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Main Office

12 Shepherd Labs
100 Union Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455		 Phone:  (612) 626-7594
Fax:  (612) 625-5368
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General Staff

For general and administrative inquiries, please contact the following staff members:

Greg Haugstad
201 Shepherd Labs		 Director; tours, collaboration, general technical inquiries
Schedule   (e-mail is best)		 (612) 868-4069
Joel Overlander
16 Shepherd Labs		 Accounting (including purchase orders) and human resources (612) 625-0776
Alice Ressler
1-236 Nils Hasselmo Hall		 Client relations and External User registration (including service/lab-user agreements) (612) 625-6927
IT Support Staff
11 Shepherd Labs		 IT support: computers, networking, database (612) 626-2262

Technical Staff

Technical specialists manage instruments in the Characterization Facility, develop capabilities, and provide expert analytical services, training & assistance.  Please contact the following with specific technical inquiries.  The order of techniques is according to staff member's emphasis.

Chris Frethem
1-232 Nils Hasselmo Hall		 SEM (including cryo and bio), ancillary prep tools (612) 624-4652
Bob Hafner
17-164A Moos Tower		 TEM (including cryo and bio), cryo prep
Schedule		 (612) 625-3974
Greg Haugstad
201 Shepherd Labs		 SPM/AFM, Ion beam analysis (RBS/FReS, PIXE, NRA)
Schedule   (e-mail is best)		 (612) 868-4069
Bing Luo
29B Shepherd Labs		 XPS/ESCA, AES & sputter profiling; Confocal Raman & FTIR, microcontact angle meter (612) 625-1841
Mike Manno
14 Shepherd Labs		 X-ray diffraction (XRD) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) (612) 624-2979
Jason Myers
55 Shepherd Labs		 Advanced materials TEM (HR/STEM/EDS/EELS) (612) 626-3613
John Nelson
18 Shepherd Labs		 Nano/micro-mechanical testing (612) 625-4893
Alice Ressler
1-236 Nils Hasselmo Hall		 Bio specimen prep, microtomy (cryo), TEM (bio) (612) 626-3756
Nicholas Seaton
53 Shepherd Labs		 SEM (EDS/EBSD) (612) 626-5314
Jake Warner
18 Shepherd Labs		 SAXS, SPM, cryo-SEM (612) 624-4136
Wei Zhang
1-236 Nils Hasselmo Hall		 Cryo-TEM on bio and soft materials, tomography/3D reconstruction (612) 624-1522
Fang Zhou
1-234 Nils Hasselmo Hall		 Microtomy (cryo), bio specimen prep, TEM (bio), SEM (612) 626-5315