Outreach

We believe it is important to promote public awareness (and understanding) of science and make informal contributions to science education. Therefore we work on outreach at many levels, e.g. supporting high school teachers, organizing conferences, supporting the Science Museum of the university, providing Maker Labs with optical equipment, sustaining field labs and providing 3D printing support.

Photonics Explorer Kit

We are organisor/distributor for a demonstration optics kit providing high schools with modern optical experiments.

Women in Photonics NL

We are active in the organization of events and networking to help young women to pursue a career in photonics (education, research or industry).

E-books/Videos

Interactive e-book on stochastic signal processing

Em. Professor Ted Young & Ing. Ronald Ligteringen of ImPhys have released an interactive e-book on stochastic signal processing. It is aimed at 3rd & 4th year students, as well as graduate students who have followed introductory courses in signal processing & probability theory.

Video 350 years of light microscopy in Delft

This animation shows 350 years of light microscopy history. From the earliest days of van Leeuwenhoek to the Nobel prize in 2014 and current developments at TU Delft.

YouTube lectures

High-resolution imaging

YouTube lectures on High-resolution Imaging

Elektriciteit & Magnetisme

YouTube lectures on Elektriciteit & Magnetisme

Software

Science Day

About 4000 people visited the Science Day; the target group were children until 14 years. The Menzel Lab showed a demo measurement of scattered light imaging on brain tissue sections, and how the brain's nerve fiber network can be determined using a simple torch light.

Van Leeuwenhoeklezing

- Only in Dutch -

Rond het jaar 1675 stond Antoni van Leeuwenhoek bij de Berkelse plas water door zijn microscoop te bekijken en zag “kleine dierkens” – een zwerm van minuscule diertjes, en zoals we nu weten moeten dat bacteriën geweest zijn. Van Leeuwenhoek werd hiermee de grondlegger van de microbiologie. Met zijn zelf gebouwde microscopen was van Leeuwenhoek zijn tijd ver vooruit, maar het mag duidelijk zijn dat we nu in de 21e eeuw een reuze stap verder zijn met het kijken naar de microkosmos. Vandaag de dag kunnen we in cellen kijken om de biochemische basis van het leven te bestuderen. De combinatie van moderne lichtmicroscopen, lichtgevende moleculen en minstens zo belangrijk, slimme computer algoritmen stellen ons in staat om moleculaire interactie waar te nemen op lengte schalen die veel kleiner zijn dan de golflengte van het licht.

CARLA NL Edition

On the 31 May – 1 June, we have welcomed more than 100 participants (bachelor, master, phd postdocs) from all over the Netherlands for our first CARLA Camp. During two days, these young minds discovered the different career paths possible in photonics: the first day at TUDelft, they followed various presentations about career opportunities in academia with 16 young and senior researchers in various fields of photonics coming from different universities and institutes. The second day at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, we have invited 10 companies to deliver inspirational speeches about photonics in industry followed by a visit at ASML in Veldhoven.

Meet the Professor

Each year TU Delft professors are giving guest lectures 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'.