As of May 2021, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh has been appointed as assistant professor in Optics research group. Dr. Esmaeil Zadeh has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed journal papers and has more than ten years of experience on the design, nano-fabrication, and characterization of photonic devices, superconducting detectors and the integration of semiconducting devices in photonic structures.

Last week Paul Urbach participated in the German-Dutch Chamber of Commerce (DNHK) meeting with the Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. They spoke to 18 German and Dutch companies, knowledge institutions and umbrella organizations about German-Dutch economic relations.

Huangcheng Shangguan came from China and graduated from Shenzhen University with a Master’s degree in 2021, majoring in Optics Engineering. He joined ImPhys to pursue his PhD degree under the supervision of Jeroen Kalkman and Paul Urbach. He will be doing research on 3D and high-speed imaging of Integrated Circuits.

Published today in Nature Communications a study about finding heterogeneity in SMLM data. Particle fusion for single molecule localization microscopy improves signal-to-noise ratio and overcomes underlabeling, but ignores structural heterogeneity or conformational variability. This study presents a-priori knowledge-free unsupervised classification of structurally different particles employing the Bhattacharya cost function as dissimilarity metric.

Academic programmes often produce specialists, each highly skilled in their own discipline but not necessarily well-prepared for a career in multidisciplinary companies. At Applied Sciences in Delft and Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management, however, they have been teaching their students for over a decade how to collaborate with people who think differently.

This week a study appeared in Nature Methods on the impact of noise on Structured Illumination Microscopy image reconstructions, and how this knowledge helps to make these reconstructions less sensitive to artefacts as well as to eliminate arbitrary user set parameters. The work was done by Carlas Smith, Kees Hagen, Jacob Hoogenboom, and Sjoerd Stallinga together with PhD-students and collaborators in Erasmus Medical Center and Oxford.

Together with colleagues from other institutions, Elizabeth Carroll has won a grant of up to 750,000 euros in the ZonMw Open Competition. The team will investigate stress in insulin-producing cells.

Eric Verschuur was elected in 2006 as the first lecturer for the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Education Tour, with 15 lectures in a year throughout Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Russia. Since then he conducts the course 2-3 times a year throughout the whole world.

For the first time, Delft researchers have succeeded in making a three-dimensional image of a cellular component using light. The component in question is the nuclear pore complex: tunnels that facilitate traffic to and from the cell nucleus. Studying cell components in 3D can help to determine the cause of various diseases, among other things. The researchers have published their findings in Nature Communications.

How does our brain work? An international team of researchers, including lead author Daan Brinks of TU Delft, has taken another step towards answering that question. They have created a new tool that allows them to image electrical signals in brains with an unprecedented combination of precision, resolution, sensitivity, and depth.