Time is running out to register for the next UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at Ulster University (Belfast Campus), July 1-2, hosted by Amir Farokh Payam. You have until Tuesday June 23rd to register if you wish to attend the conference banquet via our website at www.uksaf.net

We are gearing up for our meeting at Ulster University and are pleased to announce the following exhibitors: CN Tech ScientaOmicron SPECS Group Thermo Fisher Scientific @thermofishersci.bsky.social VSM Instruments ionTOF Ionoptika Blue Scientific Park Systems Zurich Instruments Kratos Analytical

Our next meeting will be at Ulster University (Belfast Campus), provisionally July 1-2. Please stay tuned to this account and the UKSAF website for updates!

Our final session features Robin Simpson presenting on femtosecond laser ablation XPS and Shaoliang Guan speaking on transition metal dichalcogenides.

Our third session focused on opportunities for students & research technical professionals through UKSAF, @uk-itss.bsky.social & the NTPMI. Many thanks to Kay Doncom & Polly Greensmith for their talks. The session wrapped up with Keith Butler from UCL on AI methods for materials discovery.

Our second session sees Karen Syres from the University of Lancashire talking on ionic liquid modified perovskites, followed by Daniel Lee from the University of Manchester describing work using NMR for surface analysis.

Our first session of the day sees Geoff Thornton from UCL speaking on electrolyte interfaces with oxide surfaces, followed by Johannes Lischner from Imperial College with a talk on modelling core electron binding energies at metal oxide surfaces.

Welcome to the delegates attending our 2026 Winter Meeting at UCL. David Morgan and @robertpalgrave.bsky.social have opened the meeting and we look forward to an enjoyable day of surface science

We are pleased to confirm another speaker for the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th. Geoff Thornton will be presenting his group's work on "Structure of electrolyte interfaces with oxide surfaces" at the conference. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net

We are pleased to have Keith Butler (UCL) speaking at the next UKSAF meeting. His research uses data-driven methods & quantum mechanics calculations to design new materials & help accelerate the experimental characterisation of materials. Registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

Hiden Analytical are the next vendor to be confirmed in the conference exhibition for the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th, taking us to 10 vendors! Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Vendor space reservations: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

In the build up to the next UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting on January 7th at UCL, we are pleased to confirm Scienta Omicron as a vendor in our conference exhibition. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Vendor space reservations: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

Ionoptika Ltd will be joining the vendor exhibition at the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th! Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Exhibition space reservations: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

Today we are pleased to confirm Blue Scientific as a vendor for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Vendor space registration: warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

We are pleased to announce a special session at the next UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting focusing on opportunities for students and technical professionals. Meeting registration is open at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

The next vendor to be confirmed for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL in January is CN Technical Services Ltd. You can register for this meeting at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 , while vendor space can be reserved at warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

We are pleased to confirm @thermofisher to the exhibition lineup at the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 Space is still available for additional exhibitors, please register via warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

We are delighted to confirm Karen Syres from the University of Lancashire as a speaker at the UKSAF meeting at UCL on January 7th. Karen will be presenting her work on "Ionic liquid-modified perovskite films for enhanced solar cell stability" Meeting registration is open at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

Today we are pleased to announce the support of VSM Instruments as a vendor at the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th, 2026. Meeting registration: www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

The third vendor confirmed for the upcoming UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th is Kratos Analytical Ltd. You can visit them in our exhibition by registering for the meeting at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20 To browse their surface analysis product range, please visit www.kratos.com

Our next vendor announcement for the 2026 Winter Meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum is Scientific Analysis Instruments (SAI). You will be able to visit them at our meeting by registering for you place at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

We are pleased to confirm Johannes Lischner from the Department of Materials at Imperial College London as a speaker at the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th.

We are pleased to confirm Johannes Lischner from the Department of Materials at Imperial College London as a speaker at the UK Surface Analysis Forum meeting at UCL on January 7th.

The 2026 Winter Meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum is in just 5 weeks! We are pleased to have @djscientificuk.bsky.social as a vendor supporting the meeting! They work with some of the best researchers & instrumentation manufacturers to offer the very best sales, service & consultancy support.

With that, the meeting has come to a close. Thank you to all of the speakers, delegates & vendors who made this a special and successful meeting. Congratulations to our local organisers, David Cant, Benjamen Reed, Gustavo F. Trindade & Alex Shard, along with the NPL events team.

It's time to honour our YSA competition winners! We had 6 finalists who all delivered excellent talks & posters, making the judging very difficult! In the end, the winners were: Seah Award - Eleanor Ender Castle Award - Aleksandar Radic IOP Crossley Award - Anna Trzaska Congratulations to you all!

We are delighted to announce that Sebastiaan Van Nuffel has been awarded the Vickerman Prize for his extensive track record in mass spectrometry imaging, specifically time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), and its application in biological and medical research. Congratulations!

The final talk of the Summer 2025 UKSAF meeting is from Anna Kotowska of the University of Nottingham. She is presenting her work on the chemical analysis of biofilms with Orbi-SIMS.

Our final session begins with a talk from Clare Newell from the The Francis Crick Institute and NPL with her latest work on cryo-orbiSIMS.

Next up we have Marcus Rohnke describing work on hard carbon battery anodes. Following this will be vendor presentations from SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH (Paul Dietrich), IONTOF (Matthias Kleine-Boymann) and Scienta Omicron (Ad Ettema).