Stefano Marchesini, Ph. D. (contact)
Experimental System Group, 
Advanced Light Source, 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MS 2R0400, 1 Cyclotron Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94720-8199
Tel: +1-510-486-7735

Workshops New Computational Approaches for X-Ray Science, LBNL Oct 4th, 2011. COSMIC at the ALS: New Frontiers in Soft X-Ray Coherent Scattering and Imaging LBNL August 2-3, 2011 (nanosurveyor poster) Coherent X-Ray Scattering and Microscopy, Oct 14th, LBL 2008, program and slides

General Research Interests:
Image processing,  phase retrieval, x-ray optics, light sources,  condensed matter physics

Publications and proceedings
Papers (by date)

 Highlights (see also News and Presentations):

• The Brightest, Sharpest, Fastest X-Ray Holograms Yet (1 pager) (Press release) (Nature Phot. article, preprint). (Nature Photonics redifines its scope "to encompass this exciting field.")
• X-Ray Diffraction Looks Inside Aerogels in 3D (1 pager) (Feature story-LBNL) (PRL article, preprint) (Highlight in Science)
• Phase retrieval: ab initio solution without atomic resolution nor Nyquist sampling (1 pager) (preprint)(Nuit Blanche)
• Projection algorithms escape local minima (1 pager movie),  (RSI cover) (review article, preprint).
• Diffractive imaging with shrink-wrap algorithm (1 pager) (ALS highlight)  (DOE Highlight) (papers: 2D,3D, preprints 2D,3D).
• Lensless Imaging of Whole Biological Cells with Soft X-Rays, (press release) (PNAS paper, PRL paper, Nature highlight)
• Outrunning radiation damage by flash diffractive imaging (Nature phys. cover), (Feature stories: LLNL1, LLNL2)  (Nature Phys. article, preprint)
• Time delay holography study nanoparticle dynamics under intense radiation (LLNL press release) (Nature article).
• Snapshots of laser ablation dynamics  (LLNL press release) (Nature Phot. article).
• Single particle diffractive imaging (Pulse)(Nano lett. article)
• Jet-propelled Imaging for an Ultrafast Light Source (press release) (preprint, paper)
• Atomic holograms of single and quasi crystals (Physics Today, Phys. Rev. Focus, ESRF Highlight, Highlight2, ESRF News) (papers: PRL1,PRL2, Nature)

Links: arxiv, ADS Library, Nuit Blanche, X-ray Group Journal Club, Compressive sensing resources, Light Sources. cxidb


Previous Research Experience
02/2004-01/2007  Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
01/2003-01/2004  Postdoc,  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,  Livermore, CA
05/2000-09/2002  Postdoc,  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,    Berkeley,   CA
11/1996-01/2000 Engineer, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, Grenoble, France

Education
11/1996-01/2000, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France, Ph.D. (Physics, thesis, advisor: M. Belakhovsky)
09/1995-09/1996, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy, (Physics, graduate school)
09/1990-07/1995, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy, M.S. (Physics, thesis in italian, advisor: R. Coïsson)

Personal
Citizenship: Italian,       
Residence:  US
Languages: Italian, English, French