Head and Adjunct Staff Members

Professor David Sampson [Further details] +61 8 6488 7112 david.sampson@uwa.edu.au I have a background in photonics and in my research I seek to make a difference in biomedicine. I am interested in all facets of biophotonics, biomedical optics and biological microscopy, as well as broadly interested in biomedical engineering and biophysics. I undertake research across the spectrum from basic/strategic research in tissue optics and biomedical optics to clinical and translational research in medicine. This medical and biological focus means that I work in teams with a wide range of people from other disciplines, which is great fun, and means there is always so much new to learn. Along the way, we need to build the optics, mechanics, electronics and software systems for new instruments. We have learnt that engineering is hard, but rewarding.

Professor Colin Sheppard colin@nus.edu.sg Colin Sheppard (FIEE, FIOP) is Professor and Head of the Division of Bioengineering in National University of Singapore, and is also Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology in the School of Medicine. He has received many prizes and awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and the Institute of Physics Optics and Photonics Division Prize. He has served as Vice-President of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) and President of the International Society for Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS). He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (the official journal of the European Optical Society). He has presented more than 90 invited conference papers, including 20 plenary or keynote talks. He has published 2 books, 4 edited books, 44 book chapters, and 300 refereed journal articles. Professor Sheppard's main area of research is in confocal microscopy, including instrumental development and investigation of novel techniques with bio-medical and industrial applications. He was a pioneer in this area and developed one of the world's first confocal microscopes in 1975. He proposed nonlinear microscopy, including 2-photon fluorescence microscopy in 1978, and published the first images from scanning second-harmonic microscopy, also in 1978. His research interests also include diffraction and focusing, beam and pulse propagation, scattering, and image formation. He proposed the Bessel-Gauss beam (1978), and the linearly-polarized electromagnetic Bessel beam (1978). He has worked in the areas of electron beam instruments, vacuum and surface analysis, photoelectronic devices, optical fibres, optical information processing systems and optical communications.