Prof. Dr. Marco Stampanoni

Marco Stampanoni has been Assistant Professor (2008-2013), Associate Professor (2013-2017) and since 2017 Full Professor for X-Ray Imaging at ETH Zurich, within the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich. His professorship is affiliated to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the University and ETH Zurich, where he leads the division for X-ray Imaging and Microscopy. At the Paul Scherrer Institut, he is the head of the X-ray tomography group at the Swiss Light Source (SLS).

Born on May 10, 1974 in Lugano (Ticino, Switzerland) Marco Stampanoni studied physics at the ETH Zurich. After receiving his diploma in 1998, he graduated at the ETH in 2002 in the area of synchrotron-based tomographic microscopy. For his PhD, he received the ETH silver medal in 2003. From 1998 to 2000 he successfully followed a post-graduate course in Medical Physics. In 2002 he started as an Instrument Scientist at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) of the Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen, Switzerland. In 2004 he was nominated beamline scientist and responsible for the development and realization of a tomography dedicated beamline at the SLS. In 2005 he was elected Head of the "X-ray Tomography Group" of the SLS.  In 2008 he was appointed Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for X-ray Microscopy at the ETH Zurich and, in 2010, Director of the ETH-Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Medical Physics. In 2012 he received an ERC Grant for his project on phase contrast X-ray imaging and won the “Dalle Molle Foundation Award” for his pioneering work on X-ray phase contrast mammography. He was among the three finalists of the “European Inventor Award 2022” and the recipient of the “Giuseppe Sciacca International Award 2022” for biomedical research. He is teaching at ETH Zurich in the field of X-ray microscopy. Since 2018 he is the President of the Research Commission of the Paul Scherrer Institut.