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Summary#

9+ years of research experience focusing on advanced microscopy methods and software development. I have been involved in highly interdisciplinary teams, and service provision within the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. I enjoy developing software for image processing, hardware control, and data analytics/visualization.

Professional Experience#

SCIENTIFIC OFFICER | UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG – CENTRE FOR CELLULAR IMAGING | December 2018 – present

Support and training of users for light microscopy.
- Project meetings, and consultation.
- Emphasis on super-resolution methods, such as Structured Illumination Microscopy, Single Molecule Localization Microscopy and, Airyscan.
Coordination of Correlative Array Tomography CAT projects within SciLifeLab
- Scanning Electron Microscopy, and CLEM.
Image processing support quantification and hardware control
- Automation and smart-microscopy
- Machine learning and statistical analysis
- Image J/FIJI, Napari, Python, and MATLAB.
- Short consultation and longer projects.
Establishing collaborations for the development of novel microscopy methods and workflows at the facility.
Maintenance of microscopy infrastructure.
Teaching/organization of workshops and Ph.D. courses: Light Microscopy and Image Analysis.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER | KU LEUVEN | November 2014 – November 2018

Design & development of a microscope for 3D super-resolution imaging:
- CAD-based design and automated hardware control (Java -µmanager).
Study of bacterial survival and death by antibiotics.
- Image segmentation, shape descriptors, and machine learning for discrimination and classification (MATLAB).
Simulations of physical systems.
- Light absorption and energy transfer. Monte Carlo based methods.
- Synthetic image generation – fluorescence images, EMCCD, scCMOS.
Development of software tools for: Next-generation DNA sequencing, single molecule detection/tracking, intensity traces – change point detection, and super-resolution imaging.
Project management and supervision of bachelor, master, and Ph.D. students.
Instructor and organizer of a programming course for young researchers.
Successful grants: 3-year postdoctoral fellowship (Research Foundation Flanders); 1-year fellowship (Internal funds KU Leuven).