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.

Peter Speets will work on a method to measure the composition and particle size distribution of a turbid sample using optical coherence tomography (OCT). His supervisor is Jeroen Kalkman.

Henk van den Brink will work on the project: ‘Areal shot record technology for efficient inversion’. His supervisor is Eric Verschuur.

Sebastian Weingärtner was awarded a ZonMw OffRoad grant. This grant scheme funds out of the box proposals in medical research. In this project we will develop novel MRI scan techniques to detect remodeling in the esophagus, before it can turn into cancer.

Daan Brinks has been awarded a grant in NWO’s XS scheme. In this proposal a new kind of protein is being investigated for its use as a voltage imaging contrast agent.

Marco Locarno joined Imphys as a PhD student in the lab of Daan Brinks. He will work on ultrafast spectroscopy of membrane proteins in their native cellular environments.