Professor Rob Lewis is the foundation chair of X-ray and Synchrotron Physics at Monash University, soon to be the site of the new Australian Synchrotron, and is the director of the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science.

He currently holds an adjunct chair in Medical Imaging in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and a visiting appointment at Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source. Professor Lewis sits on the Board of the Australian Synchrotron Research Programme, the National Scientific Advisory Committee for the Australian synchrotron and is an expert panel member for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK.

Rob's scientific work has focussed on the medical applications of synchrotron radiation including both diagnosis and therapy. His current research includes cancer diagnosis using -rays, radiotherapy and positron emission tomography.

Research topics of interest are:

• Measurement of mass attenuation coefficients of various breast tissues
• Dose-energy image quality assessment of slot scanning mammography
• Tissue specific X-ray imaging
• Breast cancer diagnosis utilising scattered x-rays
• Assessment of refraction imaging for medical use
• X-ray Detection