Sarah Jane Haigh

Early life and education Haigh studied materials science at the University of Oxford, where she was a member of St Anne's College, Oxford. During her undergraduate studies she worked at the aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan. She used nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry to study titanium doped magnesium diboride during her undergraduate studies. She won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Prize for Best Overall Performance in Parts I and II. Haigh won the Morgan Crucible Award for the best Materials student in the UK. focussing on the development of exit wave restoration for high resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), working under the supervision of Angus Kirkland. She won the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Prize for Best Poster in 2007.

Haigh joined the University of Manchester in 2010. Haigh has used TEM to study graphene-boron nitride heterostructures and found that hydrocarbons group in isolated pockets. Haigh has discussed 2D materials on BBC Radio 4. She won the 2013 IOM3 Silver Medal for her research and education activities. She used a graphene 'petri dish' to help image nanomaterials, using graphene-boron nitride liquid crystal cells. She demonstrated that graphene-oxide membranes could be used as a sieve to remove the salt from seawater. In 2018 her group identified a new bending behaviour in 2D Materials, that folds were delocalised over several atoms. She demonstrated that catalytic materials could be used to recover energy from waste water.

She is a member of the committee of the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, and was elected to join as a freeman in 2009. She serves on the advisory board of the EPSRC SuperSTEM laboratory in Daresbury. She won the 2017 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal.

Haigh was Chair of the Institute of Physics EMAG group (2016–2018) and EMAG Honorary Secretary and Treasurer (2014–2016), a member of council for the RMS (2014–2018).

Awards and honours In 2018 she applied for Freedom of the City of Manchester. Her awards and honours include: 2017 IOM3 Rosenhain Medal 2013 IOM3 Silver Medal