Onderzoekers van de TU Delft hebben twee bestaande technieken binnen de superresolutie-microscopie gecombineerd tot een nieuwe methode. Veel experts zagen het combineren van de technieken als iets dat technisch onmogelijk was. Met de nieuwe, gecombineerde methode kunnen onderzoekers de minuscule onderdelen van levende cellen beter dan ooit in beeld brengen. Dat kan onder meer leiden tot nieuwe inzichten in de gezondheidszorg.

Joseph Braat, professor emeritus ImPhys receives the Holst award medal from TU/e Rector Frank Baaijens. The Holst Memorial Lecture Award Committee nominates prof.dr.ir. Joseph Braat for his important contributions in the field of Imaging Optics. Joseph Braat provided essential contributions that enabled, but reach far beyond optical recording (e.g. CD, DVD).

Wenxiu Wang will be working in the group of Bernd Rieger on computational microscopy for her PhD study. She got her Master's degree in Photonics in Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in Germany.

The Dutch Optics Centre (DOC) organized a trip for MSc students to introduce them to the joint master track “Optical Imaging”. In this master track students have the possibility to study abroad during their second year at the Abbe School of Photonics in Jena.

How do we read, write and block activity in neurons? Is it possible to design specific neural tissues with particular 3D and ion channel make-up? These are only two of the questions that live among the group of close to thirty neuroscience enthusiasts who signed up for the first meeting on Delft Neuroscience and Engineering.

The coordination role of the Delphi consortium, headed by Dr. Eric Verschuur, has been officially transferred on November 15th from TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) to TU Delft. In addition to this transition, a supervisory board has been established consisting of the Deans of Applied Sciences (TNW) and Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CiTG) and one representative of TNO.

Leon van der Graaff and Sjoerd Stallinga have recently published a paper in Biomedical Optics Express on “Multi-line fluorescence scanning microscope for multi-focal imaging with unlimited field of view”. The paper proposes a new optical design for laser illumination of large area fluorescent tissue slides, in which Point Spread Function engineering using diffractive optics is used to create a set of parallel scan lines that focus at different depths inside the sample.

The master student (m/f) will work together in a small team of scientists to select the one or two most promising approaches to retrieve the aberrations of a SEM. Some theory needs to be worked out and translated into an experimental plan. For instance, to define the conditions to record distorted SEM images from which the aberrations can be retrieved. And, of course, (s)he will get trained how to operate a state-of-the-art SEM independently.

Two of our most recent projects 4TU ‘High Tech for a Sustainable Future' and the NWA-ORC ProtonBubble project: ‘Optoacoustic sensor and ultrasonic microbubbles for dosimetry in proton therapy’, have now started officially. If you are interested to join this project as a PostDoc or Promovendus, please contact Prof Nico de Jong or David Maresca.

Teun Huijben is in the last year of his double master degree Nanobiology and Biomedical Engineering. For the next 10 months, he will be working in the group of Bernd Rieger on multi-state classification in single-particle averaging for his Master thesis.