Daan Brinks has been awarded a grant in NWO’s XS scheme. In this proposal a new kind of protein is being investigated for its use as a voltage imaging contrast agent.

Marco Locarno joined Imphys as a PhD student in the lab of Daan Brinks. He will work on ultrafast spectroscopy of membrane proteins in their native cellular environments.

TU Delft has reached the age of 178 and celebrates this occasion with Delft primary school pupils. On Wednesday 29 January, 25 TU Delft professors gave a guest lecture to pupils from group 7 and 8 at various primary schools in Delft as part of Meet the Professor, an event organised by the WIJStad programme and the TU Delft 'Wetenschapsknooppunt'. On behalf of ImPhys Bernd Rieger participated.

Lixin Zhang, guest student in the groups of Pieter Kruit and Jacob Hoogenboom, has published two papers on pulsed sources for ultrafast electron microscopes (UEMs).

Natalie Kreuk will work on “Inversion of multi-channel acoustic measurements from a complex refractory wall”. Her supervisor is Eric Verschuur.

Dr. Miriam Menzel is a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. She is working in the group of Dr. Jeroen Kalkman on optical coherence and optical diffraction tomography measurements of brain tissue.

Djalma Simoes dos Santos will work on the ULTRA-X-TREME project (Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging for Extended Diagnosis and Treatment of Vascular Disease). Together with an experienced research group and industrial partners, he will develop a novel matrix transducer (with more than 8000 elements and integrated electronics) for 3D imaging of the carotid and the abdominal aorta with a high frame rate. Djalma will be working under the supervision of Prof.dr.ir. Nico de Jong and dr.ir. Martin Verweij.

Joao joined the Magnetic Resonance Systems Lab (Mars Lab). He will use basic physical principles to quantify electrical properties of the heart as a biomarker for tissue damage in response to radiation in order to detect subtle tissue damage and ultimately link tissue irradiation to radiotoxicity.

Coordinated by ICFO, a consortium of 11 partners gathered last week in Barcelona to kick-start this new initiative that aims, in coordination with industry and academia, to encourage young students and professionals to pursue careers in photonics. CARLA aims to boost the numbers of students and young researchers pursuing careers in photonics, to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship and to empower diversity.

Martijn Eppenga will work, together with Xin Meng on the implementation of machine learning in the analysis pipeline for the evolution project. His supervisor is Daan Brinks.