Benjamin Smith, PhD

Research Interests

I am a research scientist and the imaging specialist for the Vision Science program at the University of California, Berkeley. My primary responsibilities are to assist on a diverse array of research projects, design and build custom optical and electrical systems, write quantitative image processing algorithms, teach classes on image processing, and conduct community outreach. I also oversee a microscopy core resource, as well as various microscope systems throughout the Vision Science program. Between my PhD research and my post-graduate work I have published papers in fields as diverse as nanocomposite engineering, chemistry, cell biology, and plant biology, including first-author papers in the fields of cell biology, microbiology, neuroscience, and nanocomposites.