Dr. Federica Marone Welford

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Beamline Scientist

Paul Scherrer Institut
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Schweiz

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.

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.

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

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

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