Professor Nigel Browning is currently the Chair of Electron Microscopy in the School of Engineering and Director of the Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy at the University of Liverpool (since 2017). 

He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Reading, U. K. (1988) and his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, U. K (1991). He has held positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1992-1995), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2003-2006), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2006-2011) and most recently, was a Laboratory Fellow and Initiative Lead for the Chemical Imaging Initiative (CII) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (2011-2017).

He was also an Assistant/Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2002), Professor of Materials Science (2003-2011) and Professor of Molecular Biology (2009-2011) at the University of California-Davis.  He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Microscopy Society of America (MSA).  He received the Burton Award from the Microscopy Society of America in 2002 and the Coble Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2003 for developing atomic resolution methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). 

With his collaborators at LLNL, he also received the R&D 100 and Nano 50 Awards in 2008 and a Microscopy Today Innovation Award in 2010 for the development of the dynamic transmission electron microscope (DTEM).  He has over 400 refereed publications (~30,000 citations, h-index=93) and has given over 380 invited presentations on developing and applying advanced STEM/TEM methods.  For the past four years, he has also been working as a co-founder of SenseAI. This start-up company is commercializing intellectual property he co-developed on Inpainting for electron microscopy (>15 patents on compressive sensing and machine learning for imaging).