Proposal of the Croatian Microscopy Society for awarding the "Spiridion Brusina" Medal to Professor Miran Čeh, PhD, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

Cooperation with Professor Miran Čeh started back in 2007, when a member of the Croatian Microscopy Society (CMS), Andreja Gajović, joined the group of Prof. Miran Čeh for post-doctoral training to Jožef Stefan Institute. Since then, Prof. Čeh collaborated extensively with Croatian scientists through a number of bilateral projects, and in this way participated and still participates in the education of Croatian scientists on high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Moreover, Milivoj Plodinec, a member of CMS, spent a sixmonth TEM training (2011/2012) at the Department for Nanostructured Materials, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Croatian Science Foundation's scholarship for doctoral students, project title "Titanate nanostructures - synthesis and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TinaTEM)"). Training was performed under the mentorship of Prof. Čeh in the field of synthesis of nanomaterials and their characterization, using, primarily, basic, and advanced techniques of electron microscopy. Plodinec gathered significant knowledge in scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and respected techniques. He transferred the acquired knowledge to the Ruđer Bošković Institute, where he was working on the functionalization of Ti0₂ nanostructures for various applications.