Roberto Triolo is full Professor at the University of Palermo, Italy for more than
30 years. He is very active in the field of neutron and X-ray scattering concerning
mostly soft matters, polymers and cultural heritage. Among his many published works,
the study of dynamical and structural properties of block copolymers in supercritical
carbon dioxide lead in 1997 to the Green Chemistry Presidential Award. His later activities
were focused on the application of neutron techniques to archaeological artifacts.
Graziella Giambona has achieved her PhD in chemistry in 2011 and her final thesis
work was on neutron tomography on archaeological samples. Her investigation were focused
on objects belonging to roman shipwrecks mainly from the Mediterranean area. Another
area of research is the investigation of structural modifications of treated wood
with neutron and X-ray tomography.
Dr. Fabrizio Lo Celso is currently a faculty staff member at Physics and Chemistry
department at University of Palermo, Italy. He has finished his PhD in chemistry at
University of Palermo in 1998, and his final work was on a computational approach
to study equilibrium properties of molten salts mixtures. During his post-doc periods
in Missouri (USA), Palermo (Italy) and Jülich (Germany), he has focused his attention
on various scattering techniques involving both neutron and X-ray technology. Among
his current interest there is the molecular dynamics on ionic liquids and polymers.
Dr. rer. nat. Nikolay Kardjilov is responsible for the neutron tomography instrument
CONRAD at HZB Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, Germany. He studied
physics at Sofia University, Bulgaria, where he received his MSc degree. Thereafter,
he successfully completed his PhD work in the field of neutron tomography at the department
of physical science at TU Munich. In 2003 he started working at HZB, where he set
up a new neutron tomography instrument. His research topics are the development and
application of radiographic and tomographic techniques with neutrons.
Dr. Ing. André Hilger is currently responsible for the technical development of neutron
tomography at HZB. As PhD student he worked on the research topic “Tomography with
spin-polarised neutrons He studied technical physics at the University of Applied
Science (TFH) Berlin, Germany. After receiving his bachelor degree he worked as a
technician between 2001 and 2006 at HZB as well as at TFH. In 2006 he obtained his
MSc degree at TFH.
Dipl.-Phys. Andreas Paulke studied physics at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
He worked several years on the application of X-ray tomography on various fields and
on the analysis of 3D data.
Dr. rer. nat. Ingo Manke is head of the imaging group at Helmholtz Centre Berlin,
Germany. He studied physics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He finished
his PhD at TU Berlin, Germany in 2002 in the field of scanning nearfield microscopy.
Afterwards he worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration.
Since 2003 he has worked at HZB with research interests in the development and application
of radiographic and tomographic techniques with neutron and X-ray technology.