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The 8th Annual Workshop on Advances in X-ray imaging took place on 24 June 2025, at Harwell, Oxfordshire and was a great success. This is a collaboration between The University of Manchester at , and the with the aim of bringing together scientists from different fields to discuss developments and applications of a variety of X-Ray imaging and complementary techniques, and to build international collaborations.

It was fantastic to host scientists from all over the country, The Universities of Manchester, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Warwick, Glasgow, UCL, ICL etc) and from Denmark, France, Islamabad, Morocco, Pakistan, as well as many of our Harewell colleagues and collaborators from DLS, STFC, CLF, RFI, and industry.

Speakers

Professor , Director, The University of Manchester at Harwell, opened the workshop and delivered the welcome speech, followed by presentations from the following speakers:

1. , University College London
2. , The Rosalind Franklin Institute
3. , Institut Laue-Langevin, France
4. , Diamond Light Source
5. , Science and Technology Facilities Council
6. , DTU Technical University of Denmark
7. , The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
8. , University College London

Workshop topics of conversation

A good part of the workshop was dedicated to techniques development and multimodal imaging. Our excellent speakers presented a variety of complementary imaging techniques such as neutron and X-ray tomography applied to complex coupling in porous media, bespoke multimodal X-ray imaging applied to clinical studies and materials science, cryo-EM tomography combined with soft X-ray tomography applied to Bt bacteria, colour imaging applications in materials science and biomaterials using cutting-edge hyperspectral detectors, and recent developments in natural and cultural heritage at ESRF. 

New exciting developments for pre- and post-imaging were also highlighted during the workshop such as the Core Imaging Library (CIL) for the reconstruction of challenging datasets which can be used in conjunction with open-source X-ray simulation software such as g-VXR, opening the door to digital twinning of XCT. A nice example of visualisation and analysis of 4D datasets using Digital Volume Correlation was also illustrated to understand and predict the emergence of OA.

Posters and poster prizes

• First prize awarded to Zifan Wang, Diamond Light Source
• Second prize awarded to Raziye Kubra Kumrular, μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre, University of Southampton
• Third prize awarded to Harry Allan, University College London

Thank you to everyone who presented a poster, and congratulations to our three winners!

Thank youÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ¦

We would like to say a huge thank you to all our speakers, chairs, sponsors and delegates who helped make the conference a success.