Skip to main content
Instrumentation and measurement

Instrumentation and measurement

Ion therapy, mass spectrometry and the origins of life: Lily Ellis-Gibbings shares her passion for creating novel instrumentation

29 May 2024 Hamish Johnston

Lily Ellis-Gibbings is a higher scientist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL). She has developed a wide range of instrumentation in fields as diverse as ion therapy, astrochemistry and ambient ion mass spectrometry. Ellis-Gibbings talks to Hamish Johnston about her passion for building instruments and shares her tips for a successful career in instrumentation

Lily Ellis-Gibbings
Lily Ellis-Gibbings “I'm developing ambient ionization techniques that allow us to do mass spectrometry on samples in air with no sample preparation”. (Courtesy: NPL)
How did you first become interested in working in the field of instrumentation? When I was in the fi

You’ve reached the limit of what you can view on Physics World without registering

If you already have an account on Physics World, then please sign in to continue reading

If you do not yet have an account, please register so you can

  • Access more than 20 years of online content
  • Choose which e-mail newsletters you would like to receive
Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors