A schematic of the new algorithmic ideas to be developed in this PhD project (figure by S. Savatović)
Author: Pierre Thibault
Ginevra and Marco join the team!
Two new PhD students just joined the group! Ginevra Lautizi, who just graduated from the University of Trieste, and Marco Margini, from the University of Padova. Ginevra will be working on directional dark-field imaging and tomography, Marco on incoherent and coherent scattering in the context of speckle-based imaging and ptychography.
Physics Today article on ptychography
In this month’s issue of Physics Today, an article written by Prof. Thibault and long-time collaborator Manuel Guizar-Sicairos (Paul Scherrer Institut, Swizerland) presents a review of ptychography. In only 15 years, this imaging technique has become the method offering the highest resolution in 2d and 3d for both X-ray and electron microscopy. The development of… Continue reading Physics Today article on ptychography
Outreach talk at Trieste’s Adriaco
Prof. Thibault was invited by the Regional division of the association Marevivo to give an outreach talk about our recent work using X-rays to help the study of starfish specimens from the Norwegian and Barents seas. The talk was an opportunity to highlight two momentous 125th anniversaries: the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen,… Continue reading Outreach talk at Trieste’s Adriaco
Vittorio joins the team!
Dr. Vittorio Di Trapani, who just completed his PhD at the University of Siena, is joining the team today as a post-doc. Vittorio has vast experience with X-ray imaging, both at synchrotron facilities and in the lab. His expertise will be invaluable to push ahead the dark-field tomography project.
Ptychography for XFEL pulse characterization
In a new paper published last week[pods name=”publication” slug=”daurer2021″ template=”cite”], we show how ptychography can be used to characterize the extremely short and powerful X-ray pulses generated at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS, SLAC Stanford, USA), one of the few X-ray free-electron lasers operating in the world. The work is the result of a… Continue reading Ptychography for XFEL pulse characterization
Fabio joins the team!
Welcome to soon-to-be Doctor Fabio De Marco, who joins the team from today as a post-doctoral researcher. Fabio did his PhD work at the Technical University of Munich (Pfeiffer group) on grating-based X-ray imaging techniques. He will be working on the integration of scattering phenomena in speckle-based X-ray imaging and near-field ptychography.
A starfish in the news
A starfish in the news: our group has joined forces with with Dr. Irene Zanette (Elettra) and Ms. Christina Wood (U. of Southampton) in a project to characterize sea stars of the species Ctenodiscus crispatus from the Norwegian and Barents seas. The objective is to study how the growth and reproduction of these small stars… Continue reading A starfish in the news
Sara joins the group!
Sara Savatović is the first PhD student to join the group. She is originally from Pula, Croatia, and just completed her MSc in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (2020) at the University of Trieste. Her master’s project was on a Monte-Carlo simulation of a medical linear accelerator in Geant4. Sara will be working on speckle-based X-ray… Continue reading Sara joins the group!
The S-BaXIT project begins!
Today is the start of Prof. Thibault’s ERC Consolidator Grant project “Scattering-Based X-ray Imaging and Tomography” (S-BaXIT), with the University of Trieste as the host and the Synchrotron Elettra as a partner. With a budget of €2.2M over 5 years, the project will push the limits of X-ray imaging by attempting to extract as much… Continue reading The S-BaXIT project begins!