Dr Daniel Le Messurier
QUALIFICATIONS
Skilled researcher experienced in computational and experimental methods, ranging from billion dollar synchroton facilities to standard laboratory equipment such as XRD, FTIR, NMR. Experience in both the academic and industrial environments. Experience in both leading, and working as part of, a multi-national team con- ducting scientific research. Constantly exhibits leadership qualities whilst enhancing teamwork to achieve stated goals. Experience in programming using C and Visual Basic.
EXPERIENCE Senior Scientist, Valeo Sylvania, Seymour, IN 2008-Present
• Developed / Conducted Thermal, Condensation, Structural, Modal, and LED based simulations.
• Considered the “Go to” guy for all technical questions regarding thermal, condensation, structural, vibrational and LED issues for North American operations.
• Developed new methodology for multi-LED array designs in automotive lighting applications.
• Supervision of university co-op students
• Member of multi-national key users committee for thermal, structural and LED technologies.
Visiting Professor, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 2007-2008
• Presented course material to multi-department students in the Calculus Based Physics course.
• Member of a multi-national NSF funded material network studying the mixed network former effect in glasses.
• Co-supervisor of masters level student.
• Conducted Reverse Monte Carlo based simulation on XRD data of disordered solids.
• Referee for the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
Lecturer, University Of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom 2006-2007
• Full time lecturer for Quantum Mechanics II, Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Techniques for Physicists, and Experimental Physics.
• Student mentor
• Lead multi-national research team to develop and conduct the worlds first In-Situ High Temperature Anomalous Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Experiment (conducted at BESSY, Berlin).
PhD Research Scientist, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom 2003-2006
• Won a fully funded PhD scholarship from Pilkington PLC (a world leader in flat glass manufacturing).
• Conducted research into the corrosion of refractory materials by molten sodium silicate glass.
• Assisted in the delivering of the undergraduate course – Mathematical Physics.
• Presented papers and posters at a variety of national and international scientific conferences.
EDUCATION
• University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK PhD in Physics – Thesis title – “Corrosion of alumin-zirconia-silicate refractories by molten sodium silicate glass.” [2007]
• University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK MPhys in Physics [2003]
ABBREVIATED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
• Le Messurier, D., “Monte Carlo simulations of LED output flux from multi-LED arrays”, Society of Automotive Engineers, Submitted (2010)
• Le Messurier, D., Petkov, V., “Atomic-scale structure of GeSe2 glass revisited: a continuous or broken network of Ge-(Se1/2)4 tetrahedra”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 22, 115402, (2010) – IOP Select Paper
• Le Messurier et. Al. “Three-dimensional structure of fast ion conducting 0.5Li2S+0.1[(1-x)GeS2+xGeO2] glasses from high-energy x-ray diffraction and reverse monte carlo simulations”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Sol- ids, 355, 430-437, (2008)
• Le Messurier et.Al. “In-situ studies of the morphological changes of an alumina-zirconia-silicate ceramic during its formation.”, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 39, 589-594, (2006)
• Winter, R., Le Messurier, D., Martin, CM., “Energy dependent in-situ small angle x-ray scattering of nanoceramics.”, Crystallography Reviews, 12, 3-12, (2006)
• Le Messurier et.Al. “Interfacial structure of annealed alumina-zirconia-silicate nanoceramics.”, Materials Science and Technology, 20, 975-979, (2004)
AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
•Paper on GeSe2 glass featured as an IOP Select Paper (2010)
•Research on high temperature ceramics featured in top 15 highlights for Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation
Department Annual Report (2007/08) •HEFCW Fellowship Award (2006/07)
•Won industrial C.A.S.E award for PhD sponsorship from Pilkington Plc (2003-06)
•University of Wales, Aberystwyth Sulston Memorial Prize – For outstanding experimental research (2003)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
•Sigma Pi Sigma – Honor Society of Physics Students •Member of the Institute of Physics (UK)
•Member of the American Ceramics Society
•Registered Referee for the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids