Leading Light: Professor Joanna Collingwood

This Leading Light features Joanna Collingwood, our third in a series of intimate video portraits. Joanna is a lecturer at the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick and professor in the systems and information stream. She specialises in the area of trace metal analysis, high resolution imaging and neurodegenerative disorders. At Diamond, her work has included the development of microfocus synchrotron radiation techniques to study metal ion accumulations in human brain tissue. This study, conducted on beamline I08, looked at diseased brain tissue caused by the neurodegenerative diseases Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s. It is hoped that the conclusions could ultimately lead to an understanding of how nanoparticles play a part in the process.