Marijn Siemons finished his Master thesis "High precision wavefront control for 4D PSF engineering" with a presentation and defence on the 21st of February. He developed a microscope and adaptive optics system alignment and calibration method to reduce the wavefront error substantially below the diffraction limit and applied this system to generate Point Spread Functions for measuring the 3D position and the emission wavelength of single emitters.

Yesterday evening illusionist Victor and DJ Armin van Buuren came to the 'silent' room of Acoustical Wavefield Imaging for the dutch TV program' Mindfuck'.

Today we were present during the BEP/MEP info lunch which was organized by the VvTP in the Aula.

The building activities for our new VLLAIR lab (D1-Wing ground floor) are more or less completed. Gradually the equipment and furniture are moved in. Please find below a “sneak preview” of the lab.

Joost will work together with Robert Moerland on Polarization STED at cryogenic temperatures

Molecules such as proteins act together to regulate life. Correct functioning is intricately related to which molecules locate precisely where within a cell, and dysfunction is often linked to diseases. Current microscopy techniques fail to provide a complete picture: multi-colour optical microscopy does not reach the necessary molecular resolution and it cannot image the underlying details of the cellular structure. The researchers will develop electron-beam induced fluorescence superresolution: integrated optical and electron microscopy with a resolution comparable to the size of biomedically relevant molecular distributions.

Professor R.F. Mudde has been appointed acting head of the department of Imaging Physics (Imphys) for a period of two years with effect from 1 February 2017. Rob Mudde is professor of Multiphase Flow and since January 2016 has been a Distinguished Professor in Science Education at TU Delft. Rob will also be a part of the Management Team of the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Because nowadays there is a lot of pressure to reduce gas production in our Groningen field, we need a shift towards producing other existing, smaller gas fields in the North Sea. The AWI group, together with the recent start-up company Delft Inversion, have been granted by the Dutch Government 240 kEuro to develop a method for enhanced, high-resolution seismic imaging and characterization of these fields.

Exhaled air contains thousands of different compounds, some of which have diagnostic value. A new laser analyser points the way toward portable and highly sensitive gas analysers.

Bernd Rieger has been appointed Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor. His field of research is computational microscopy. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek appointments are intended for the promotion of young outstanding researchers to professorships in order for them to optimally pursue the ongoing development of their academic careers.