Colin J.R. Sheppard 24th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2016

Colin J.R. Sheppard

Colin Sheppard obtained his PhD degree from University of Cambridge, in the SEM group of Professor Sir Charles Oatley. He is now Senior Scientist in the Nanophysics Department at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa. Previously he has been Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering, Biological Sciences and Diagnostic Radiology at the National University of Singapore, Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney, and University Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. He has held many visiting positions at different institutions, including EPFL, MIT, Stanford, Tokyo University and TU-Delft. He developed an early confocal microscope, the first with computer control and storage (1983), launched the first commercial confocal microscope (1982), published the first scanning multiphoton images (1977), proposed two-photon fluorescence and CARS microscopy (1978), and patented scanning microscopy using Bessel beams (1977). In 1988, he proposed scanning microscopy using a detector array with pixel reassignment, now known as image scanning microscopy.