Manuel Guizar-Sicairos is an Associate Professor of Physics in the School of Basic Sciences (SB), Institute of Physics (IPHYS), EPF Lausanne and head of the Computational X-ray Imaging group in PSI. His research is focused on developing methods and algorithms for computational imaging, in particular for large-scale synchrotron X-ray sources. For example for phase retrieval, X-ray coherent diffractive imaging, holography, ptychography, nanotomography, and scanning small angle X-ray scattering (sSAXS).
He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics Engineering in 2002 and M.Sc. in Electronic Systems in 2005 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. M.Sc. in Optics in 2008 and Ph.D. in Optics in 2010 from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester in NY. He strongly believes in, and supports, diversity and inclusion in research. Since 2022 he is a confidential advisor for the Respect@PSI campaign.
His expertise encompasses experimental design, new imaging configurations or strategies, and devising novel reconstruction algorithms. In particular he has co-developed 3D nanoscale imaging using ptychography, magnetization vector nanotomography, small-angle scattering tensor tomography (SASTT), and leveraging sparsity for hyperspectral and dynamic nanotomography. Applications of these techniques range from imaging of the brain at synaptic resolution, bone, catalysts, and 3D operando batteries.
Manuel has been twice co-recipient of the Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation for 2014 and 2020. For his career-long contributions to the field he was awarded the prestigious 2019 ICO Prize by the International Commission for Optics and was elected as an Optica Fellow in 2021 and SPIE Fellow in 2022.
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