Synchrotron Light

Engaging and accessible, with a nice combination of intuitive explanations and mathematical descriptions. * Peter Munro, University College London *

Daniele Pelliccia is an experimental physicist and entrepreneur. He graduated with a master’s degree in quantum optics and quantum information, and undertook his PhD research in x-ray optics and imaging. Daniele has been a staff scientist at synchrotron beamlines in Germany and Australia. During his academic career Daniele has secured a DECRA fellowship (Australia) for the development of novel x-ray microscopy techniques. Since 2017, Daniele has been a full-time entrepreneur, founding the company Instruments & Data Tools providing modelling and analytics services for industry. In 2018 Daniele founded Rubens Technologies, commercialising portable spectroscopy sensors for fruit quality assessment.

David M. Paganin is a theoretical physicist with a range of research interests in optical physics. He graduated with a PhD in 1999. David has been affiliated with Monash University since 2002, first as a lecturer and more recently as an adjunct researcher with the School of Physics and Astronomy. He is the author of Coherent X-ray Optics and co-invented several techniques in coherent imaging that are currently widely employed in the fields of x-ray synchrotron science, visible-light microscopy, and electron microscopy.