An NWO-LIFT grant has been awarded to a consortium of researchers including Elizabeth Carroll and Jacob Hoogenboom from ImPhys. In the consortium, further comprising UMC Groningen and ImPhys spin-off Delmic BV, novel microscopy techniques will be used to better visualize and understand structural/functional properties in medical biology, and to create tissue atlases.

"My research group is mainly experimental, combining optics and biology, so certainly our work is altered a lot right now. I see students feeling grief that they will not be able to achieve all of their original BEP/MEP goals.

Read about David Maresca, one of the 'Rising Stars' of the Delft Health Initiative. Maresca is setting up his own lab at ImPhys. He will focus on biomolecular ultrasound imaging.

Jos van Rooij, PhD student in the group of Jeroen Kalkman, published a paper on polarization contrast optical diffraction tomography (ODT) in a recent issue of Biomedical Optics Express. The paper builds on earlier work on large scale high sensitivity ODT where a zebrafish larva was imaged in phase contrast.

On March 17th, 2020 Hamidreza Heydarian successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Particle fusion in localization microscopy".

Ten pre-University students (5 VWO) started on March 6th the pre-University on Campus Track: Determining g. In four sessions of 4 hours the students will determine the gravitational constant within 1% of the literature value using a free-fall experiment.

Dr Gunasekar, staff scientist at University of Strathclyde and expert in electron backscatter and electron channeling detection, has received a short-term visit grant from the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance to visit the lab of Jacob Hoogenboom at ImPhys this summer.

Jacob Hoogenboom has received a ZonMW Enabling Technologies grant to collaborate with the University Medical Center in Groningen to optimize biological sample preparation for the novel multi-beam SEM that is currently being developed by a public-private partnership including ImPhys.

Dion Terwiel recently graduated Life Science and Technology from the University of Technology in Delft. He subsequently spent 9 months working as a process development technologist in a start-up where Dion worked on lignocellulose feedstocks for bioethanol production. Dion will join David Maresca's group in the development of a biomolecular ultrasound pH sensor based on acoustic reporter proteins (gas vesicles).

Paulina Siuryte is a recent physics graduate from University in Surrey, UK. During her research year placement, she has worked with gamma-ray spectroscopy group in TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada). Her project in TU Delft will be focused on researching new imaging biomarkers with Quantitative MRI. Her supervisor is Sebastian Weingärtner.