Francesco De Carlo

Education and Training

• 1995 Ph.D. University of Trieste, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Faculty of Electronic Engineering Ph.D. in Material Science with a dissertation on Si micromachining and deep X-ray Lithography
• 1991 Laurea University of Trieste, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Department of Electronic Engineering Grade: 110/110 Magna Cum Laude
• 1984 Diploma di Maturità Scientific Gymnasium Gorizia, Italy Grade: 60/60

Research

Francesco De Carlo is the Group Leader of the X-ray Imaging Group at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. He established and continue to actively advance full field X-ray tomography at the APS, his key interests are in hard X-ray tomography with a focus on instrument and computational method development as well as in the 3D characterization of materials in-situ and operando conditions. He is actively involved in hardware and numerical methods development related to synchrotron-based X-ray micro-tomography, and has developed and optimized instrumentation for material science applications of X-ray micro-tomography. He has led the development of innovative scientific software tools for tomographic reconstruction, volumetric data reduction and analysis. In collaborative studies, he has applied this exciting technology to numerous experiments across different fields.

Professional Experiences

• 2009--present Group Leader X-ray Imaging Group, Advanced Photon Source Lemont, IL, USA 
• 1998--2009 Staff Scientist and PI of the X-ray micro-tomography program X-ray Microscopy and Imaging Group, Advanced Photon Source Lemont, IL, USA
• 1996--1998 Postdoctoral Fellow X-ray Microscopy Group, Advanced Photon Source Lemont, IL, USA
• 1995--1996 Postdoctoral Fellow Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn Bonn, German
• 1994 Visiting Scholar Micro Mechanical Laboratories, University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands