On October 2nd Ying Tang succesfully defended his PhD thesis "Applications of Optical Birefringe: with Natural-Matrials and Meta-Materials".

From 26 to 28 August, Sjoerd Stallinga and Bernd Rieger from the department of Imaging Physics hosted the 9th Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Symposium, bringing together scientists working in the field of single-molecule super-resolution imaging.

Five TU Delft researchers have been selected to receive an ERC Starting Grant. One of these researchers works at ImPhys. The grant (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) is intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work.

The paper of Boling Ouyang: “Integrated photonics interferometric interrogator for a ring-resonator ultrasound sensor” has been published on Optics Express.

Tian Zhang's paper "A pharmacokinetic model including arrival time for two inputs and compensating for varying applied flip-angle in dynamic gadoxetic acid-enhanced MR imaging" is published in PLOS ONE.

Treatment with methylphenidate appears to affect specific tracts in brain white matter in boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder according to this study published in the journal Radiology.

ImPhys Phd’s Maurice Krielaart and Ryan Lane have won poster prizes at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2019 conference in Portland (USA)

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded nearly three million euros to seven recently appointed researchers in physics and chemistry through the START-UP programme. Both David Maresca and Sebastian Weingärtner have been awarded with a grant

In case you missed the inaugurational speech of Prof Sjoerd Stallinga, the recorded speech 'Zichtbaar/Onzichtbaar' can be watched on collegerama.

His lab will be working on the development of novel methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to enable quantitative depiction of pathologies in-vivo.