As a coordinator for the TEM Center at the Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, I am responsible for our Transmission Electron Microscopes. By means of these microscopes, we can analyse the structure, morphology and chemical composition of a wide variety of materials down to the nano scale. With this technique, we try to determine the composition of archaeological artefacts and thus their origin and purpose.

Keywords: Materials science, material analysis, electron microscopy, nano science