Mark Donnachie is a first year PhD student in the Electronic and Electrical Engineering department. He obtained an integrated Masters in Physics from the University of Dundee in 2018. The aim of his project is to develop a miniaturised, combined selective plane illumination microscope (SPIM) and photoacoustic imaging (PAI) system using Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) mirrors, micro-optics and optical ultrasonic transducers. His supervisors are Dr Ralf Bauer (primary) and Prof Deepak Uttamchandani (secondary).

• Miniaturised light sheet microscopy
• Photoacoustic imaging
• Optical MEMS for biomedical imaging

• S. Reidt, R. Correia, M. Donnachie, C. Wejier, and M. MacDonald, “Gaussian vs. Bessel light-sheets: performance analysis in live large sample imaging” in SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, San Diego, CA, USA, 2017, p. 1034709. DOI:10.1117/12.2277324