Dr Stephen W. Wilkins, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology.
Brief CV:
Academic Qualification
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Melbourne, 1973
B Sc University of Melbourne, 1967
Major Distinctions and Awards in Past 5 Years
1997 Awarded Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute of
Physics (shared with K A Nugent).
1998 Awarded CSIRO Medal as leader of the X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging
team based at CSIRO Manufacturing Science & Technology, in Clayton.
1998 Promoted to Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO.
1999- Appointed Honorary Professor, Department of Physics, Monash University
now School of Physics and Materials Engineering.
Membership of Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals:
1988- Journal of X?Ray Science and Technology
(Academic Press, San Diego; now IOS Press, Netherlands).
1999- Journal Synchrotron Radiation (Munksgaard, Copenhagen)
Offices Held on Professional Bodies:
1981-86 SCA Standing Committee for X?Ray Diffraction
1986-98 SCA Nominations Committee
1990-2002 Member IUCr Commission on Synchrotron Radiation
1997- Member, National Committee for Crystallography,
Australian Academy of Science
1999-2002 Chairman, International Union of Crystallography Commission on
Synchrotron Radiation
2000- SCANZ (formerly SCA), Member of Council
2000- Member, National Committee for Physics, Australian Academy of Science.
2002- Member of the Coordinating Committee & Chairman ChemMatCARS
sub-committee (ASRP)
Brief summary of expertise and significant research achievements:
Over 30 years research experience in a wide range of aspects of X-ray physics and
imaging spanning dynamical diffraction theory, X-ray optics design and
manufacture, information-theoretic (MaxEnt) approaches to the crystallographic
phase problem, material science studies especially relating to optoelectronic
materials, development of instruments for synchrotron applications (BigDiff),
fundamental aspects of X-ray diffraction and imaging including the development
of novel methods of X-ray phase-contrast imaging including quantitative aspects.
Patents held
Over 7 International Patents filed in the area of X-ray optics and imaging.
Some of these are key patents in relation to the formation and commercial
activities of XRT Limited., a CSIRO spin-off company.
Relevant grants:
Grants awarded in Past 5 Years
2002 Awarded STII-2 Grant (Vic Govt) as member of NanoVic Consortium (A$12M)
2002 Awarded STII-2 Grant (Vic Govt.) as member of V-CAMM Consortium (A$5M)
Relevant publications:
Six most significant publications for the past five years (relevant to the present proposal)
1. T.E. Gureyev and S.W. Wilkins, Regimes of X-ray phase-contrast imaging with perfect crystals
Contrast and resolution in imaging with a microfocus X-ray source
Nuovo Cimento D 1997, 19 545-52.
2. A. Pogany, D. Gao, and S.W. Wilkins, Contrast and resolution in imaging with a microfocus X-ray source
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1997, 68(7) 2774-82.
3. T.E. Gureyev and S.W. Wilkins, On Phase-Contrast Imaging using Polychromatic X-Rays
Optics Communs., 1998 147, 229-32.
4. T.E. Gureyev and S.W. Wilkins On X-ray phase-contrast imaging with a point source
J.Opt.Soc.Am. 1998 A15, 579-85.
5. T.E. Gureyev, S.C. Mayo, S.W. Wilkins, D. Paganin & A.W. Stevenson
Quantitative in-line phase-contrast imaging with multi-energy X rays
Phys. Rev. Letts., 2001, 86, 5827-30.
6. S.C. Mayo, P.R. Miller, S.W. Wilkins, T.J. Davis, D. Gao, T.E. Gureyev, D. Paganin, D.J. Parry, A. Pogany,
& A.W. Stevenson, Quantitative X-ray projection microscopy: phase-contrast and multi-spectral imaging. J. Microscopy 2002, 207, 79-96.
Four additional career best publications (relevant to present proposal)
1. S.W.Wilkins, T.E. Gureyev, D. Gao, A. Pogany, and A.W. Stevenson ,
Phase-contrast imaging using polychromatic hard X-rays Nature 1996, 384, 335-8.
2. T. J Davis,., D., Gao, T. E Gureyev,., A. W. Stevenson,., and S. W Wilkins Phase contrast imaging of weakly absorbing materials using hard X-rays. Nature, 1995 373, 595-598.
3. S.W. Wilkins, J.N. Varghese and M.S. Lehmann Statistical geometry. I. A self?consistent approach to the
crystallographic inversion problem based on information theory. Acta Cryst. 1983, A39, 47?62.
4 S.W. Wilkins, A.W. Stevenson, K.A. Nugent, H. Chapman and S. Steenstrup On the Concentration, Focusing and
Collimation of X?Rays and Neutrons Using Microchannel Plates and Arrays of Holes
Rev. Sci. Instrum., 1989, 60, 1026?36.
Refereed papers (Total) 79
(Since 1999 inclusive 12)
Conference proceedings , book chapters and unrefereed papers (Total) 31
(Since 1999 inclusive 7)
