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.
Biomedical Imaging and X-ray Histology lead
Beamline Scientist / Senior µ-VIS Fellow
Dr Katsamenis' background is in bioengineering sciences, and he takes a leading role in the centre's collaborations with biologists and bioengineers.
Senior Research Fellow / Computational Engineering and Design group, FEPS
Phil's background is in Computer Science and is leading the development of the supporting computation workflows and hardware needed to enable the processing of the data acquired using X-Ray histology.
Dr Stephanie Robinson
Research fellow, µ-VIS
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.
Foundations for routine 3D X-ray histology (XRH) project team - (2018 -2022)
Professor Philipp Schneider (PI)
Fmr Director (Academic) & Academic Theme Leader μ-VIS,
Philipp Schneider is a Professor in Biomedical Imaging. He led the Wellcome Trust-funded Biomedical Resource and Technology Development project in Engineering and Medicine at UoS to establish the foundations for 3D X-ray histology (XRH) | www.xrayhistology.org
Dr Peter Lackie (co-I)
Visiting Fellow within Medicine at the University of Southampton
Fmr Academic Lead, Biomedical Imaging Unit (Ret)
Peter led and coordinated the biomedical aspects of the development of correlative 3D imaging, particularly of human lung. New approaches for the analysis and display of 3D lung datasets from µCT, light sheet microscopy, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy are being applied. At the time he was an Associate Professor in the School of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine.
Dr Anton Page (co-I)
Frm Director BIU / Non-Clinical Lecturer within Medicine (Ret)
At the time Anton was a lecturer, Clinical Scientist and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Unit, a joint University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS)/University of Southampton (UoS) facility for high quality/high resolution diagnostic and research microscopy
Professor Ian Sinclair (co-I)
Academic Theme Leader & Director at μ-VIS
As founding director of μ-VIS, serving all UoS Faculties, and offered as a national academic and industrial resource, Ian has been involved in all aspects of developing and setting up a shared facility.
Professor Simon Cox (co-I)
Professor of Computational Methods in FEPS
Simon's research focuses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science. He served as Universities Chief Information Officer responsible for University's IT systems, information and processes with a team of around 300 staff and is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing
Professor Gareth Thomas (co-I)
Chair of Experimental Pathology, UoS / Consultant Pathologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Gareth is a an oral and maxillofacial pathology expert and his research focuses on understanding how the different cells within a tumour interact to affect patient survival, and cancer spread.
Principal Scientist, µ-VIS
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).
Dr Elena Konstantinopoulou
Frm Research fellow, Faculty of Medicine
Elena is a biologist. At the time she focused on the biomedical aspects of 3D XRH imaging and 3D image data processing. She also worked on sample preparation protocols and workflow optimisation.
Dr Stephanie Robinson
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