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Dr Gianfelice Cinque serves as Principal Beamline Scientist for the Multimode InfraRed Microscopy And Imaging (MIRIAM) beamline B22 at Diamond Light Source, a role he has held since joining the facility at the inception of the B22 project in 2006 after transitioning from INFN labs in Frascati, Rome, where he managed Soft X-ray and IR beamlines.
His research spans Infrared Spectroscopy, Synchrotron Radiation applications, and advanced imaging techniques with critical impacts across biomedical physics, materials engineering, and cultural heritage analysis. He pioneers synchrotron-enhanced IR microspectroscopy for single-cell chemotherapy response assessment, stem cell biomarker identification, catalyst microstructure characterization under mechanical stress, and XV-century pigment evolution studies in historical artworks.
Current innovations include developing full-field IR microscopy using broadband synchrotron illumination for high-magnification (74x) molecular mapping and advancing near-field IR spectroscopy via submicron cantilever tips to achieve organelle-scale imaging in living cells. His THz spectroscopy work leverages Diamond's Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in low-alpha mode to probe molecular collective modes and superconductor gaps across the broadest (<3 THz) spectral range available at any synchrotron facility.
Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, provides the infrastructure for his work, which fundamentally enhances molecular sensitivity and spatial resolution beyond conventional IR methods through synchrotron radiation's unique properties.
