Rate My Professor Matthew Weyland

Associate Professor Matthew Weyland serves in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, where he also holds the position of Deputy Director and Spectra Phi TEM Manager at the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy. He joined Monash University in 2006 as one of the inaugural staff members of the Centre, responsible for planning and overseeing the installation of Australia’s first aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope, the FEI Titan 3, and advancing research with this instrument. Previously, Weyland was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell University’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics (2004–2006) and held a Royal Society for the Great Exhibition of 1851 Fellowship at the University of Cambridge following his PhD graduation. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Technology from Brunel University.

Weyland’s research focuses on developing and applying advanced electron microscopy techniques to address materials problems across diverse fields, including polymers, metals, magnetic materials, catalysts, electronic materials, corrosion, light alloys such as Al and Mg, semiconductor heterostructures, and functional nanoparticles. Key areas include quantitative electron microscopy (QEM), electron tomography (ET), and 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM), enabling characterization from micron to atomic scales. With 132 research outputs, his publications have garnered over 9,400 citations and an h-index of 50. Representative works include “Quantitative Structure Determination from Experimental Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy via the Scattering Matrix” (Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2025), “T1 precipitate stacks in an Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Ag alloy” (Journal of Materials Science and Technology, 2026), and contributions to electron tomography advancements. As Chief Investigator on several Australian Research Council grants, such as “From One Structure to Another for Improved Materials Design” (2021–2027), Weyland continues to drive innovation, including supervising the installation of the UltraTEM instrument and accepting PhD students.