
2D materials
nanoparticles
| awards = IOM3 Silver Medal (2013)
IOM3 Rosenhain Medal (2017)
| website = {{URL|https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/sarah.haigh.html}}
}}
Sarah Jane Haigh is a Professor in the School of Materials at the University of Manchester.{{Google scholar id}}{{ORCID}} She investigates nanomaterials using transmission electron microscopy, including two-dimensional materials such as graphene.
Early life and education
Haigh studied materials science at the University of Oxford, where she was a member of St Anne's College, Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/teaching/prizes.html|title=Student Prizes Oxford Materials|website=www.materials.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-20}} During her undergraduate studies she worked at the aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan.{{cn|date=November 2024}} She used nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry to study titanium doped magnesium diboride during her undergraduate studies.{{cite web|url=https://microscopy-analysis.com/editorials/editorial-listings/sarah-haigh-fast-track-success|title=Sarah Haigh: Fast track to success {{!}} Microscopy and Analysis|website=microscopy-analysis.com|access-date=2018-12-20}} She won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Prize for Best Overall Performance in Parts I and II. Whilst an undergraduate, at the UK 2004 Materials Congress, Haigh won the best poster award.{{cite web|url=http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/news/recentnews/news-past.html|title=Departmental News and Press Articles from before 2010 Oxford Materials|website=www.materials.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-21}} Haigh won the Morgan Crucible Award for the best Materials student in the UK.
Haigh earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/8593556?style=html|title=Super Resolution Tilt Series Exit Wave Restoration from Aberration Corrected Images|first= Sarah Jane|last=Haigh|date=2007|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.491504}}|website=jisc.ac.uk|oclc=276566193}} focussing on the development of exit wave restoration for high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), working under the supervision of Angus Kirkland. She won the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Prize for Best Poster in 2007. She visited JEOL in Japan to test instruments before installing them in Oxford.
Research and career
After completing her PhD in 2008, Haigh worked as an application specialist for JEOL and spent two years working with the Nelson Mandela University in the Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy. She co-edited Nannocharacterisation with Kirkland in 2014.{{Cite book|title=Nanocharacterisation|last1=Smith|first1=David J.|last2=Pennycook|first2=S. J.|last3=Castell|first3=Martin|last4=Brydson|first4=Rik|last5=Dunin-Borkowski|first5=Rafal|last6=Midgley|first6=Paul|last7=Bell|first7=D.|last8=O'Brien|first8=Paul|date=2014|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|isbn=9781849738057|editor-last=Kirkland|editor-first=Angus I.|edition= 2nd New|location=Cambridge|language=English|editor-last2=Haigh|editor-first2=Sarah J.|doi=10.1039/9781847557926 }}
Haigh joined the University of Manchester in 2010. Within two weeks she had put out a tender for a TEM, and secured one that allowed her to do high sensitivity Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. She is interested in electron tomography and elemental imaging of nanomaterials. She has also investigated the changes that occur during wet chemical processes.
