Dr Roger M. Groves is Associate Professor in Aerospace NDT/SHM and Heritage Diagnostics at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cranfield University, UK (2002) and was a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Applied Optics, University of Stuttgart before joining TU Delft in 2008. His research interests are in the development of custom optical and ultrasonic instrumentation and algorithms for materials testing and structural analysis. Since 2004, he has led and participated in a number of cultural heritage projects, applying his expertise in shearography, OCT and spectral imaging to investigate material and structural degradation. Dr Groves heads a group of 20 researchers in TU Delft and has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He is chair of the SPIE Optics for Arts, Architecture and Archaeology Conference, a Fellow of SPIE and a Member of IIC, IOP, OSA and RSC.