Biography
Federica Marone is Beamline Scientist at the TOMCAT beamline at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She holds an Earth Sciences degree with specialisation in seismology and a PhD in seismology dedicated to seismic tomography both from the ETH Zurich. After a 3-year Postdoctoral stay at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, where she studied the Earth mantle dynamics through the seismic anisotropy signature, in 2006 Federica Marone moved to PSI to join the X-ray Tomography group.
Scientific Research
Federica Marone’s scientific research focuses on the development of innovative algorithms to best complement the latest hardware and methodological developments at the TOMCAT beamline, driven by the goal of enabling new science in different fields. She works on aspects related to tomographic reconstructions (analytic and iterative approaches) and mitigation of artifacts as well as on the optimized integration of new software in the beamline framework.
Recently, Federica Marone has also been addressing challenges posed by the large amount of data produced at the TOMCAT beamline for instance during time resolved experiments. She has been involved in the assessment of possible data compression concepts for tomographic microscopy data, the optimization of the available computational infrastructure use and the realization of a real-time reconstruction system enabling direct feedback between the microscopic evolution of a sample and the on-going experiment.
From the technique point of view, Federica Marone is involved in work pushing the time resolution of X-ray scattering tensor tomography and she explores the possibility to gain, in addition to the microstructure, information on the elemental distribution in a rapid manner.
Currently Federica Marone is also focussing on the SLS2.0 upgrade project, and in particular on the design of the new I-TOMCAT beamline.
In terms of applications, she collaborates with researchers and industrial partners worldwide especially on topics related to paleontology, earth sciences, additive manufacturing and energy research (batteries and fuel cells).
Federica Marone teaches at the ETH Zurich in the field of X-ray imaging and she regularly serves as external co-referent for PhD examinations in Switzerland and abroad.
Publication Overview
For an extensive overview, we kindly refer you to our online publication repository DORA.
An up-to-date and complete publication list can also be found at http://www.researcherid.com/rid/J-4420-2013.
Selected Publications
Methodology
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Kim J, Pelt DM, Kagias M, Stampanoni M, Batenburg KJ, Marone F
Tomographic reconstruction of the small-angle x-ray scattering tensor with filtered back projection
Physical Review Applied. 2022; 18(1): 014043 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.014043
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Kim J, Slyamov A, Lauridsen E, Birkbak M, Ramos T, Marone F, et al.
Macroscopic mapping of microscale fibers in freeform injection molded fiber-reinforced composites using X-ray scattering tensor tomography
Composites Part B: Engineering. 2022; 233: 109634 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2022.109634
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Bührer M, Xu H, Hendriksen AA, Büchi FN, Eller J, Stampanoni M, et al.
Deep learning based classification of dynamic processes in time-resolved X-ray tomographic microscopy
Scientific Reports. 2021; 11(1): 24174 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03546-8
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Kim J, Kagias M, Marone F, Shi Z, Stampanoni M
Fast acquisition protocol for X-ray scattering tensor tomography
Scientific Reports. 2021; 11(1): 23046 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02467-w
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Bührer M, Xu H, Eller J, Sijbers J, Stampanoni M, Marone F
Unveiling water dynamics in fuel cells from time-resolved tomographic microscopy data
Scientific Reports. 2020; 10(1): 16388 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73036-w
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Marone F, Vogel J, Stampanoni M
Impact of lossy compression of X-ray projections onto reconstructed tomographic slices
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2020; 27: 1326-1338. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577520007353
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Marone F, Schlepütz CM, Marti S, Fusseis F, Velásquez-Parra A, Griffa M, et al.
Time resolved in situ X-ray tomographic microscopy unraveling dynamic processes in geologic systems
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2020; 7: 346 (20 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00346
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Kim J, Kagias M, Marone F, Stampanoni M
X-ray scattering tensor tomography with circular gratings
Applied Physics Letters. 2020; 116(13): 134102 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5145361
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Buurlage J-W, Marone F, Pelt DM, Palenstijn WJ, Stampanoni M, Batenburg KJ, et al.
Real-time reconstruction and visualisation towards dynamic feedback control during time-resolved tomography experiments at TOMCAT
Scientific Reports. 2019; 9(1): 18379 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54647-4
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Bührer M, Stampanoni M, Rochet X, Büchi F, Eller J, Marone F
High-numerical-aperture macroscope optics for time-resolved experiments
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2019; 26: 1161-1172. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519004119
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Arcadu F, Marone F, Stampanoni M
Fast iterative reconstruction of data in full interior tomography
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2017; 24(1): 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577516015794
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Marone F, Studer A, Billich H, Sala L, Stampanoni M
Towards on-the-fly data post-processing for real-time tomographic imaging at TOMCAT
Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging. 2017; 3(1): 1 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40679-016-0035-9
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Arcadu F, Nilchian M, Studer A, Stampanoni M, Marone F
A forward regridding method with minimal oversampling for accurate and efficient iterative tomographic algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2016; 25(3): 1207-1218. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2016.2516945
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Arcadu F, Stampanoni M, Marone F
Fast gridding projectors for analytical and iterative tomographic reconstruction of differential phase contrast data
Optics Express. 2016; 24(13): 14748-14764. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.014748
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Applications
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Vanpeene V, Huet L, Villanova J, Olbinado M, Marone F, Maire E, et al.
Deciphering the benefits of coordinated binders in Si-based anodes by combined operando/in situ and ex situ X-Ray micro- and nano-tomographies
Advanced Energy Materials. 2025; 15(6): 2403741 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202403741
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Auenhammer RM, Kim J, Oddy C, Mikkelsen LP, Marone F, Stampanoni M, et al.
