Lasers, Optics & Photonics

Biography

Gary Greenberg earned a PhD in Developmental Biology from University College London in 1981. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California during the 1980’s. In the early 1990’s he began inventing and developing three-dimensional light microscopes, for which he holds 20 US patents. He is the CEO of Edge-3D, LLC, a company that innovates 3D imaging devices for research, industry and biomedicine. Dr. Greenberg has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and has given over fifty international talks, including two TED talks. He has written two books about sand through the microscope, A Grain of Sand: Nature’s Secret Wonder (2008), and The Secrets of Sand (2015), and a children's book, Mary's Magic Microscope (2011). Dr. Greenberg is currently a Research Affiliate at the Advanced Technology Research Center, University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy in Maui, where he uses 21st century microscopes to study Moon sand brought to Earth by NASA during the Apollo Missions. Each grain of sand is unique, and each has a story to tell.

Research Interest

Innovation and development of 3D imaging devices