David Maresca, one of the 'Rising Stars' of the Delft Health Initiative

A large initiative was established by the Dutch government to fund 8 tenure track assistant professors across the 4 technical universities. At TU Delft, David Maresca and Sebastian Weingartner were carefully selected amongst the best. Both candidates are being honored as Rising Stars of TU Delft for their brilliant beginnings, for both have received the prestigious START-UP Grant awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), which funds top researchers, steers the course of Dutch science by means of research programs and by managing the national knowledge infrastructure. We are featuring David Maresca first, in a two-part introduction to the newly appointed assistant professors.

The way to establishing his own lab:

Maresca started studying physics in Paris (France) and was particularly drawn to physics at the interface with other disciplines. When he had to choose a research project for a bachelor’s course, he decided on a study that focuses on the brain. "That was the first time I discovered physics applied to medicine and it was really exciting; I even got the chance to assist a neurosurgeon”, says Maresca.  As a young scientist, Maresca moved to the Netherlands and worked as an intern at Philips High Tech campus. He pursued his career as a PhD candidate at Erasmus MC in the biomedical engineering department. He continued with a postdoctoral fellowship at the Langevin institute in Paris, followed by a second postdoctoral experience at Caltech. He is now establishing his own laboratory that will focus on biomolecular ultrasound imaging in the ImPhys department of TU Delft. 

Read the rest of this story on the Delft Health Initiative pages.