Since 2005 Nugent has been director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, based at the University of Melbourne, where he has driven the development of coherent X-ray diffraction methods for imaging biological structures His other research focusses on the complete recovery of phase from intensity and the applications of this to imaging [ http : / / www . chemistry . unimelb . edu . au / staff / quiney / www / synchnet / people / nugent . php.
