Colin Sheppard

Colin Sheppard, usually cited as C. J. R. Sheppard, is Senior Scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy. Previously, he was Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Faculty of Engineering for National University of Singapore (2003-2012). He has held joint appointments with the NUS Departments of Biological Sciences (Faculty of Science) and Diagnostic Radiology (School of Medicine). He was SMART (Singapore/MIT Alliance for Research & Technology) Faculty Fellow, and Adjunct Research Staff at SERI (Singapore Eye Research Institute).

His areas of research are in optics, microscopy and imaging, including confocal and multiphoton microscopy, diffraction, 3D imaging and reconstruction, superresolution, beam propagation, and pulse propagation.

He received the MA and PhD degrees in Engineering from University of Cambridge (1972 and 1973), and a DSc in Physical Sciences from the University of Oxford (1986).

He held a Science & Engineering Research Council Advanced Fellowship (1974-6) and was University Lecturer in Engineering Science at Oxford University (1979–89). He was Junior Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford (1975-8) and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University (1979–89). He was Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney (1989–2003), and Research Director of the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis (1995–2001).

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