Dula Parkinson is the Deputy for Photon Science Operations at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also leads the Diffraction and Imaging Program and is the principal beamline scientist for X-ray micro-tomography at the ALS. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with UCSF doing nanoCT X-ray imaging of whole cells, received a PhD in Physical Chemistry from UC Berkeley doing ultrafast spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems, and received a BS in Chemistry from BYU doing infrared imaging of treated wood.