- UF engineer and electron microscopy expert Nicholas Rudawski uses YouTube to help others learn to operate electron microscopes and understand electron microscopy concepts and fundamentals.
- He created an open-access electron microscopy-related YouTube education channel with more than 5,700 subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views worldwide.
- He champions approachable scientific communication, which helps students, researchers and industry professionals worldwide.
Nicholas Rudawski, Ph.D., an electron microscopy expert at the University of Florida’s Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF), is helping students and researchers from around the world use electron microscopes and understand electron microscopy, one video at a time.
Rudawski, an associate engineer, earned his bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan in 2005 and his doctorate from UF in 2008. He joined the NRF as faculty in 2012, where he oversees training, operations and maintenance of scanning/transmission electron microscopes, known as S/TEMs.