In the High Tech Systems and Materials program 2019 the project NanoRheoOCT has been granted to Dr. Jeroen Kalkman. This project is a collaboration between University Utrecht and a commercial partner. The researchers in this proposal develop a novel type of optical sensor based on optical coherence tomography to quantify the motion and flow of very small particles (macromolecules and nanoparticles).

We would like to welcome our new MSc student Anish Mukherjee. He will work on the project: ‘Analysing Single-Molecule Emission Patterns using Deep Learning’. Sjoerd Stallinga, Bernd Rieger and Rasmus Thorsen will be his supervisors.

Nico de Jong (ImPhys) tells on the Dutch radiostation NPO Radio 1 about ultrasound and its broad variety of applications.

Why would you want to share your microscopy data? If microscopy data were more findable and accessible it could facilitate ground-breaking discoveries! Bernd Rieger (ImPhys) and Katy Wolstencroft (Leiden University) talked about this on the 10th of December and present their plans for creating a national infrastructure for advanced light microscopy in the life sciences.

A new super-resolution microscopy technique has been published with Nature Methods this week The work is a TNW/3mE collaboration between Jelmer Cnossen, Taylor Hinsdale, Rasmus Thorsen, Carlas Smith, Bernd Rieger, and Sjoerd Stallinga, with external partners in Utrecht and Munchen. The paper is called “'Localization microscopy at doubled precision with patterned illumination” and is about the use of fine periodic illumination patterns for a better resolution in single-molecule based super-resolution.

The paper "Multimode Fiber Coupled Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors with High Detection Efficiency and Time Resolution" of the ImPhys Optics group has been chosen as Editor's Pick of the Applied Optics magazine.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have combined two existing super-resolution microscopy techniques to create a new method. Many experts thought that combining these techniques was not technically possible. The new, combined method enables researchers to visualize the tiny components of living cells better than ever before. Among other things, this can lead to new insights for healthcare.

Joseph Braat, professor emeritus ImPhs receives the Holst award medal from TU/e Rector Frank Baaijens. The Holst Memorial Lecture Award Committee nominates prof.dr.ir. Joseph Braat for his important contributions in the field of Imaging Optics. Joseph Braat provided essential contributions that enabled, but reach far beyond optical recording (e.g. CD, DVD).

Wenxiu Wang will be working in the group of Bernd Rieger on computational microscopy for her PhD study. She got her Master's degree in Photonics in Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in Germany.

The Dutch Optics Centre (DOC) organized a trip for MSc students to introduce them to the joint master track “Optical Imaging”. In this master track students have the possibility to study abroad during their second year at the Abbe School of Photonics in Jena.