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. 

Martin Verweij joined the trade mission to India (May 22-25). Accompanied by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the delegation visited Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The mission focused on maritime trade, agrifood, ICT, life sciences & health, and smart cities.

Eric Verschuur provided support to the Dutch tv-program "De Proefkeuken". They have visited the anechoic chamber for their program on how to build a speaker.

A recently accepted paper in Nano Letters by ImPhys researchers Robert Moerland, Gerward Weppelman, Marijke Scotuzzi, and Jacob Hoogenboom was mentioned in the news forum of tech-website Tweakers. In the publication our ImPhys colleagues use pulsed beams of electrons instead of photons to probe the light-matter coupling inside nanoscale lasers.

Better insight into white matter (WM) alterations after stroke onset could help to understand the underlying recovery mechanisms and improve future interventions. MR diffusion imaging enables to assess such changes. The goal was to investigate the relation of WM diffusion characteristics derived from diffusion models of increasing complexity with the motor function of the upper limb. Moreover, the researchers aimed to evaluate the variation of such characteristics across different WM structures of chronic stroke patients in comparison to healthy subjects.