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Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Dimitry Tegunov
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
2
Shawn Zheng
University of California, San Francisco
3
Fabian Eisenstein
ETH Zurich
4
Zhengzhong Huang
Tsinghua University
5
YoonSeok Baek
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
6
Haozhi Sha
Tsinghua University
7
Jonathan Bouvette
Princeton University
8
Konstantin Willer
TUM Klinikum
9
Aleksandra Klimas
Magee-Womens Research Institute
10
Sebastian Tacke
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology

Rising Stars Papers

1
Quantitative phase imaging based on holography: trends and new perspectives
Light Science & Applications|2024
236 cit.
2
Smart parallel automated cryo-electron tomography
Nature Methods|2024
37 cit.
3
Polar vortex hidden in twisted bilayers of paraelectric SrTiO3
Nature Communications|2024
16 cit.
4
Three-dimensional holographic imaging of incoherent objects through scattering media
Nature Communications|2025
2 cit.
5
torch-projectors: A High-Performance Differentiable Projection Library for PyTorch
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
1 cit.
6
MissAlignment Teaches Itself Better Cryo-ET Tilt-Series Alignment by Making It Worse
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
1 cit.
7
Digital phase conjugation of spatially incoherent light in complex media
Unknown Journal|2024
0 cit.
8
Information limit of 15 picometers achieved with bright-field ptychography
Physical review. B./Physical review. B|2024
0 cit.
9
Quantification and assessment of Day-To-Day interfraction set-up errors in radiotherapy treatment delivery based on EPID detector
Polish Journal of Medical Physics And Engineering|2025
0 cit.
10
Self-Tuning Workflow for Automated Cryo-EM Data Collection in SmartScope
Microscopy and Microanalysis|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Alexis Rohou
Helix (United States)
2
Susannah R. Held
University of Colorado Boulder
3
Julia Mahamid
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
4
D. Zybin
Institute for Nuclear Research
5
Chengfei Guo
University of Connecticut
6
Fucai Zhang
Southern University of Science and Technology
7
Mustafa Mir
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
8
Yao-Lung L. Fang
Brookhaven National Laboratory
9
Maria Harkiolaki
University of Warwick
10
Mathew J. Cherukara
Argonne National Laboratory

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Quantum Long Short-Term Memory
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)|2022
219 cit.
2
Visualizing translation dynamics at atomic detail inside a bacterial cell
Nature|2022
196 cit.
3
Molecular mechanisms of stress-induced reactivation in mumps virus condensates
Cell|2023
67 cit.
4
AutoPhaseNN: unsupervised physics-aware deep learning of 3D nanoscale Bragg coherent diffraction imaging
npj Computational Materials|2022
63 cit.
5
Genetically encoded multimeric tags for subcellular protein localization in cryo-EM
Nature Methods|2023
60 cit.
6
Deep learning at the edge enables real-time streaming ptychographic imaging
Nature Communications|2023
59 cit.
7
Demonstration of an AI-driven workflow for autonomous high-resolution scanning microscopy
Nature Communications|2023
39 cit.
8
Depth-multiplexed ptychographic microscopy for high-throughput imaging of stacked bio-specimens on a chip
Biosensors and Bioelectronics|2022
33 cit.
9
Light and electron microscopy continuum-resolution imaging of 3D cell cultures
Developmental Cell|2023
31 cit.
10
Cryo-Electron Tomography of Reconstituted Biomolecular Condensates
Methods in molecular biology|2022
25 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Franz Pfeiffer
Technical University of Munich
2
Nikolaus Grigorieff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
3
Henry N. Chapman
Universität Hamburg
4
Christian Dávid
Paul Scherrer Institute
5
Tetsuya Ishikawa
Naruto University of Education
6
Chris Jacobsen
Argonne National Laboratory
7
János Hajdu
University of Cologne
8
Dietmar Stalke
University of Göttingen
9
Marco Stampanoni
Paul Scherrer Institute
10
M.V. Yurkov
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
CTFFIND4: Fast and accurate defocus estimation from electron micrographs
Journal of Structural Biology|2015
5.6k cit.
2
Comparison of silver and molybdenum microfocus X-ray sources for single-crystal structure determination
Journal of Applied Crystallography|2014
4.8k cit.
3
Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography
Nature|2011
2.1k cit.
4
Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses
Nature|2000
2k cit.
5
Phase retrieval and differential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance X-ray sources
Nature Physics|2006
1.9k cit.
6
A compact X-ray free-electron laser emitting in the sub-ångström region
Nature Photonics|2012
1.8k cit.
7
Accurate determination of local defocus and specimen tilt in electron microscopy
Journal of Structural Biology|2003
1.4k cit.
8
High-Resolution Scanning X-ray Diffraction Microscopy
Science|2008
1.3k cit.
9
Crystal handling at low temperatures
Journal of Applied Crystallography|1993
1.2k cit.
10
Hard-X-ray dark-field imaging using a grating interferometer
Nature Materials|2008
1.1k cit.

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