ToScA - Speakers

New X-ray Technologies and Future Advances
"X-ray Tomography for the Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source"

Dr Liz Duke, Diamond Light Source

Liz has a degree in physics from the University of Birmingham and a D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford in which she focussed on the on the use of Laue crystallography for time resolved macromolecular crystallography. On completing her D.Phil she took up a post doc positio...

Liz has a degree in physics from the University of Birmingham and a D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford in which she focussed on the on the use of Laue crystallography for time resolved macromolecular crystallography. On completing her D.Phil she took up a post doc position at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire to work on the development of multiwavelength anomalous dispersion (MAD) techniques for macromolecular crystallography (MX). She remained at the SRS, becoming a beamline scientist and then a senior beamline scientist building a number of beamlines and spearheading many technical developments including the implementation of the first graphical user interface for MX data collection, establishing data collection with CCD’s and starting a project to automate the beamlines before the bright light of the Diamond project lured her south and back to Oxfordshire. At Diamond Light Source Liz built the three MX beamlines that formed the life science component of Phase 1 of the construction project. Following their completion Liz had a carpe diem moment and grabbed the opportunity to develop a beamline for the emerging technique of cryo soft X-ray microscopy for biology – a project which involved designing and building the beamline in parallel with developing sample preparation, data collection and analysis protocols. Having recently handed over the reins of that beamline to others Liz is now exploring the possibilities for using hard X-rays in the study of soft biological tissue.

Cultural Heritage
"Spinning coins and sliced wood. The application of CT-scanning for heritage objects. "

Angela Middleton, Historic England

Angela Middleton holds a degree in archaeological conservation from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and an MSc in Maritime Conservation Science from the University of Portsmouth. She has worked for the Newport Medieval Ship Project and the Michael Faraday Museum of the Royal Instituti...

Angela Middleton holds a degree in archaeological conservation from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and an MSc in Maritime Conservation Science from the University of Portsmouth. She has worked for the Newport Medieval Ship Project and the Michael Faraday Museum of the Royal Institution before joining Historic England as an Archaeological Conservator in 2007. Here she is responsible to advise on and undertake research and investigative conservation on material retrieved from land and marine sites. She has a special interest in the conservation of waterlogged organic materials. She has been working on material recovered from England’s protected wreck sites, most notably the London and the Rooswijk. Angela is a great advocate for conservation and always tries to raise the profile of the profession. This is reflected in various blogs she has written, as well serving on various committees, such as the ICON Archaeology Group, the Archaeological Leather Group and ICOMOS Wood Committee. To find out more, follow her on twitter (@AngyMiddleton) or read some of her blogs. https://heritagecalling.com/2018/03/16/how-to-do-archaeological-conservation/ https://heritagecalling.com/2015/08/13/6-fascinating-finds-from-the-london-wreck-1665/ https://thewreckoftheweek.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/no-83-the-london-no-3-a-conservators-tool-kit/ https://thewreckoftheweek.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/the-stirling-castle/

Manufacturing and Industry

Dr Tim Barden, Rolls Royce

Quantification and Data
"Measurements from Medical and Microfocus CT for Biomechanical Analysis"

Dr Alex Dickinson, University of Southampton

Alex Dickinson (MEng, PhD, CEng) is a mechanical engineer with 15 years’ experience in biomedical engineering. He started work in industry at Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd. in orthopaedic implant R&D. At the University of Southampton he lectures in engineering design and computing, and holds an RAEng...

Alex Dickinson (MEng, PhD, CEng) is a mechanical engineer with 15 years’ experience in biomedical engineering. He started work in industry at Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd. in orthopaedic implant R&D. At the University of Southampton he lectures in engineering design and computing, and holds an RAEng Research Fellowship entitled ‘Developing, Testing and Fitting the Next Generation of Prosthetic Limbs’ (RF/130). He is most motivated by multidisciplinary work with clinicians, health scientists and industry, aiming to deliver research that is relevant to service users, and technologies which are fit-for-purpose. He leads EPSRC/NIHR Global Challenges Research Fund project ‘A Step Change in LMIC Prosthetics Provision through Computer Aided Design, Actimetry and Database Technologies’ (EP/R014213/1) with partners in Cambodia, Belfast Salford and Southampton.

Cultural Heritage, Outreach and Public Engagement
"Stories from Bones: integrating bioengineering with archaeology using µCT"

Dr Sonia Zakrzewski, University of Southampton

Sonia Zakrzewski is an associate professor of Archaeology. She is a bioarchaeologist, focussing on the archaeological study of human identity. Her research interests focus on human bodily variability and its archaeological recognition, through analysis of race, migration and mobility, diet, disease,...

Sonia Zakrzewski is an associate professor of Archaeology. She is a bioarchaeologist, focussing on the archaeological study of human identity. Her research interests focus on human bodily variability and its archaeological recognition, through analysis of race, migration and mobility, diet, disease, religious practice and social organisation in past populations. Her interest in dis/Ability started when her second (and now completely healthy) child was diagnosed with a serious congenital heart disorder and this led her to question how past populations had considered ‘ill’ or disabled individuals. A passionate believer in outreach and public engagement, she has led Archaeology’s contribution to the Science and Engineering Festival and the Festival of British Archaeology in Southampton. She is always on the look-out for new ways to spread her love of archaeology/anthropology and use of the archaeological imagination to new audiences!

Manufacturing and Industry
"X-ray tomography for advancement of laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing"

Prof Anton du Plessis, Stellenbosch University

Prof Anton du Plessis is Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Physics Department) and manages an interdisciplinary research center for X-ray micro computed tomography – the Stellenbosch CT facility. He completed his PhD (2005) in Laser Physics at Stellenbosch Universit...

Prof Anton du Plessis is Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Physics Department) and manages an interdisciplinary research center for X-ray micro computed tomography – the Stellenbosch CT facility. He completed his PhD (2005) in Laser Physics at Stellenbosch University, followed by a permanent research position at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, a South African government-funded research institute based in Pretoria, South Africa (2006-2012). In 2012 he moved back to Stellenbosch University to manage the (then) newly-established Stellenbosch CT facility, an open access laboratory for materials science. His research interests are in Additive Manufacturing, X-ray Tomography and Biomimicry. He works on quality control and improvement particularly in metal laser powder bed fusion, and currently works on studies of lattice structures through a funded project of the South African Collaborative Program in Additive Manufacturing (CPAM). He is a management committee member of the Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA) and hosts a specialist track “Biomimetic engineering for additive manufacturing” at the 2019 RAPDASA conference. He collaborates widely, has published 94 journal articles and one book chapter. His research webpage is found here: http://blogs.sun.ac.za/duplessis/.

Materials Science
"In-situ methods for characterization of damage processes in materials"

Prof Markus Sause, University of Augsburg

The focus of his research is the material behavior of hybrid fiber reinforced composites, the development of test methods for material characterization as well as modelling and data analysis. This ranges from the determination of micromechanical properties to the improvement of mechanical testing co...

The focus of his research is the material behavior of hybrid fiber reinforced composites, the development of test methods for material characterization as well as modelling and data analysis. This ranges from the determination of micromechanical properties to the improvement of mechanical testing concepts at component level. A special focus is the application of in situ test methods for the study of damage pro-gress. This ranges from the use of classical testing methods such as X-ray computed tomography, acoustic emission analysis and guided waves to specialized methods such as electromagnetic emission. Parallel to experimental approaches, multiscale and multiphysics modelling is used to model the principle of the test methods. Prof. Dr. Markus Sause has authored more than 120 scientific publications among them two monographs and several book chapters. Since 2017, he is Chairman of the Acoustic Emission Test Procedures Committee of the DGZfP and is a member of the Executive Board of the European Working Group on Acoustic Emission (EWGAE). He is also member of DPG, DGM and VDI.