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
   Laue microdiffraction
   Current research projects

Professional activities

   Member of the Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association since 1989
      Co-chair   Jul 1989 - Jun 1993
      Chair   Jul 1993 - Jun 1999
   Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Berzeli Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials   since 2007
   Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden   2011-2013
   Member of the Editorial Board of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials   1998-2008
   IUPAC Consultant since 2001

   International Union of Crystallography
      Member of the IUCr Subcommittee on the Union Calendar   1999-2014
      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
      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

Honors

   Doctorate of Philosophy honoris causa, 2014
      Stockholm University, Sweden
   Edith M. Flanigan Award Lecture 2013
      Honeywell UOP, Des Plains, IL, USA
   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, with the exception of PowderDiffraction.pptx (Mac OSX 10.9, PowerPoint 2011 for Mac). If you have any difficulty downloading or reading the files, please send me an e-mail at the address shown above.
   PowderDiffraction.pptx
   Texture.ppt
   StructureSolutionMaze.ppt
   Crystallography.ppt

Publications

To the Powder diffraction / Zeolite Group