Liam Collins
Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ireland
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Top SchoolLiam Collins is a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with eight years of postdoctoral and staff experience and over a decade in nanoscale materials research, specializing in electromechanical and electrochemical phenomena at solid–liquid interfaces. He holds a PhD in single-molecule biophysics and scanning probe microscopy and has led development of novel AFM-based and multidimensional electrochemical force microscopy techniques to resolve local behavior at nanopores, step edges, and defects. His work spans energy storage, sensing, and biological systems, bringing lab-grade measurement precision to operando conditions. Unusually for a senior materials scientist, Liam also earned an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and actively integrates trauma-informed communication, resilience-building, and mentorship into collaborative research environments. Based in Ireland and rooted in both education and research, he combines hands-on instrumentation development with a human-centered approach to scientific leadership.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, 4,0, Master of Science - MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, 4,0 at Carson-Newman UniversityPhd. Degree in Physics, Single Molecular biophysics and scanning probe microscopy, Phd. Degree in Physics, Single Molecular biophysics and scanning probe microscopy at University College DublinMSc Applied Physics, Medical imaging, 3.3, MSc Applied Physics, Medical imaging, 3.3 at University of Limerick
Irish, French
Github Skills (13)
stem10
scanning10
infrared10
imaging10
microscopy10
signal-processing10
fft9
visualization9
statistics9
machine-learning8
astronomy8
python8
stm7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
Liambcollins/pycroscopy
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Scientific analysis of nanoscale materials imaging data
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 6 months
pythonimagingastronomyscientificscientific-analysis
pycroscopy/pySPM-on-SPM
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 days
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