Mike Toney, PhD profile page

Toney received his BS from Caltech and his PhD from the University of Washington. He was a postdoc at the Risoe National Lab (now DTU) in Denmark, where he participated in some of the first surface X-ray diffraction experiments. He then began working at IBM Almaden Research in materials sciences. He left IBM in 2003 to join SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford, where he initiated programs in sustainable energy materials. He joined CU Boulder in Fall 2020. Toney is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher in Materials Sciences. He is a pioneer in the use of X-ray diffraction and small angle scattering for the determination of molecular and mesoscale structure of organic and polymeric thin films, for the determination of atomic structure of electrode-electrolyte interfaces and for operando observations of energy storage materials.