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Dr. Marcus C. Newton
Dr. Marcus C. Newton

Dr. Marcus C. Newton is a lecturer in the Physics & Astronomy department of the Univrsity of Southampton. He is interested in understanding phenomena in correlated electronic materials such as vanadium dioxide and zinc oxide. His research is focused on coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) of nanoscale materials using hard X-ray synchrotron sources such as the SACLA X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility and the Diamond Light Source. He also conducts theroretical research into non-linear optimisation and the phase retrieval problem which is encountered in a number of disciplines including X-ray crystallography, sparse-aperture imagery and astronomy. Dr. Newton is also the author of the "Interactive Phase Retrieval Suite", the first software package that allows for real-time visualisation of the reconstruction of phase information in both two and three dimensions. This software is used for analysing diffraction data obtained from coherent X-ray diffraction imaging experiments.