Mark Salomons

Mark Salomons is the Team Lead for Developmental and Analytical Microscopy at NRC NANO. Mark has been a Research Council Officer for the National Research Council where he has worked for over 15 years. He has built more than 11 microscopes including multiple probe scanning tunneling microscopes, field ion microscopes and transmission electron microscopes. After graduating from high school, Mark attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology for Aircraft Maintenance. For the next 5 years he worked as an aircraft and helicopter mechanic in northern Alberta and the Maldives. He then returned to the University of Alberta for his degree in Engineering Physics, interning in the University of Alberta Nanofab during the summer. Upon graduating, he was hired at the NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology.