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Tom Vettenburg joined the University of Dundee in 2018. His research is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship award on computational microscopy. The aim of his research is to develop novel optical microscopy technologies that image deeper into scattering materials such as biological tissue. Scattering prevents precise control of light for optical manipulation and imaging. Tom’s research interests in this area started with his PhD. In 2011 he completed his PhD on hybrid optical-digital imaging systems at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. As a postdoctoral research fellow, he joined the Optical Manipulation group of Professor K. Dholakia at the University of St Andrews, where he demonstrated that many of the hybrid imaging principles translated particularly well to the microcopy scale. After receiving a Marie Curie Fellowship, he continued this line of work at the UC3M in Madrid, CAS GIBH in Guangzhou, MIT in Cambridge, and the University of Exeter, Tom returned to the Scotland to extend the reach of microscopy.
Research
Tom's main research interests are computational imaging and microscopy. Innovation in this area finds immediate applications in bio-medical research, which often operates right at the limit of current technology. Although modern cameras and microscopes are digital, image processing and analysis is typically only considered as an afterthought. By blurring the boundary between the hardware and the software, many artificial constraints can be removed, and seemingly ‘fundamental’ limits can be overcome. Naturally, the research in his lab is multi-disciplinary. While at home in physics, they often cross over into applied mathematics and computing, while working closely with the life sciences.
Main research interests
- novel hybrid optical-digital imaging methods
- computational microscopy
- light scattering in complex media
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