Xianbo Shi has many years of experience working in Synchrotron science and instrumentation. His Ph.D work focused on the study of supercritical fluids using VUV spectroscopy. Xianbo then worked as a postdoc at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for two years, which includes the optical design of the x-ray powder diffraction beamline at NSLS-II.  In 2012, Xianbo joined ESRF as a junior scientist, working on the design of high-luminosity X-ray emission spectrometers for ultra-fast X-ray emission spectroscopy. Xianbo joined the optics group at APS in April 2013. His research focuses on physical optics modeling and simulation, and optical beamline design in support of a broad range of the optics group R&D activities and the APS upgrade. He is an export on beam coheence and wavefront measurement techniques. He also has considerable experience in crysal optics, spectrometer design and focusin optics simulation.

Xianbo Shi, Wenqian Xu, Andrey Yakovenko, Gregory Halder, Zunping Liu, Charles Kurtz, Lynn Ribaud, Kevin Beyer, Karena Chapman, Peter Chupas "Bent Bragg-Laue monochromator for high-energy X-rays," J. Appl. Cryst. 50, 1158 (2017).

Xianbo Shi, Shashidhara Marathe, Michael J. Wojcik, Naresh G. Kujala, Albert T. Macrander, Lahsen Assoufid "Circular grating interferometer for mapping transverse coherence area of X-ray beams," Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 041116 (2014)

Xianbo Shi, Ruben Reininger, Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Lahsen Assoufid “Hybrid raytracing and wavefront propagation method for beamline simulation,” J. Synchrotron Rad. 21, 669 (2014).

Xianbo Shi, Sanjit Ghose, Eric Dooryhee “Performance calculations of the X-ray powder diffraction beamline at the NSLSII,” J. Synchrotron Rad. 20, 234 (2013).

Xianbo Shi, Sanjit Ghose, Zhong Zhong, Margareta L. Rehak, Konstantine Kaznatcheev, Peter Z. Takacs, Eric Dooryhee, “Surface curvatures and diffraction profiles of sagittally bent Laue crystals,” J. Appl. Cryst. 44, 665 (2011).

Optical beamline design and X-ray optics simulation, At-wavelength metrology, Wavefront and coherene measurement technique. novel X-ray optics R&D, synchrotron x-ray instrumentation and technique, dynamical theory on bend crystal simulation.

Aug. ‘05 – Apr. ‘10  Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, The Graduate Center & Queens College – The City University of New York, New York, USA
Sep. ‘01 – Jul. ‘05  B.S. in Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China

Jun. 17 - present  Physicist (Apr. ‘13 – May. '17  Assistant Physicist), Optics Group, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA -- Optical beamline design and optics simulation in support of a broad range of the APS optics group R&D activities and the APS upgrade.

Apr. ‘12 – Mar. ‘13  Junior Scientist, ID26, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France -- To design and develop instrumentation for ultra-fast X-ray spectroscopy and to improve the efficiency of existing high-luminosity X-ray emission spectrometers.

Apr. ‘10 – Mar. ‘12  Research Associate, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA -- The design and R&D of a state-of-the-art x-ray powder diffraction (XPD) beamline.

Jun. 17 - present  Physicist (Apr. ‘13 – May. '17  Assistant Physicist), Optics Group, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA -- Optical beamline design and optics simulation in support of a broad range of the APS optics group R&D activities and the APS upgrade.

Apr. ‘12 – Mar. ‘13  Junior Scientist, ID26, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France -- To design and develop instrumentation for ultra-fast X-ray spectroscopy and to improve the efficiency of existing high-luminosity X-ray emission spectrometers.

Apr. ‘10 – Mar. ‘12  Research Associate, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA -- The design and R&D of a state-of-the-art x-ray powder diffraction (XPD) beamline.