Achere Eyong is currently doing his master’s program in Nanobiology jointly at the TU Delft and Erasmus MC. This relatively new program teaches applied physics, programming and modelling to tackle biophysical problems at the nanoscale. His academic interests lies in optical systems and computational solutions to problems related to biophysics. He will be joining the Menzel lab from the 4th of September.

Simon van Staalduine will be joining the ImPhys department in September and work in the Menzel Lab on improving the information acquisition side of computational scattered light imaging! This is going to be part of his Master's thesis in Nanobiology.

Loes Ettema started her PhD in the lab of Miriam Menzel. She will work on dedicated tissue preparation and measurement protocols for Computational Scattered Light Imaging, in order to facilitate the reconstruction of highly interwoven fiber structures in the brain and other biological tissues.

Robert’s MEP project at Mars Lab will be about improving the homogeneity of the B1+ field for high-field MRI scanners using dielectric blocks with a high relative permittivity. His supervisor is Sebastian Weingartner.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a grant to research on more efficient production of even smaller computer chips in the KIC call ‘Demand-driven Partnerships for Consortia’. Researchers from Delft University of Technology and ARCNL are collaborating with ASML in order to inspect computer chips more precisely and faster with help of electrons. The Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC) research programme stands for pioneering innovative solutions with social and economic impact. NWO funds the research with almost 2 million euros, ASML contributes with over 2.3 million co-funding.

Dr. Dingding Ren recently started his postdoc at the Optics Cluster at ImPhys, where he is supervised by Dr. Jian-Rong Gao, to develop novel flat lens systems using a meta-surface for the detectors/arrays working in the submm and THz wavelengths.

Disentangling the complex nerve fibre network of the brain is becoming easily accessible with scattered light imaging (SLI): researchers in Delft, Jülich (Germany) and Stanford (USA) successfully combined light and X-ray scattering with MRI to discern nerve fibre trajectories, also in regions with highly entangled fibres. SLI revealed the trajectories at highest detail, while being significantly faster and cheaper than X-ray and MRI techniques. Such detailed mapping is essential for a better understanding of how nerve fibres are wired inside the brain.

Mark Vermeulen's Master end project consists of looking at T2Rho relaxation mapping MRI. The hope is that this will eventually reduce the need for contrast agents in cardiac MRI. He is conducting his project in the MARS Lab under supervision of Chiara Coletti and Sebastian Weingärtner.

Enya Berrevoets recently started her PhD at the computational imaging group, where she will be supervised by Sjoerd Stallinga and Bernd Rieger. Her research will take place within the IMAGINE! (Innovative Microscopy and Guidance of cells In their Native Environment) consortium and will be focused on computational imaging solutions for visualising cells and subcellular structures in 3D and at high resolution.

In April 2023, Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf officially opened the renovated Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC) in Utrecht. In what used to be a somewhat disjointed field of science, the EMC provides a hub where researchers from all the relevant disciplines have access to the expensive equipment for electron microscopy. This significant development is the result of the intensive efforts of the Perspectief consortium Microscopy Valley, with Delft University of Technology as one of the parties.