Photonics has been defined as the key enabling technology for the 21st century, improving industries’ businesses and becoming more competitive on al global scale. The Photonics Event is an exhibition addressing different photonics technologies and different industries where these technologies are applied. This event will be held in Veldhoven on June 14th.

Wiro Niessen, Professor of Biomedical Imaging one of 26 new members appointed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The Academy has approximately 550 members across all scientific disciplines. These leading scientists are elected on the basis of their scientific achievements. Members are appointed for life. The new Academy members will be installed on Thursday 8 June.

On May 10th, the NVMU held their spring meeting at the TU Delft. The programme started with a lecture of Dr. ir. Martin Verweij (ImPhys Acoustical Wavefield Imaging) about harmonic imaging. After lunch they continued with the scientific sessions:

Richard works on a Monte Carlo diffusion simulation to simulate the diffusion-weighted MRI signal of a brain phantom. His supervisors are Frans Vos & Joor Arkesteijn

Luuk started his BSc thesis on: "Optimum Metric for 20 Datafusion in localization microsopy". His supervisor is Sjoerd Stallinga.

ImPhys PhD student Tom Callewaert is imaging famous paintings at the Gallery of Honour of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with optical coherence tomography. In a collaboration between 3mE (Joris Dik) and ImPhys (Jeroen Kalkman) Callewaert is studying thin varnish layers on Rembrandts’ famous Jewish bride painting to assess where restorations took place and where original varnish layers are still present. On the image you can see our ultrahigh resolution OCT in live action at the museum.

Yes it happened. Our Annelies is secretary of the Year at TU Delft!!

Prof. Lidke is currently with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque USA. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2002 on experimental low temperature physics. From 2002 to 2005 he was a PosDoc with Thomas Jovin at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. Since then he has exchanged students and collaborated extensively with Bernd Rieger, mainly on super-resolution light microscopy techniques.

An extra detector on an electron microscope can help determine which molecules are found in which parts of a cell. This is what scientists at the UMCG and Delft University of Technology say in an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports. ‘This detector enables us to assign a colour to molecules in a cell’, says Ben Giepmans, the team leader from Groningen. ‘Multicolour electron microscopes are a new addition to medical research, and they could generate interesting results.’

Aya will start her PhD on 1 May. She will work on on Controlled Electron Beam Induced Nanopatterning. Her supervisor is Kees Hagen. The project is part of the EU Marie-Curie ITN ‘ELENA’