Skip to content | Change text size

Information for Information about Researchers at MCSS
 

Marian Cholewa

Marian Cholewa

Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science Beamline Senior Research Fellow

MSc (Physics), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. 1977
PhD (Physics), Investigation of materials with the use of microbeam and PIXE technique, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow. Poland, 1987
Habilitation (Physics), Development and Applications of Microanalytical Techniques, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow. Poland, 2006
Phone +61 (3) 9905 9480

Email:Marian.Cholewa@sync.monash.edu.au

Research interests

Marian Cholewa received his PhD degree from Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland after working on his project (1982-85) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His work involved development and applications of Proton and X-ray microprobes in Biology and Medicine. From 1987 to 1998 he had been working at the Micro Analytical Research Centre in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. From 1998 until 2004 he had been a Director of MC Scientific Consulting Pty. Ltd. in Australia. In the period from 2000 to 2007 he had been working at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany (2000-2003), Singapore Synchrotron Light Source in Singapore (2003-2007) and ANKA synchrotron in Karlsruhe, Germany. Since the completion of his MSc degree he has been specializing in developments of a new analytical and microanalytical systems and techniques with ion, X-rays, laser and electron beams and their applications. He has been actively involved or initiated projects in the following key areas:

  • Development and applications of an X-ray microprobe system for imaging and elemental/chemical analysis and its applications.
  • Development and applications of high resolution 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques.
  • Development and applications of a glass capillary optics for synchrotron and laboratory sources.
  • Development and application of a single ion hit facility (SIHF) for irradiation of living cells with single ions and X-rays focused to submicron resolution.
  • Development and applications of the MeV ion microprobes in Australia, Germany, Japan and Poland.
  • Development of new high efficiency detection systems for ions and X-rays.
  • Development of new analytical facilities for detecting low level of contamination in semiconductor materials.

These and many other research projects resulted in 2 international patents and over 100 publications in international journals and over 50 conference presentations.

Current projects include:

  • Development and applications of analytical techniques at the Microspectroscopy beamline at Australian Synchrotron (AS)
  • Developing and applications of new imaging modalities at the Imaging and Medical Therapy beamline at the AS
  • Continuation of works on highly efficient detectors for ions and X-rays.

Selected publications

Ion Beams as high resolution probes of structure and function. Legge, G.J.F., Saint, A., Bench, G., Laird, J., Cholewa, M. Nucl. Istrum. & Meth., B64 (1992)342-348.

The use of a Scanning Proton Microprobe to observe anti-HIV drugs within cells. Cholewa, M., Legge, G.J.F., Weigold, H., Holan, G., Birch, C.J. Life Sciences, Vol. 54, Issue 21 (May 23, 1994)1607-1612.

High resolution techniques using Scanning Proton Microprobe (SPM). Cholewa, M., Saint, A., Prawer, S., Laird, J.S., Legge, G.J.F., Bardos, R.A., Moorhead, G.F., Taylor, G.N., Stuart, S-A., Howard, J. Nucl. Instrum. & Meth., B89 (1994)157.

Permeability, Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Cr(III) Complexes in V79 Chinese Hamster Lung Cells. Dillon, C., Lay, P.A., Bonin, A.M., Legge, G.J.F., Cholewa, M. Chem. Res. Toxicol, Vol. 13, No. 8 (2000) 742-748

Permeability, Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Cr(V) and Cr(VI) Complexes in V79 Chinese Hamster Lung Cells. Dillon, C., Lay, P.A., Bonin, A.M., Legge, G.J.F., Cholewa, M., Collins, T.J., Kostka, K.L. Chem. Res. Toxicol., Vol. 11, No 2 (1998)119-129.

Design of a Single Ion Hit Facility. Cholewa, M., Saint, A., Legge, G.J.F., Kamiya, T. Nucl. Instrum. & Meth., B130 (1997) 275-279.

Detection of Heavy Trace Impurities in Silicon. Jacobsen, F.M., Zarcone, M.J., Steski, D., Smith, K., Thieberger, P., Lynn, K.G., Throwe, J., Cholewa, M. Semiconductor International, June (1996)243.

Diamond Membranes: Applications for Single Ion Detection Using Secondary Electron Emission. Cholewa, M., Kamiya, T., Saint, A., Prawer, S., Legge, G.J.F., Butler, J.E., Vestyck, D.J. Diamond and Related Materials, Vol. 7 (1998)510-512.

Preparatory Experiments for a Single Ion Hit Facility at GSI. Cholewa, M., Fischer, B.E., Heiss, M. Nucl. Instrum. & Meth., B210 (2003) 296-301.

High resolution 3-dimensional tomography with X-rays at Singapore Synchrotron Light Source M. Cholewa, Yang Ping, Ng May Ling, Li Zhi Juang, H. O. Moser, Yeukuang Hwu Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. B - in press