Prof. Bernd Rieger joined Legatus Delft, a network which consists of 66 professors from the TU Delft. Aim of the network is to promote Delft as a city for organizing scientific conferences. Legatus does this in cooperation with the Delft Convention Center. Since the establishment in 2012 they already managed to get 100 conferences to Delft, which represents a revenue of roughly 26 million Euro (ICCA).

Fluorescence decay dynamics inside opaque, metal-coated nanocavities can be spatially resolved using excitation with a focused pulsed electron beam. The cover illustrates the launching of the electron pulses, their penetration of the metal coating, and their subsequent nanoscale excitation of embedded gain medium inside the cavity. As a consequence, the gain medium luminesces with a decay rate that depends strongly on the precise location inside and size of the cavity.

€2,7M has been awarded within the HollandPTC consortium to researchers of ErasmusMC, LUMC and TU Delft for joint proton therapy research.

Jacob Hoogenboom has taken over the CPO leadership from Pieter Kruit. Jacob has been with the group now for almost 10 years. During this time he has already caused the group to connect closer to new applications of microscopy and combinations with light microscopy and developments in chemistry and biology. As a group leader he will continue on this path, in collegial cooperation with the other principle investigators in the group.

Two groups of students, will start their minor project in Computational Science and Engineering at Charged Particle Optics. One group (4 students) will be coached by Kerim Arat, and the other group (3 students) will be coached by Luc van Kessel.

Gyllion Loozen and Jacob Caro have published an article in Optics Express on the capabilities of an on-chip dual-waveguide optical trap for stable trapping of extracellular vesicles (EVs). EVs are small, cell-derived particles that strongly attract attention as biomarkers for cancer.

Stef will do his MSc project with Kees Hagen on delivering proof on principle of a multi-beam splitter array and a deflector array in a scanning electron microscope. He will also critically review the design and see if it can be further optimized. And, in cooperation with Thermo Fisher, he is going to see whether such a beam splitter array can also be used for STEM.

NWO heeft een aanvraag voor het Center for Ultrasound Brain imaging at Erasmus MC (CUBE), waarbij ook de TU Delft betrokken is, goedgekeurd. De wetenschapsfinancier maakt een kleine 2,5 miljoen euro vrij voor de realisatie van CUBE.

Bingxin will work on engineering the substrate for particle displacements. Her supervisor is Paul Urbach.