Awoke Negash joined ImPhys as Post-Doc
Awoke Negash joined ImPhys per February 1st as post-doc. He will work on the Bio-Imaging Advanced Microscopy project under supervision of Bernd Rieger.
Awoke was born in the historical town of Gondar, in Ethiopia on August 9, 1986. After high school, he joined Mekelle University in Ethiopia to study Electrical and computer engineering from 2004 – 2008. After graduation, he has worked at Debrebirhan university in Ethiopia as a graduate assistant while studying his master degree in communication systems at Addis Ababa University. By working in Debrebirhan university he has assisted students in their laboratory works, in circuit analysis and communication systems courses for bachelor students from 2008 to 2012.His European education starts in 2012 when he joined Ghent university to study photonics engineering under Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. His photonics study continues as he joins a PhD program in 2014 under Euro-photonics doctoral programme on photonics, optics and image processing, and graduated on November 2017. The goal of his PhD thesis was basically to implement structured light illumination microscopy (SIM) by creating well calibrated as well as random speckle patterns. The images from such patterns requires a dedicated reconstruction algorithm, and developing it was one of the main goals.
Awoke Negash
He has gained computational skills such as algorithm development, inverse problems/optimization, deconvolution algorithms, computational imaging, data analysis and image/signal processing.
After his PhD, he immediately joined LaboratoireKastler-Brossel, in Paris, as a postdoc, to extend his image reconstruction algorithm work for a combined SIM and two-Photon microscopy for improving resolution. From March 2019 to March 2020, he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Dundee, UK. He has worked on tri-SPIM light sheet microscope which was being used for imaging live biological samples with high resolution in the school of life science at the University of Dundee. The job requires to work on optical assembly, alignment, and calibration of tri- SPIM microscope, Image acquisition and data analysis including image deconvolutions. In addition he has worked on the home built single/dual view light sheet microscope instrumentation, and acquisition software development using C++ programming.