Op de afgelopen Education Day is Freek Pols benoemd tot een van de TUD Education Fellows: De Delft Education Fellowship erkent en waardeert de inzet van docenten voor onderwijsinnovatie en stimuleert de impact van onderwijs-vernieuwing en -ontwikkeling. Freek's project, The road to scientific inquiry “Transforming lab courses” getiteld, is gericht op de samenwerking tussen de vier onderwijsprogramma's van onze faculteit met betrekking tot de inleidende practica.

William Kramer is doing his MSc end project with Dr. Joost van der Neut about using the Marchenko equations for eliminating multiple reflections from seismic and ultrasound data.

Sabiju Valiya Valappil will be working on the PostDoc project entitled "Integrated photonics-based sensors for Bragg peak localization using ultrasound," where the focus will be to develop a highly sensitive ultrasound sensor that possesses a broad operational frequency range for detecting ultrasound pulses from the interaction between the proton beam with the ultrasound contrast agent.

Lex Herrmann will investigate the affects on ultrashort laser pulses that create acoustic pulses inside metals. Together with the known literature, he will try to link theoretical predictions of the shape of the pulse inside the metal with the experimental measurements using interferometry. He will be supervised by Koen van Dongen.

Nuno is doing an Erasmus exchange program from Portugal for the next 6 months. His background is in Applied Physics and he is currently doing his Master's degree in the University of Porto. While in Delft, he will be doing a research project on neural network based parametric mapping under Dr. Qian’s supervision.

Min Park joined the ImPhys department as a lab manager. He will be working with Dr. David Maresca and Dion Terwiel on pH sensitive protein gas vesicles as ultrasound imaging contrasts. He has completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in biological sciences and bioengineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

In October 2022, Dr. Miriam Menzel has joined the Department of Imaging Physics as Assistant Professor. Her lab will exploit the scattering of visible light to resolve complex fiber structures in biological tissues.

De NWO heeft ruim 4,5 miljoen euro toegekend aan zes projecten via het Open Technologieprogramma, waaronder het SUSTAINER project van Gijsje Koenderink en het Digital Pathology in 3D project van Sjoerd Stallinga.

It seems reasonable that before students putting much effort in learning difficult things they need to see the reason why that knowledge is of value. In this study we try to create such an awareness pertaining to the value of scientific ‘rules’ in physics inquiry. Without much instruction, students (14-15y) investigate in the context of a new pirate movie the influence of a potential factor on the swing time, information crucial in designing a spectacular but safe stunt.

Maria Adamo joined ImPhys as project officer. She will be working for one day a week at ImPhys for Quantum Nanoscience for two days per week.