Optimising battery performance through materials characterisation

James Sagar is the Business Manager for the Materials Analysis Group at Oxford Instruments. He also takes a lead on Oxford Inst...Read more >

James Sagar is the Business Manager for the Materials Analysis Group at Oxford Instruments. He also takes a lead on Oxford Instruments’ solution development and strategic marketing for the battery industry. James has held several positions within Oxford Instruments over the last 8 years with a focus on several different technologies including electron microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance. Before joining Oxford Instruments, James carried out post graduate research at University College London and a PhD at the University of York, with a focus on developing materials with unusual electron transport properties.

Alexandra is a geologist by training. She studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and in Trinity C...Read more >

Alexandra is a geologist by training. She studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The study of minerals and, in general, nature have always been intriguing to her; initially emphasising on metals (gold and manganese occurrence), later expanding to rock texture analysis. Microanalytical approaches, especially scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) have opened new doors in the observation and quantification of minerals and rocks properties. Alexandra joined Oxford Instruments in 2020 as a Segment Marketing Scientist, focusing on battery materials characterisation.