Dr. Federica Marone Welford

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Beamline Scientist

Paul Scherrer Institute
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Suisse
Téléphone
+41 56 310 53 18

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.

Currently Federica Marone explores, also in the context of the SLS2.0 upgrade project, the possibility to gain, in addition to the microstructure, information on the elemental distribution in a rapid manner.

In terms of applications, she collaborates with researchers and industrial partners worldwide especially on topics related to paleontology, earth sciences and energy research (batteries and fuel cells).

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.
 

Methodology

  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI

Applications

  • 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. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201903216
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI