Graduated in physics from the University of Exeter in 1982; PhD (1986) and PDRA (1986-88) in the University of Cambridge. Early research work on instrumentation development for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), and the application of new techniques including coherent nanodiffraction and energy loss spectroscopy to the study of material structure. Royal Society Research Fellow from 1988, based in the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge, working on the phase problem as applied to super-resolution methods in electron microscopy, and advanced methods of electron spectroscopy.

Here's a picture of John using the VG STEM in about 1989:

1996-7 was spent setting up an early .com enterprise, and losing lots of money.

He held the Chair of Materials Analysis in the (then) Materials Research Institute (now MERI)of Sheffield Hallam University between 1999-2003, where he worked on all areas of bulk and surface analysis, PVD coatings, advanced lubricious coatings, glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy, sol-gel coatings and contrast mechanisms in environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM).

In July 2003 he moved to his present post in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the University of Sheffield, where he is working on phase-retrieval methods in Gabor holograms.

John Rodenburg has taught dozens of people how to use various types of electron microscopes over the last twenty years. .

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