Daniele Pelliccia
Daniele Pelliccia is an experimental physicist and entrepreneur. He graduated in Physics with a Master Degree in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information. His PhD research has been on 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 become 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. A full list of his academic publications is available here.
David M. Paganin
David 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 Monash X-ray Imaging Group at the School of Physics and Astronomy. Highlights of his academic career include a 2006 single-author Oxford University Press book titled ‘Coherent X-ray Optics’, and the co-invention of several techniques in coherent imaging that are currently widely employed in the fields of x-ray synchrotron science, visible-light microscopy, and electron microscopy. A full list of his academic publications is available here.
Photo credit: Thankyou to Dominik John for the photograph of David Paganin.
