Steam Instruments Founders

John A. Hunt, PhD, Founder, Chairman and CTO

  • CTO, Gatan, Inc. (2009-2019); SEVP R&D (2000-2009)​
  • 30+ years of S/TEM, SEM, XRM, LM, MS, EELS, CL & cryomicroscopy technique and instrument development, 50+ US and international patents​
  • Technology, product & business development; engineering & operations management; M&A


Thomas F. Kelly, PhD, Founder, President and CEO

  • Founder of Imago Scientific Instruments Corporation (now part of CAMECA Instruments) and inventor of LEAP, an atomic-scale imaging mass spectrometer​
  • 30+ years of atom probe & mass spectrometer instrumentation development​
  • National Academy of Engineering
  • Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983-2001)​

 

Igor V. Veryovkin, PhD, Founder, and Director of Research

  • Staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (1998-2014) 
  • Research Associate Professor at University of Illinois-Chicago (2014-2020)​
  • 30+ years of mass spectrometer instrumentation development​
  • Developed major instruments such as SARISA and SPIRIT at Argonne and major contributions to development of CHILI at the University of Chicago​ and DUST-BUSTER at Institute of Earth Science, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
  • Inventor of Right-Angle Ion Mirror Prism (RAIMP) mass spectrometer

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