The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO , has awarded almost 3 million euros to seven recently appointed principal investigators in physics and chemistry. One of the laureates of these so-called ‘START-UP’ grants is Daan Brinks.

The EOS biennial Meeting will be held in Delft from 8-12 October, where the latest results in optics and photonics research will be presented. Netherlands is the hot spot for photonics in Europe and the strong optics research and industry in Delft makes it a perfect location to hold the upcoming symposium.

NWO heeft de Veni-laureaten voor 2018 bekendgemaakt. Daaronder zijn vier wetenschappers van de faculteit Technische Natuurwetenschappen: Jeremy Brown (RST), Zoltán Perkó (RST), Georgy Filonenko (ChemE) en Carlas Smith (ImPhys). De Veni’s zijn bedoeld om gepromoveerde onderzoekers gedurende drie jaar hun ideeën verder te laten ontwikkelen.

We welcome Erasmus student Andrei Stefancu, Medical Physics student from Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. During his summer research internship he will work on optical tomographic imaging of tissue biopsies. His supervisors are Jos van Rooij and Jeroen Kalkman.

The publication entitled "Ray-based method for simulating cascaded diffraction in high NA systems", published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A, has been highlighted as an Editor's Pick.

Xin Meng is joining the lab of Daan Brinks as a PhD student. He'll work on instrument and method development for new voltage imaging modalities.

On June 14th, 2018 Jelle van der Horst successfully defended his PhD thesis on “High-resolution deep-tissue quantitative optical tomography”

This technique can make small creatures and biopsies transparent. The unique optics developed by PhD candidate Jelle van der Horst can look through 4 mm of tissue with infrared light.

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Rik Vos a Vidi grant worth EUR 800,000. A Vidi grant enables the researchers to set up their own research group to develop their own innovative line of research.