EMBO SHORT TERM FELLOW Keren Zahlenchuck joins the SPPIN to work on advanced beam shaping strategies for mesoscale light-sheet microscopy

Keren Zahlenchuck is going to rejoin SPPIN’s team “Biophysics of the brain” (Oheim, https://www.sppin.fr/) from 1 September onwards. Keren is the recipient of an EMBO short term fellowship and will be working with Brieuc Chauvin, Hugo Touja and Martin Oheim on new strategies to keep light-sheets thin and well-defined over large propagation distances (fields of view). Her work will further strengthen SPPIN’s traversal axis “Multi-scale neuroanatomy” (see https://www.sppin.fr/multiscale/). Keren is a physics PhD student from Alon Bahabad’s lab at TAU and she is a specialist in advanced beam shaping strategies.

Contact : Martin Oheim

Selected publications:

Optical archimedes screw along arbitrary trajectories, K Zhalenchuck, B Hadad, A Bahabad‏, Laser & Photonics Reviews 16 (4), 2100621 (2022)

‏Simple algorithm for the design of accelerating Bessel-like beams with adjustable features along their propagation‏, K Zhalenchuck, A Bahabad‏, Optics Express 31 (14), 23430-23443‏  (2023)

Optical archimedes screw with acceleration of both trajectories and orbital angular momentum‏, K Zhalenchuck, D Marima, B Hadad, A Bahabad‏, Journal of Optics 24 (11), 115607 (2022)‏

Bessel beams with an adjustable focal position‏, K Zhalenchuck, A Bahabad‏, Applied Optics 64 (10), 2403-2407‏