Freek Pols started as teacher/innovator of first year physics practical work on 1 March 2019. He will be responsible for all practical work in first year physics and has been given the task to innovate the current curriculum.

Martijn Nagtegaal started as a PhD student with the Department of Imaging Physics on 1 March 2019. He will work under supervision of Frans Vos on a project funded by Medical Delta.

Prof. Bernd Rieger will receive 1.5 million euros from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This Vici grant will enable him to develop an innovative line of research in the coming five years. Vici is one of the largest scientific grants for individuals in the Netherlands.

Nicolò Ceffa (postdoc) and Elizabeth Carroll have been awarded a grant from ZonMw to develop light sheet nanoscopy to detect and track the bioaccumulation of plastic nanoparticles in zebrafish.

The Face2Phase event is co-organized with the AOIM XII and will take place in Delft on 23-25 October 2019. It addresses imaging with phase information and covers topics such as lensless imaging, aberration retrieval, adaptive and active optics, ptychography, holography, tomography, phase retrieval and applications.

Emeritus professor Ted Young and Ing. Ronald Ligteringen of the department of Imaging Physics have released an interactive e-book on stochastic signal processing.

From 8 February until 30 March 2019, a photonics hackathon will be organized at the Science Centre every Friday (9h - 12h) and Saturday (12h - 17h). Anyone aged 14-64 who wants to turn ideas into great photonics projects using techniques such as 3D-printing and lasercutting is more than welcome to join. The hackathons are free of charge and participants will get up to €160,- in sponsored materials. Dr. Aurèle Adam of ImPhys is one of the organizers of this challenging and exciting outreach project.

We would like to welcome our new PhD Student Jos de Wit. Jos will work on the Pathoview project. His supervisor is Jeroen Kalkman.

On January 28th, 2019 Lena Filatova successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Assessing Brain Structure and Function with Diffusion-Weighted MRI: Application to Stroke".

ASML Agrees to Acquire Mapper Assets and Intends to Offer Continued Employment to Staff - ASML Intends to Take Over the Majority of Mapper Employees in Addition to the Company’s IP. Mapper Lithography is a startup company of ImPhys.