The Manchester XPS Team

Ben Spencer
Faculty Lead - HAXPES

Ben is faculty lead for Surface Analysis at the University of Manchester and also works within the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials. Since 2019 he has led development of laboratory-based hard X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) with a first-of-its-kind instrument from Scienta Omicron GmbH, part of Royce as well as HarwellXPS. His research spans a variety of advanced materials research particularly energy materials including photovoltaics. Ben is a committee member in the IoP Materials and Characterisation special interest group.

Alex Walton
NAP-XPS

The Aber XPS Team

Prof. Andy Evans
Faculty Lead - AberXPS