A recently accepted paper in Nano Letters by ImPhys researchers Robert Moerland, Gerward Weppelman, Marijke Scotuzzi, and Jacob Hoogenboom was mentioned in the news forum of tech-website Tweakers. In the publication our ImPhys colleagues use pulsed beams of electrons instead of photons to probe the light-matter coupling inside nanoscale lasers.

Better insight into white matter (WM) alterations after stroke onset could help to understand the underlying recovery mechanisms and improve future interventions. MR diffusion imaging enables to assess such changes. The goal was to investigate the relation of WM diffusion characteristics derived from diffusion models of increasing complexity with the motor function of the upper limb. Moreover, the researchers aimed to evaluate the variation of such characteristics across different WM structures of chronic stroke patients in comparison to healthy subjects.

On April 23 Sander started his BSc project on MRI Imaging. His supervisor is Frans Vos.

On April 23 Jeffrey Bakker started his BSc project on "DTI MRI tbss ampethamine use". His supervisor is Frans Vos.

Taylor will work on single molecule localisation microscope and build a new setup for imaging. We envision that with this setup he can localise single molecules with less light than the current standard. He will work together with PhD student Ramus Thorsen and as supervisors Sjoerd Stallinga and Bernd Rieger.

Student Ruben van Oosterhoudt from the the Hague University of Applied Sciences started his internship titled: “From 2D to 3D imaging with holography” His supervisors are Jeroen Kalkman and Jos van Rooij.

TUD applied physics student Wahhe Ajroemjan started with his bachelor end project titled “Dynamic range enhanced optical coherence projection tomography” His supervisors are Jeroen Kalkman and Jelle van der Horst.

The National Governing Body for Education Research (NRO) will make available an amount of €100,000 for the new Applied Physics course ‘Design Engineering for Physicists’. The NRO has honoured an application by Prof. Chris Kleijn, Dr. Rolf Hut (CitG/TNW), Dr. Koen van Dongen (TNW) and Prof. Marc de Vries (TNW) for a Comenius Senior Fellowship.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a grant of more than 17 million euros for the further development of the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure (NEMI). The network consists of five university medical centres and eight universities, with Utrecht as the coordinating university. The grant will enable the scientists to combine various technologies in the field of electron microscopy and as a result to learn more about the composition and coherence of the biological and material micro-world.

In the morning of Wednesday 28 March, about 30 7-8 year old children from the Simon Carmiggelt school in Delft visited VLLAIR and some of the labs of QN in the context of their theme month on science.