Bridget Ingham

Biography

Dr Bridget Ingham is a Senior Research Scientist at Callaghan Innovation (formerly Industrial Research Ltd.). Following her PhD (Physics, VUW, 2005) she spent two years as a post-doc at Imperial College London and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, where she developed her current expertise in the use of synchrotron techniques for investigating nanomaterials, particularly X-ray diffraction, small-angle X-ray scattering, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Bridget has been an Associate Investigator of the MacDiarmid Institute since 2007. She has performed synchrotron experiments on many systems, including in situ observation of nanoparticle synthesis, oxidation, and coalescence; in situ observation of nanopore size and strain development during dealloying of bimetallic foils; in situ electrochemical deposition of ZnO, and CO2 corrosion of steel; atomic structure of superconductors; atomic structure of dopant atoms in ZnO; transient crystalline phases that occur during the synthesis of conducting polymers; particle size distributions in sunscreen, paint, and milk. She has served on the Proposal Advisory Committees for the powder diffraction and small-angle X-ray scattering beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron.

Research Interest

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology