News
Congratulations to Marco Stampanoni on his appointment as Head of CPS
The TOMCAT Team warmly congratulates Marco Stampanoni on his appointment as Head of the PSI Center for Photon Science (CPS), effective 1 December 2026. He will succeed Gabriel Aeppli, who has led CPS since 2014.
Brand new I-TOMCAT beamline comes to life
Marking another milestone in the TOMCAT 2.0 upgrade project, I-TOMCAT — our newly built beamline — received its first X-ray light on September 25, 2025.
S-TOMCAT beamline receives first X-ray light
On June 25th 2025, the S-TOMCAT beamline shutters were opened to receive first X-ray light from the new SLS 2.0 storage ring.
Jisoo Kim receives PSI Thesis Medal 2023
Jisoo Kim receives the PSI Thesis Medal 2023. With this award, PSI recognises outstanding PhD theses, achieving a high degree of innovation and potentially leading to scientific breakthroughs. Jisoo holds a Master of Science from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science &Technology and defended his thesis entitled “Towards time-resolved X-ray scattering tensor tomography” at ETH Zürich.
Scientific Highlights
Virtual tissue staining in 3-D
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed an AI platform that stains grey micro-CT data like the results of classical histology. This could in the future enable analysis of tissues in three dimensions instead of just thin microscopic sections.
Big heart, acute senses key to explosive radiation of early fishes
X-rays of a 400-million-year-old fossil illuminate a key moment in our deep evolutionary past.
X-rays reveal fossil stealth technology
PSI imaging helps to uncover the hunting strategy of a prehistoric predator.
Zinc detected in clogged syringes
With the help of researchers at PSI, ANAXAM has been investigating, on behalf of the pharmaceutical company MSD, whether zinc may contribute to clogging of pre-filled syringes.