Working at the University of Manchester, Haigh became interested in graphene and other 2D materials. She is a member of the National Graphene Institute.{{cite web|url=https://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/research/people/sarah-haigh/|title=Professor Sarah Haigh - Graphene - The University of Manchester|website=www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-20}} Haigh has used TEM to study graphene-boron nitride heterostructures and found that hydrocarbons group in isolated pockets. She used focused ion beam TEM to reveal that graphene layers within electronic devices have perfect alignment.{{cite web|url=https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/july-2012-online/technique-confirms-graphene-can-be-used-in-computer-chips/|title=Technique confirms graphene can be used in computer chips|last=Shead|first=Sam|date=2012-07-30|website=The Engineer|language=en-UK|access-date=2018-12-20}} Haigh has discussed 2D materials on BBC Radio 4.{{cn|date=November 2024}} She won the 2013 IOM3 Silver Medal for her research and education activities.{{cite web|url=https://www.iom3.org/award-winners-2013|title=Award winners 2013 {{!}} IOM3|website=www.iom3.org|access-date=2018-12-20}} She used a graphene 'petri dish' to help image nanomaterials, using graphene-boron nitride liquid crystal cells.{{Cite journal|last1=Kelly|first1=Daniel J.|last2=Zhou|first2=Mingwei|last3=Clark|first3=Nick|last4=Hamer|first4=Matthew J.|last5=Lewis|first5=Edward A.|last6=Rakowski|first6=Alexander M.|last7=Haigh|first7=Sarah J.|last8=Gorbachev|first8=Roman V.|date=2018|title=Nanometer Resolution Elemental Mapping in Graphene-Based TEM Liquid Cells|journal=Nano Letters|volume=18|issue=2|pages=1168–1174|doi=10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04713|issn=1530-6984|pmc=5821409|pmid=29323499|arxiv=1710.06685 |bibcode=2018NanoL..18.1168K }} She demonstrated that graphene-oxide membranes could be used as a sieve to remove the salt from seawater.{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403193120.htm|title=Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water|website=ScienceDaily|language=en|access-date=2018-12-20}}{{Cite journal|last1=Nair|first1=Rahul R.|last2=Geim|first2=Andre K.|last3=Carbone|first3=Paola|last4=Grigorieva|first4=Irina V.|last5=Haigh|first5=Sarah J.|last6=Prestat|first6=Eric|last7=Dix|first7=James|last8=Cherian|first8=Christie T.|last9=Su|first9=Yang|date=2001|title=Tunable sieving of ions using graphene oxide membranes|journal=Nature Nanotechnology|language=en|volume=12|issue=6|pages=546–550|doi=10.1038/nnano.2017.21|pmid=28369049|issn=1748-3395|arxiv=1701.05519|s2cid=115247}} {{closed access}} In 2018 her group identified a new bending behaviour in 2D Materials, that folds were delocalised over several atoms.{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2018-09-origami-d-materials.html|title=Understanding origami in 2-D materials|website=phys.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-12-20}}{{Cite journal|last1=Haigh|first1=S. J.|last2=Young|first2=R. J.|last3=Gorbachev|first3=R. V.|last4=Ding|first4=F.|last5=Auton|first5=G.|last6=Kozikov|first6=A.|last7=Gholinia|first7=A.|last8=Zhao|first8=W.|last9=Li|first9=Z.|date=2018|title=Anomalous twin boundaries in two dimensional materials|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=3597|doi=10.1038/s41467-018-06074-8|issn=2041-1723|pmc=6125487|pmid=30185818|arxiv=1809.00158 |bibcode=2018NatCo...9.3597R }} She demonstrated that catalytic materials could be used to recover energy from waste water.
Haigh was appointed at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in 2010, and in 2015 Haigh was promoted to Reader. In 2015, Haigh was quoted saying
"I was promoted to Reader last year and I'd like to see myself as a Professor within the next five to ten years" and in 2018 Haigh was promoted to Professor (i.e. a Personal Chair).{{cite web|url=https://www.fusion-cdt.ac.uk/key-staff/dr-sarah-haigh/|title=Prof Sarah Haigh|website=Fusion CDT|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-21}}{{cite web|url=http://www.womanthology.co.uk/dBP9n|title=Becoming a material science researcher to find things that no-one else has seen before - Dr. Sarah Haigh, Reader in Materials Characterisation at the University of Manchester|date=2018-01-10|website=Womanthology|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-21}}
She is a member of the committee of the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, and was elected to join as a freeman in 2009.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vw6g6|title=BBC World Service - The Forum, Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-12-20}} She serves on the advisory board of the EPSRC SuperSTEM laboratory in Daresbury.{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/superstem.org/uncoveringatomicsecrets/facility/people|title=Uncovering atomic secrets - People|website=sites.google.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-20}} She won the 2017 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal.{{cn|date=November 2024}}
Haigh was Chair of the Institute of Physics EMAG group (2016–2018) and EMAG Honorary Secretary and Treasurer (2014–2016), a member of council for the RMS (2014–2018).{{cite web|url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/null(44670e23-65ba-4586-bfd7-2a852c3a3501).html|title=Prof Sarah Haigh {{!}} The University of Manchester|website=www.research.manchester.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-21}}
Awards and honours
In 2018 she applied for Freedom of the City of Manchester.{{cite web|url=https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=69956|title=Agenda item - Applications for Freedom of the City|date=2018-03-20|website=democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-12-20}} Her awards and honours include:
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