Lex Herrmann will investigate the affects on ultrashort laser pulses that create acoustic pulses inside metals. Together with the known literature, he will try to link theoretical predictions of the shape of the pulse inside the metal with the experimental measurements using interferometry. He will be supervised by Koen van Dongen.

Nuno is doing an Erasmus exchange program from Portugal for the next 6 months. His background is in Applied Physics and he is currently doing his Master's degree in the University of Porto. While in Delft, he will be doing a research project on neural network based parametric mapping under Dr. Qian’s supervision.

Min Park joined the ImPhys department as a lab manager. He will be working with Dr. David Maresca and Dion Terwiel on pH sensitive protein gas vesicles as ultrasound imaging contrasts. He has completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in biological sciences and bioengineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

In October 2022, Dr. Miriam Menzel has joined the Department of Imaging Physics as Assistant Professor. Her lab will exploit the scattering of visible light to resolve complex fiber structures in biological tissues.

The NWO has awarded over 4.5 million euros to six projects through the Open Technology Programme, including the SUSTAINER project of Gijsje Koenderink and the Digital Pathology in 3D project of Sjoerd Stallinga.

It seems reasonable that before students putting much effort in learning difficult things they need to see the reason why that knowledge is of value. In this study we try to create such an awareness pertaining to the value of scientific ‘rules’ in physics inquiry. Without much instruction, students (14-15y) investigate in the context of a new pirate movie the influence of a potential factor on the swing time, information crucial in designing a spectacular but safe stunt.

Maria Adamo joined ImPhys as project officer. She will be working for one day a week at ImPhys for Quantum Nanoscience for two days per week.

Wieke Joustra is a nanobiology master student. She is starting her thesis project in the lab of Elizabeth Carroll with Mette Dekker as daily supervisor. The project is about imaging the dynamics of calcium in zebrafish. This is part of a bigger research on diabetes.

James Lin is 22 years old and in his second year of the master applied physics. He will be working on multi beam SEM and aberration corrections.

Stijn Karaçoban is a master student Nanobiology and for his MEP he will be working on predicting the location of fluorescence signal in electron microscopy images using the CNN CLEMnet. His supervisor is Jacob Hoogenboom.