Peter Beaucage

Dr. Peter Beaucage has been working in in situ and high-throughput SAXS/WAXS for the past decade, with the last six years spent as a regular user of G1, D1, A2, and other beamlines at CHESS. His scientific interests lie in the intersection of advanced synthesis and novel synchrotron techniques to enable next-generation organic-inorganic hybrid materials at the energy-water nexus - energy conversion and storage materials, water membranes, mesostructured quantum materials, and other systems. During his graduate work at Cornell, Peter co-developed the XPLAM technique for high-throughput metastable materials discovery, used high-throughput SAXS to find new routes to block copolymer-derived membranes and quantum metamaterials, and commissioned a platform for simultaneous SAXS-WAXS-XAS during high temperature processing in reactive gases.

As a NRC postdoc fellow at NIST, he is developing resonant hard and soft x-ray scattering metrologies at the ALS, NSLS-II, and (after the upgrade) CHESS to elucidate the structure of reverse osmosis membranes and other systems. As a frequent CHESS user and Cornell alum, he is passionate about ensuring that CHESS retains its three central and unique facets: a training ground for the next generation of synchrotron scientists, a home for world-class user instrumentation, and a place where groundbreaking new experimental ideas are proven, developed, and scaled. He further hopes to encourage the expansion of existing efforts to broaden user outreach and awareness, particularly of underrepresented and underserved user communities. As CHESS-U continues to be built out and the first user experiments begin, the importance of the UEC cannot be understated and he is excited to contribute to the future of this fantastic facility.

For more information about Peter please go to:  http://www.peterbeaucage.com/