Biography
Tom Vettenburg is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Dundee, where he was recently awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to start his research group on Computational Microscopy. This research interest started with his PhD on hybrid optical-digital imaging systems at the Imaging Concepts group at Heriot-watt University. He later translated these principles to microscopy at the Optical Manipulation group in St Andrews. Tom’s work on the Airy beam light-sheet microscopy of large samples resulted in a highly cited Nature Methods publication, multiple patents, and their subsequent commercialization. After a Marie Curie individual fellowship at UC3M in Madrid, he continued his research at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health and later at MIT. In 2017, Tom returned to the UK to work with Jacopo Bertolotti in Exeter. Today he leads the Computational Imaging group in Dundee, focussed on beating the scattering limits in microscopy.
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University of Dundee, UK
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Invited speaker, 2026