Excillum
Simona Cristina Laza is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in managing strategic partnerships and public projects, currently serving as Manager of Strategic Public Partnerships at Excillum since March 2019. Laza's background includes roles such as Research Project Manager at Excillum, EU Project Manager at KTH, and External Collaborator at Noventus. Previous positions encompass Project Manager at Inria, Senior Research Fellow at Ecole Centrale Paris and Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, and Post-Doc at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory. Laza holds a PhD in Physics from Università di Pisa and a Master's degree in Optics and Spectroscopy of Laser Materials from West University of Timisoara.
Excillum
Excillum is a company the operates in the field of high-end microfocus and nanofocus X-ray sources. Excillum was founded in 2007 by researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden. The first product was market released in 2010, the MetalJet. The unique metal-jet-anode concept of the Excillum x-ray source enables a morethan tenfold increase of x-ray brightness compared to conventional technology.The company is on a mission to enable new science, improve medicine and enhance manufacturing by continous development of state-of-the-art X-ray sources.