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Welcome to Oulu and ICFUTURE2020 conference!

I have a pleasure to introduce you the ICFUTURE2020 — International Conference on Imaging and Characterization — Future Technologies and Applications. ICFUTURE2020 conference brings together scientists and experts in technology development to form a broad view over the number of topics and to induce exciting new ideas via multidisciplinary collaboration. The conference covers the multitude of topics with a common theme in Imaging and Characterization: research on atmosphere and environment, materials and processes, bio and medical sciences with technology development and even with the present advances in industry.

Research and innovations rooted at the University of Oulu in wide international collaboration network are changing and shaping the world. About 2.6 billion people worldwide use daily technology developed in Oulu. Major innovations are based on multidisciplinary high-level research — Fact applies also in imaging and characterization and brings us together in ICFUTURE2020.

The conference is organized as a part of the I4Future — Imaging for the Future: Novel Imaging and Characterization Methods in Bio, Medical and Environmental Research and Technology Innovations doctoral programme. I4Future is an EU Horizon2020 co-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie action international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral doctoral programme hosted by University of Oulu.

The international conference takes place in Oulu, at hotel Lasaretti in the middle of the Finnish winter. We warmly welcome all participants, exhibitors and sponsors to enjoy the recent advances in imaging and characterization! Hopefully you will also experience the “Arctic attitude” of the University of Oulu.

Welcome!

On behalf of the organizing and program committees,

Marko Huttula, Chair of the conference

Table of contents

TECHNOLOGIES / NOVEL DEVELOPMENTS

Janne Suhonen: Fabry-Perot based spectral sensors and their applications for process industry, farming and consumer applications

Mari Tenhunen: Time-gated Raman for material characterization

Tuomas Soudunsaari: Towards improved ore sorting performance with high accuracy x-ray sensors

Simone Sala: Scanning microscopy at hard X-rays synchrotron sources: present and future perspectives

Emil Espes: Advancing phase-contrast X-ray imaging with liquidmetal-jet anode and extreme-resolution sources

Ana Diaz: X-ray ptychographic tomography: high-resolution 3D imaging with quantitative contrast

Matti Aula: Optical emission spectroscopy in control of electric arc furnaces

Esa Turunen: Coupling between geospace and atmosphere — new research opportunity by the volumetric imaging incoherent scatter radar facility EISCAT_3D

BIO & MEDICAL SCIENCES

John Heddleston: Imaging Life with the Emerging Frontiers in Microscopy Advanced Imaging Center

Henrik Birkedal: Bone hierarchical structure through multimodal X-ray imaging techniques

Hanna Kemppi: Optimization of barium titanate nanoparticle — functionalized composite scaffold for tissue engineering applications

Shahab Khakpour: CT-based simulation of body posture effect on the proximal femur strain distribution during lateral and posterolateral falls

Tuomas Mansikkala: Using soft X-ray radiation in identification and characterization of biological samples

Peter Friedl: Plasticity of cancer invasion, metastasis and therapy response

TECHNOLOGIES / GENERAL

Adam Hitchcock: Advanced Materials Analysis by Synchrotron-based Soft X-ray Microscopy

Jiri Matas: Visual Fine-grained Recognition Systems for Biological Problems

Mariia Borovkova: Stokes-Mueller polarimetry for Alzheimer’s progression screening in mouse brain tissue

Denis Garri: Implementation of machine-based learning solutions in cell classification task for optimal pathology

ATMOSPHERE & ENVIRONMENT

Markku Kulmala: Our burning planet: The importance of continuous comprehensive observations — From atmospheric clustering via feedback loops to global climate and regional air quality

Martin Obst: Combining soft X-ray microscopy with electrochemistry to study redox-sensitive organic matter

Paulo de Tarso Ferreira Sales: Detection of caffeine and hormones in samples from Meia Ponte river, Brazil

Georgia Michailoudi: Aqueous phase behavior of glyoxal and methylglyoxal observed with synchrotron XAS

MATERIALS & PROCESSES

Ulla Lassi: High capacity Al-coated high nickel cathode for lithium-ion batteries

Mari Honkanen: Structural characteristics of fresh, thermally aged, poisoned and regenerated Pt-Pd catalysts studied by analytical transmission electron microscopy