Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Theme Co-Leader, Leader of WG 1 – Spectral Nano-imaging, member of WG 4 – Coherent Imaging Methods, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Development of Spectral Imaging Pathway

Group Manager, Imaging Beamlines, MAX IV, and Beamline Manager, SoftiMAX, MAX IV, Sweden.

Karina is Group Manager of Imaging Beamlines and beamline scientist at MAX IV with a background in physics and spectroscopy. Her expertise spans a wide range of (synchrotron) techniques and sample systems. With contacts to a wide network of imaging specialists, her aim is to develop the user community, especially towards under-represented science areas. She is also the main organizer of the bi-annual X-ray Microscopy conference, to be held in Lund in August 2024.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Theme Co-Leader, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Strategy Development, Education and Innovation, Instrument Development

Project Leader, MedMAX, MAX IV, and Development Strategist, Lund University, Sweden.

Selma has a scientific background in the development of scattering methods for studies in health and disease. She has experience from industry, academia, large scale research infrastructure, the Swedish and European funding ecosystem and as the founder of several national and international research networks, educational programs, and innovative start-ups. She founded and developed Northern Lights on Food, a national and international research network, and research theme at the LINXS Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. Selma initiated the national collaboration Infralife joining MAX IV, ESS and Scilifelab to open and broaden the use of infrastructure in Life Science to both academia, industry, and health care. Developed PRISMAS, a national PhD program training 40 PhD students joining nine universities and 43 associated partners. She is project leader for the development a life science beamline and corresponding user community at MAX IV. Currently, Selma leads the implementation phase for the establishment of “Swedish Platforms for Advanced Infrastructure for Research, Innovation and Technology (SPIRIT)”, a national technical park function surrounding MAX IV and ESS.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Leader of WG 4 – Coherent Imaging Methods, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Education, Competence, and Innovation

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Sweden.

Martin is Associate Professor at Medical Radiation Physics at Lund University. He has a scientific background in X-ray physics and specialized in X-ray imaging method development. Martin has a strong track record of grating-based X-ray interferometry for X-ray phase-contrast and X-ray dark-field imaging for imaging of organic materials at synchrotron radiation facilities, at conventional X-ray sources and at neutrons facilities. He has been an active member of the LINXS community since the start of the Imaging theme and is playing an active role in the development of a new beamline at MAX IV dedicated to tomography and imaging of organic materials. He has more than 10 years of experience in undergraduate teaching of ionising radiation and was co-founder and leader of the graduate research school “Imaging of 3D structures” organised across the faculties of science, engineering, and medicine at Lund University 2014-2019. In addition to user experience at multiple European synchrotrons, Martin is engaged in the proposal review panels at PETRA III and MAX IV. He has received research funding from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, from the Swedish Research council, and is currently PI on an ERC consolidator grant developing X-ray imaging instrumentation for bio-medical research.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Core Group member, Leader of WG 2 – Phase-contrast micro-tomography, phase retrieval, and reconstruction, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Data Advancement and Instrument Development

Senior lecturer, Division of Solid Mechanics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden.

Stephen is a Senior lecturer at the Division of Solid Mechanics at Lund University and former director of LINXS. Stephen’s research covers a wide range of material questions with a focus on understanding the micro scale origins of material mechanics and coupled processes. He works with a wide range of experimental methods, including extensively with x-rays and neutrons and, in particular, imaging and other 2D, 3D and 4D full- field measurement approaches. Stephen runs the 4D Imaging Lab X-ray tomography facility in Lund and heads up the Swedish side of QIM. He has been very much involved in both the ESS and MAX IV projects, including being a member of the imaging and engineering STAP and currently as a SAC member for ESS. He has also been leading the push for a materials imaging beamline at MAX IV.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Core Group member, Leader of WG 3 – Advanced image processing, image analysis, and visualisation, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Data Advancement and Instrument Development

Associate professor, Visual Computing, DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark and QIM, MAX IV, Sweden.

Vedrana is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark. She holds degrees in mathematics, multimedia technology, and a Ph.D. degree in geometry processing. Her primary research interest is in using geometric models for the analysis of volumetric data. This includes volumetric segmentation, tomographic segmentation, and methods based on deformable meshes. She developed image analysis tools with applications in material science, industrial inspection, and biomedicine. Her other research interests include quantitative analysis of microstructure, 2D and 3D texture analysis and 3D methods for digitizing cultural heritage.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Core Group member, Leader of WG 1 – Spectral Nano-imaging, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Sample preparation and method development

Associate Professor in Molecular Imaging and head of the Medical Microspectroscop Laboratory at Lund University, Sweden.

Oxana is an Associate Professor in Molecular Imaging and head of the Medical Microspectroscopy Laboratory at Lund University. She specialises in molecular imaging. Her research focuses on amyloid proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Oxana achieved significant breakthroughs in infrared multimodal imaging, particularly by pioneering an IR imaging approach for subcellular amyloid detection in AD transgenic neurons (Advanced Science, 2020; JACS 2023). Her group's innovations include the development of correlative nano spectroscopic methods for direct amyloid analysis in neurons, revealing a direct link between β-sheet formation and amyloid-β's pathological effects. From 2021 to 2023, Oxana also served as a co-director of LINXS, where she contributed to the development of the imaging network, with a specific aim of building a multimodal imaging community. In 2023, she furthered her impact by establishing a multiscale IR platform, which features cutting-edge instruments like OPTIR and NanoIR.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Core Group member, member of WG 2 – Phase-contrast micro-tomography, phase retrieval, and reconstruction, LINXS Fellow

Core responsibility in Theme: Education, competence, and Innovation

Associate Professor, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Sophie is an Associate professor at Uppsala University. She has a scientific background in evolutionary biology and palaeontology, and has developed virtual palaeohistology during her postdoc in collaboration with colleagues from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) for submicron investigations of fossils using X-ray microtomography. She is PI of an ERC Consolidator and several VR grants developing the use of synchrotron imaging for histological investigations of fossils at the fish-to-tetrapod transition. Sophie has been an invited speaker at the World Meeting on Heritage, Sciences and Technologies, in Paris (2019), ESRF-EBS workshop on Cultural and Natural Heritage, in Grenoble (2020) and LINXS Symposium and Hackathon IPDD theme – 3D Histology with Synchrotron Microtomography, in Lund (2023) for promoting synchrotron 3D imaging in cultural fields. Invited to teach in the following PhD summer school/courses São Paulo School of Advanced Science (ESPCA), Synchrotron of Campinas, Brazil (2011), RÅC International Summer School (RACIRI), Stockholm, Sweden (2014), Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden (2016-2018). She is a member of the University Reference Group at MAX IV (Uppsala University scientific advisor in Life Science) and board member of the Center for Photon Science at Uppsala University. She has been engaged in proposal and cross-cut review panels at the ESRF for life science, palaeontology, and cultural heritage.

Advanced Imaging and Data Analysis: Core Group member, LINXS Fellow

Tomography Scientist, MAX IV Laboratory, Sweden.

Arash is a researcher specializing in advanced X-ray imaging and tomography, with a background in medical imaging, including micro-MRI and micro-CT. His research focuses on synchrotron-based imaging techniques, particularly phase-contrast imaging, multiscale tomography, and other cutting-edge methodologies that provide new insights into complex biological and biomaterial systems. He is actively involved in interdisciplinary collaborations spanning life sciences, medicine, and materials research. Currently, he is working on the development of a new tomography beamline at MAX IV, dedicated to biomedical and life science applications and designed to expand high-resolution imaging capabilities for the research community.