Areas of Expertise
- X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
- X-ray fluorescence imaging
About
Miranda Vu is an Industrial Support Scientist at the CLS, specializing in X-ray fluorescence experiments. Over the past four years at the CLS, she has worked on a variety of projects across several of the facility's beamlines.
She completed her B.Sc. in chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan where she gained experience with lab practices, including sample preparation and spectroscopy.
Outside of the CLS, Miranda likes spending time with her husband and catching up on some TV.
Publications
Forand, A. D., Finfrock, Y. Z., Lavier, M., Stobbs, J., Qin, L., Wang, S., Karunakaran, C., Wei, Y., Ghosh, S., & Tanino, K. K. (2022). With a little help from my cell wall: Structural modifications in pectin may play a role to overcome both dehydration stress and fungal pathogens. Plants, 11(3), 385. 10.3390/plants11030385
Guldiken, B., Konieczny, D., Wang, N., Hou, A., House, J. D., Tu, K., Rosendahl, S., Lavier, M., & Nickerson, M. T. (2021). Effect of variety and environment on the physicochemical, functional, and nutritional properties of navy bean flours. European Food Research and Technology, 247(7), 1745–1756. 10.1007/s00217-021-03745-7
Sudheeshkumar, V., Lavier, M., Lukan, B., Shen, J., Semagina, N., & Scott, R. W. J. (2021). Silica-encapsulated palladium clusters for methane combustion catalysis. Catalysis Today, 407, 223–229. 10.1016/j.cattod.2021.11.031