Megha Khokhar will be working in the field of 4pi localization microscopy technique aiming to image fluorescence at cryogenic temperature. She will work under the guidance of Prof. Bernd Rieger and Prof. Sjoerd Stallinga.

Alim Yolalmaz is a post-doctoral researcher in Kalkman Research group supervised by Prof. Jeroen Kalkman. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Micro and Nanotechnology from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. He has a B.Sc. degree in Physics Engineering with a double major in Mechanical Engineering at Gaziantep University in Turkey.

Lidija Nikolic joined ImPhys as Management Assistant. She is originally from Slovenia and has been living in The Netherlands for 15 years. Although she is totally new to TU Delft, she has gained experience in international environments during her previous assignments.

Het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap heeft een Zwaartekracht-subsidie van 20,8 miljoen euro toegekend aan het IMAGINE! consortium, waar TU Delft onderzoekers Elizabeth Carroll, Sjoerd Stallinga (allebei ImPhys) en Carlas Smith (3ME) deel van uitmaken.

She's a cell biologist, he's a physicist. They met in Harvard. In the Netherlands they developed the UFO microscope that can distinguish a few dangerous cancer cells from a sea of ​​innocent ones.

Met een speciale lichtmicroscoop gedetailleerde 3D-opnames maken van eiwitten in levende cellen, zonder die cellen te beschadigen. Dat wil Sjoerd Stallinga, winnaar van een ERC Advanced grant van 2,3 miljoen euro, voor elkaar krijgen. Daarvoor gaat hij samples nanometer voor nanometer scannen met een uitgekiend 3D-lichtpatroon. Een aanpak waarvoor samenwerking tussen verschillende disciplines nodig is.

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to Sjoerd Stallinga The European grant enables internationally established research leaders to conduct a five-year research project.

Voltage imaging and optogenetics offer new routes to optically detect and influence neural dynamics. Optimized hardware is necessary to make the most of these new techniques. In this study the Octoscope, a versatile, multimodal device for all-optical electrophysiology is presented. The researchers illustrate its concept and design and demonstrate its capability to perform both 1-photon and 2-photon voltage imaging with spatial and temporal light patterning, in both inverted and upright configurations, in vitro and in vivo.

Jasper van Leeuwen will be working on dielectric active shimming for his thesis at Mars Lab, supervised by David Maresca and Paulina Šiurytė. The goal of the project is to incorporate remote switching in addition to designing, making, and testing a next-generation device, and if time permits, EM simulations.

Recently researchers of the departments Chemical Engineering and Imaging Physics explored and demonstrated the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to measure the spatio-temporal concentration of solute in drying droplets and the development of a solidifying shell at the liquid-air interface, using aqueous droplets of maltodextrin as a model system.