Lynne McCusker

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Hawaii (1980)

Research Interests

   Methods of structure determination from powder diffraction data
   Zeolite structure analysis
   Synchrotron radiation
   Electron crystallography
   Current research projects

Professional activities

   Member of the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association since 1989
      Co-chair July 1989 - June 1993
      Chair July 1993 - July 2001
   Member of the IUCr Subcommittee on the Union Calendar since 1999
   Member of the IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction 1993-1999
      Secretary 1996-1999
   Consultant to the IUCr Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures 2002-2008
   Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials since 2007
   Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden since 2011
   Member of the Editorial Board of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 1998-2008
   Co-editor for Acta Crystallographica B 2005-2008

   European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
      Chair of the Chemistry Beamtime Allocation Committee 1999-2001
      Swiss delegate to the Science Advisory Committee 1999-2002
      Swiss scientific delegate to the Council 2003-2011

   IUPAC Consultant since 2001

Honors

IZA Award 2010
   for the seminal contributions made together with Christian Baerlocher to the crystallography of zeolites and
   for continuous service to the zeolite community

Donald W. Breck Award 2007 (together with O. Terasaki and Ch. Baerlocher)
   for their outstanding contribution to the structural elucidation of inorganic molecular sieves

Physical Crystallography Award 1989
   awarded by the Physical Group of the British Crystallographic Association

Richard M. Barrer Award 1987
   awarded by the British Zeolite Association

PowerPoint Files

These short PowerPoint presentations can be used to introduce newcomers to the field of powder diffraction. They have been prepared on a Mac running under Mac OS X (10.3.5) using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac. If you have any difficulty downloading or reading the files, please send me an e-mail at the address shown above.

PowderDiffraction.ppt
Texture.ppt
StructureSolutionMaze.ppt
Crystallography.ppt

Publications

To the Powder diffraction / Zeolite Group