Biography
I grew up in Burlington, Vermont (USA) and studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley. I received my M.Sc. in physics from ETH Zürich in 2018. In 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in physics at the University of Basel [1]. After that, I continued to work at the Biomaterials Science Center at the University of Basel as a Post Doc, where I further developed large-volume neuroimaging with X-ray microtomography [2,3] and characterized novel X-ray optics [4]. In 2023 I joined the neurotherapeutics start-up Bottneuro AG as a Computational Scientist where I built tools to personalize non-invasive brain stimulation [5]. I returned to the world of synchrotron radiation and X-ray microtomography in 2025 by joining the X-ray Tomography Group at PSI as a Post Doc.
Scientific Research
I am currently working on characterizing the transmission of sound through the human middle ear using dynamic phase-contrast microtomography as part of the VISION-EAR project. Specifically, I am developing the dynamic imaging setup at the TOMCAT beamline and optimizing registration and segmentation pipelines to detect micromovements in the ossicular chain from TB-scale 4D microtomography datasets.
Publications
A complete list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar or ORCID.
References
[1] G. Rodgers, Hard X-ray microtomography for virtual histology of the brain with cellular resolution, Ph.D. Thesis in Physics, University of Basel, 2021. (DOI: 10.5451/unibas-ep85651)
[2] G. Rodgers, C. Bikis, P. Janz, C. Tanner, G. Schulz, P. Thalmann, C. A. Haas, B. Müller, 3D X-ray histology for the investigation of temporal lobe epilepsy in a mouse model, Microscopy and Microanalysis 29(5) (2023) 1730-1745. (DOI: 10.1093/micmic/ozad082)
[3] M. Humbel, C. Tanner, M. Girona Alarcón, G. Schulz, T. Weitkamp, M. Scheel, V. Kurtcuoglu, B. Müller, G. Rodgers, Synchrotron radiation-based tomography of an entire mouse brain with sub-micron voxels: augmenting interactive brain atlases with terabyte data, Advanced Science 2416879 (2025). (DOI: 10.1002/advs.202416879)
[4] U. T. Sanli, G. Rodgers, M-C Zdora, P. Qi, J. Garrevoet, K. V. Falch, B. Müller, C. David, J Vila-Comamala, Apochromatic X-ray focusing, Light: Science & Applications 12, 107 (2023). (DOI: 10.1038/s41377-023-01157-8)
[5] G. Rodgers, M. Joodaki, A. Hopf, E. Santarnecchi, R. Guzman, B. Müller, B. Osmani, Increasing target engagement via customized electrode positioning for personalized transcranial electrical stimulation: a biophysical modeling study, NeuroImage 311 (2025) 121206. (DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121206)