X-ray scattering tensor tomography based finite element modelling of heterogeneous materials
npj Computational Materials. 2024; 10: 50 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-024-01234-5
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Yang J, Schlenger LM, Nasab MH, Van Petegem S, Marone F, Logé RE, et al.
Experimental quantification of inward Marangoni convection and its impact on keyhole threshold in laser powder bed fusion of stainless steel
Additive Manufacturing. 2024; 84: 104092 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2024.104092
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Newham E, Corfe IJ, Brewer P, Bright JA, Fernandez V, Gostling NJ, et al.
The origins of mammal growth patterns during the Jurassic mammalian radiation
Science Advances. 2024; 10(32): eado4555 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado4555
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de Formanoir C, Hamidi Nasab M, Schlenger L, Van Petegem S, Masinelli G, Marone F, et al.
Healing of keyhole porosity by means of defocused laser beam remelting: Operando observation by X-ray imaging and acoustic emission-based detection
Additive Manufacturing. 2024; 79: 103880 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2023.103880
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Hamidi Nasab M, Masinelli G, de Formanoir C, Schlenger L, Van Petegem S, Esmaeilzadeh R, et al.
Harmonizing sound and light: X-ray imaging unveils acoustic signatures of stochastic inter-regime instabilities during laser melting
Nature Communications. 2023; 14: 8008 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43371-3
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Sadd M, Xiong S, Bowen JR, Marone F, Matic A
Investigating microstructure evolution of lithium metal during plating and stripping via operando X-ray tomographic microscopy
Nature Communications. 2023; 14: 854 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36568-z
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Liu Y, Carlisle E, Zhang H, Yang B, Steiner M, Shao T, et al.
Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome
Nature. 2022; 609: 541-546. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05107-z
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Pandiyan V, Masinelli G, Claire N, Le-Quang T, Hamidi-Nasab M, de Formanoir C, et al.
Deep learning-based monitoring of laser powder bed fusion process on variable time-scales using heterogeneous sensing and operando X-ray radiography guidance
Additive Manufacturing. 2022; 58: 103007 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103007
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Koszelow D, Molin S, Karczewski J, Marone F, Makowska M
Morphology changes in Fe-Cr porous alloys upon high-temperature oxidation quantified by X-ray tomographic microscopy
Materials and Design. 2022; 215: 110492 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110492
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Ghasemi-Tabasi H, de Formanoir C, Van Petegem S, Jhabvala J, Hocine S, Boillat E, et al.
Direct observation of crack formation mechanisms with operando laser powder bed fusion X-ray imaging
Additive Manufacturing. 2022; 51: 102619 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.102619
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Csoklich C, Steim R, Marone F, Schmidt TJ, Büchi FN
Gas diffusion layers with deterministic structure for high performance polymer electrolyte fuel cells
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 2021; 13(8): 9908-9918. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c20896
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Rücklin M, King B, Cunningham JA, Johanson Z, Marone F, Donoghue PCJ
Acanthodian dental development and the origin of gnathostome dentitions
Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2021; 5: 919-926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01458-4
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Sabharwal M, Büchi FN, Nagashima S, Marone F, Eller J
Investigation of the transient freeze start behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cells
Journal of Power Sources. 2021; 489: 229447 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.229447
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Xu H, Nagashima S, Nguyen HP, Kishita K, Marone F, Büchi FN, et al.
Temperature dependent water transport mechanism in gas diffusion layers revealed by subsecond operando X-ray tomographic microscopy
Journal of Power Sources. 2021; 490: 229492 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.229492
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Schuler T, Ciccone JM, Krentscher B, Marone F, Peter C, Schmidt TJ, et al.
Hierarchically structured porous transport layers for polymer electrolyte water electrolysis
Advanced Energy Materials. 2020; 10(2): 1903216 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201903216
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Wu X, Billaud J, Jerjen I, Marone F, Ishihara Y, Adachi M, et al.
Operando visualization of morphological dynamics in all‐solid‐state batteries
Advanced Energy Materials. 2019; 9(34): 1901547 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201901547
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Nagai Y, Eller J, Hatanaka T, Yamaguchi S, Kato S, Kato A, et al.
Improving water management in fuel cells through microporous layer modifications: fast operando tomographic imaging of liquid water
Journal of Power Sources. 2019; 435: 226809 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.226809
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Yin Z, Vargas K, Cunningham J, Bengtson S, Zhu M, Marone F, et al.
The early ediacaran Caveasphaera foreshadows the evolutionary origin of animal-like embryology
Current Biology. 2019; 29(24): 4307-4314.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.057
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Lindgren J, Sjövall P, Thiel V, Zheng W, Ito S, Wakamatsu K, et al.
Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur
Nature. 2018; 564(7736): 359-365. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0775-x
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Bengtson S, Rasmussen B, Ivarsson M, Muhling J, Broman C, Marone F, et al.
Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt
Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2017; 1(6): 0141 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0141
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Nowack L, Grolimund D, Samson V, Marone F, Wood V
Rapid mapping of lithiation dynamics in transition metal oxide particles with operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Scientific Reports. 2016; 6: 21479 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21479
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Pietsch P, Westhoff D, Feinauer J, Eller J, Marone F, Stampanoni M, et al.
Quantifying microstructural dynamics and electrochemical activity of graphite and silicon-graphite lithium ion battery anodes
Nature Communications. 2016; 7: 12909 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12909
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