Marco graduated in Applied Physics from the University of Pisa in 2008 and obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Siena in 2012. He moved to London in 2012 when he joined the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at University College London as a postdoctoral researcher.
He secured a Marie-Curie career integration grant in 2013 and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in 2016 that supported his activities on laboratory-based X-ray dark-field microscopy and microtomography. Marco is now Professor of Experimental Physics and part of the Advanced X-ray Imaging group at UCL, where X-ray phase-contrast imaging techniques have been pioneered and developed for nearly two decades.
His contributions to the field include a method, now UCL-proprietary, for X-ray dark-field imaging under incoherent illumination and hence suitable for laboratory settings as it is compatible with standard X-ray tubes. Since November 2020 he is co-Director of the National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT), which makes the first lab-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging systems available to industry and to the research community.
Marco joined The Francis Crick Institute as a satellite group leader in 2023.
