Julian Katzke
Postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History who worked on the AntScan project during his PhD at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, producing high-resolution 3D X-ray scans of ants for research and public use.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 13min
Building a digital ant gallery, from the ground up
Dr. Julian Katzke, a postdoc at the Smithsonian who built the AntScan 3D ant imaging pipeline during his PhD, discusses making high-resolution, micrometer-scale X-ray scans of thousands of ants. He explains the fast synchrotron scanning setup, the stunning anatomical detail revealed, and how the open dataset can power science, art, and AI-driven research.
