Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM)

Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain (INM-1)

Dennis Scheidt: Best dissertation and sholarship

The Institute of Nuclear Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has awarded Dr. Dennis Scheidt the prize for the best dissertation of 2024. The young researcher from Prof. Markus Axer's team at INM-1will also receive a scholarship from the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP).

Scheidt completed his dissertation “Phase conjugation to enhance transmission and focusing of light through turbid media” in August 2024. It deals with wavefront correction, which reduces the scattering and diffraction of light as it passes through optically turbid media (e.g. tissue). In his work, the prizewinner implemented the wavefront correction method for various spectral representations of light fields and worked out fundamental limitations of single-pixel imaging.

Dennis Scheidt: Auszeichnung für beste Dissertation — Dennis Scheidt (left) with tutor Pedro Quinto

Just recently, the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich selected a study published by Dennis Scheidt and Pedro Quinto-Su from the Institute of Nuclear Sciences at UNAM in the “Journal of Optics” as “Open Access Publication of the Month” . The study deals with image errors (aberrations) that occur in single-pixel imaging using coherent laser light.

Scholarship

Meanwhile, the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP) has awarded Dennis Scheidt the Wolfgang Schlegel Fellowship. As part of the scholarship, he will carry out the first holographic polarization light measurements on brain tissue samples prepared at the INM-1 in cooperation with the Laboratory for Optical Trapping at the UNAM Physics Institute. A holographic microscope will be used, which was jointly developed and further improved on site.

Press release of UNAM