John Marius Rodenburg is emeritus professor in the Department of

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and

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at the

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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "internationally recognised... work on revolutionising the imaging capability of light, X-ray and electron transmission microscopes".

Education

Rodenburg was educated at

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where he was awarded a

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degree in

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with

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. He moved to the

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to complete his

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on the detection and interpretation of

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patterns which was awarded by the

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in 1986.

Career and research

Rodenburg worked until 1999 in the University of Cambridge as a University Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently emeritus professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. His research interests have mostly been in improving the resolution and other capabilities of electron, X-ray and optical

microscopy Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view subjects too small to be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well-known branches of microscopy: optical mic ...

by processing diffraction patterns instead of using lenses. He has innovated many key developments in the diffractive imaging method called

ptychography Ptychography (/t(a)ɪˈkɒgrəfi/ t(a)i-KO-graf-ee) is a computational microscopy method and a major advance of Coherent diffraction imaging, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), which was first experimentally demonstrated in 1999 using synchro ...

. In 2006, Rodenburg co-founded Phase Focus Limited, which uses ptychography to image live cells to improve cancer drug design. He served as a director and Chief Scientific Officer from 2006 to 2015.

Awards and honours

Rodenburg was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

(FRS) in 2019.

Personal

Rodenburg is married to the material scientist Professor Conny Rodenburg, and is the brother of the voice coach and writer

Patsy Rodenburg Patsy Rodenburg, OBE (born 2 September 1953) is a British voice coach, author, and theatre director. She is the Head of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal ...

References

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