Education/Academic Career:

2016 - Present Senior University Lecturer, Department for Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University

2012 - 2016AssociateSenior University Lecturer, Department for Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University
2009 - 2013 Post doc, Physics department E17, Technical University Munich
2009 - Present Post doc, Physics department E17, Technical University Munich
2009 - PhD, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2006 - Master of Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2004 - Bachelor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Research expertise and fields:
-  X-ray phase contrast and dark-field imaging using grating interferometer
- Soft tissue biomedical imaging
- Micro-CT imaging using synchrotron radiation and x-ray tubes

Honours:
December 2005. Carlsbergs Mindelegat for Brygger I.C. Jacobsen, Scholarship

Selected publications:
-- Peruzzi N, Galli S, Helmholz H, Kardjilov N, Krüger D, Markötter H, Moosmann J, Orlov D, Prgomet Z, Willumeit-Römer R, Wennerberg A & Bech M. Multimodal ex vivo methods reveal that Gd-rich corrosion byproducts remain at the implant site of biodegradable Mg-Gd screws. Acta biomaterialia, 136, 582-591 (2021)

- Andersson M, Kjer HM, Rafael-Patino J, Pacureanu A, Pakkenberg B, Thiran JP, Ptito M, Bech M, Bjorholm Dahl A, Andersen Dahl V, Dyrby TB. Axon morphology is modulated by the local environment and impacts the noninvasive investigation of its structure–function relationship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(52):33649-59 (2020)

- Dahlin LB, Rix KR, Dahl VA, Dahl AB, Jensen JN, Cloetens P, Pacureanu A, Mohseni S, Thomsen NO, Bech M. Three-dimensional architecture of human diabetic peripheral nerves revealed by X-ray phase contrast holographic nanotomography. Scientific reports. 10(1):1-8 (2020) Pfeiffer F, Bech M, Bunk O, Kraft P, Eikenberry E.F, Brönnimann Ch, Grünzweig C, David C. Hard-X-ray dark-field imaging using a grating interferometer. Nature Materials, 7(2) 134-137 (2008)
- Bech M, Bunk O, David C, Ruth R, Rifkin J, Loewen R, Feidenhans’l R and Pfeiffer F. Hard X-ray phase-contrast imaging with the Compact Light Source based on inverse Compton X-rays. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 16, 43–47 (2009)
- Bech M, Jensen T.H, Feidenhans’l R, Bunk O, David C and Pfeiffer F. Soft-Tissue Phase-Contrast Tomography with X-Ray Tube Sources. Physics in Medicine and Biology 54, 2747–2753 (2009)