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About me
About me
I was born in a small town in the North of Barcelona (Catalonia). When I was little I wanted to understand how things work and I ended up studying Physics to very soon learn that only spherical cows in vacuum can be completely explained. Later during my PhD work at ALBA Light Source (2004 to 2008), I became interested in X-ray Imaging and Microscopy while working on the nanofabrication of Diffractive X-ray Optics. I am also an expert user of Electron Beam Lithography to produce the nanometer sized structures that are required to diffractively bend and focus the X-ray beams.
After my PhD, I spent also three years in Switzerland (cows, cheese, chocolate, mountains, snow…) while working at the Paul Scherrer Institut (2008 to 2010) and two years living near Chicago (USA) and working at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory (2010 to 2012). After that, I lived in two years in Oxford (England, UK) and I worked at I13 - X-ray Imaging and Coherence beamline of the Diamond Light Source (2013 to 2015). In 2015, I moved again to Switzerland and I worked five years at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and the TOMCAT beamline group developing X-ray phase contrast grating interferometry (2015 to 2020).
Since Autumn 2020, I am research scientist at the X-ray Nano-Optics at the Laboratory for X-ray Nanoscience and Technologies at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland).
Contact me:
Dr. Joan Vila-Comamala
Research Scientist on X-ray Optics
Laboratory for X-ray Nanoscience and Technologies
Paul Scherrer Institut
Forschungstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 56 310 5133
joan.vila.comamala(at)gmail.com
Research Interests
Diffractive X-ray Optics; Micro- and Nanofabrication Techniques; Electron Beam Lithography; X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging; Synchrotron Radiation; Microtomography, X-ray Microscopy and Coherent Diffraction Imaging.
News
16 September 2025 - New Paper in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
Deep-reactive-ion-etching in X-ray grating fabrication: a review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369800125007784
18 July 2025 - New Paper in Nanophotonics
Dichroism of coupled multipolar plasmonic modes in twisted triskelion stacks
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0063
18 June 2025 - New Paper in Communications Physics
All hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02178-y
25 May 2025 - New Paper in Optics Express
A monolithic X-ray Achromat
http://doi.org/10.1364/OE.557328
15 May 2025 - New Paper in Journal of Chemical Physics
Femtosecond x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy enables direct observations of atomic-scale relaxations of glass forming liquids
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0264574
11 March 2025 - New Paper in Scientific Reports
Diffractive lenses for neutron techniques
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92329-6
06 March 2024 - New Paper in Small Methods
Transient X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure Spectroscopy Using Broadband Free-Electron Laser Pulses
https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301328
04 June 2023 - New Paper in Scientific Reports
Towards virtual histology with X-ray grating interferometry
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35854-6
04 May 2023 - New Paper in Light: Science & Applications
Apochromatic X-ray Focusing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01157-8
20 April 2023 - New Paper in Physical Review Research
Frequency and spatially chirped free-electron laser pulses
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022009
12 January 2023 - New Paper in Optics Express
Refractive axicon for X-ray microscopy applications: design, optimization, and experiment
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.478114
14 March 2022 - New Paper in Nature Communications
An achromatic X-ray lens
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28902-8
19 October 2021 - New Paper in Physical Review Research
Generation of highly mutually coherent hard-x-ray pulse pairs with an amplitude-splitting delay line
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043050
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