3D X-ray Histology team is a highly dynamic and multidisciplinary team of scientist and engineers. Since 2023 the facility is led by Dr Orestis L. Katsamenis and the core team core includes Dr Phil Basford and Dr Stephanie Robinson.
The core team receives additional support from the entire μ-VIS team, as well as a diverse array of academics and imaging specialists. This collaborative effort includes contributors from the "Foundations for routine 3D X-ray Histology (XRH) project", the Biomedical Imaging Unit (BIU), and the Histochemistry Research Facility (HRF) teams.
Dr Jacob Trend
Research fellow
Dr Trend is a postdoctoral Research Fellow specialising in quantitative imaging, with particular expertise in X-ray computed microtomography (micro-CT) and correlative image analysis. Jacob has a background in bone microstructure and currently focuses on coral biomineralisation and developing reproducible workflows for segmentation and quantitative analysis, combining X-ray/CT with complementary imaging modalities.
Dr Bethany Harding
Beamline Scientist / µ-VIS Fellow
Dr Harding’s background is in Biomedical engineering and image processing. She works on supporting the commercial clients of the centre, particularly those who are new to CT as a means for non-destructive evaluation or failure investigation.
Dr Katie Dexter
Experimental Officer
Dr Dexter is part of the team BIU team, and runs the in vivo small animal imaging CT and optical imaging systems.
Dr Stephanie Robinson
Research fellow
Dr Robinson is a post-doctoral research fellow who works on 3D imaging and functional modelling of microlymphatic networks in both clinical and pre-clinical samples. Although her focus is on pulmonary networks, she also works on dermal and pancreatic lymphatic networks.
Dr Fernando Alvarez Borges
Beamline Scientist / µ-VIS Fellow
Dr Alvarez-Borges main research fields are Geotechnics and Geomechanics, and uses CT to study the interaction between building foundations and the soil and rock on which they are built. Dr Alvarez-Borges is also the NXCT liaison for the XRH team.
Dr Phil Basford
Beamline Scientist / µ-VIS Fellow
Dr Basford is a Computer Scientist and is leading the development of the supporting computation workflows and hardware needed to enable the processing of the data acquired using 3D X-ray Histology imaging and 3D image data processing.
Dr Orestis Katsamenis
Beamline Scientist / Biomedical Imaging and X-ray Histology Lead
Dr. Katsamenis has a background in bioengineering and is the Biomedical Imaging and X-ray Histology Lead at μ-VIS. He is in charge of the XRH facility and takes a leading role in the centre's collaborations with biologists and bioengineers.
Dr Richard Boardman
Principal Scientist
Dr Boardman's research interests lie in 3D image processing and manipulation. Additionally, he is interested in novel 3D reconstruction algorithms, particularly their implementation on massive-memory compute clusters (both CPU and GPU).