Rick Passey is Senior Manager of the Americas Product
Specialist Team for SEM, DualBeam, TEM, and XPS at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He
spent 13 years at Hewlett-Packard leading an SEM/FIB failure analysis lab
before joining FEI (now Thermo Fisher) in 2008 as a NanoPort Applications
Scientist, becoming SEM/DualBeam Product Specialist in 2018 and team manager in
2022. His expertise spans environmental SEM to plasma FIB and 3D EDS/EBSD to
advanced TEM sample prep. In his spare time, Rick walks his dogs, explores the
outdoors, and tinkers with new technology, all while trying to convince his
very patient wife it’s “not really work.”