Qiangrui Dong joined the Brinks Lab as PhD student. She majored in neuroscience during her master programme. Qiangrui will be working on a neuroscience-related project, in which we are trying to develop tools to visualize synaptic dynamics with nanoscopic optogenetics. She will work under supervision of Daan Brinks.

Isabel Droste joined ImPhys as of the 1st of January 2022. Her research will focus on Single Molecule Localization Microscopy, under supervision of Bernd Rieger and Sjoerd Stallinga. Isabel has a background in applied mathematics, specifically scientific computing and inverse problems. She finished a double bachelor in Mathematics and Earth Sciences and a master in Mathematics at Utrecht University.

Azin Karimzadanzabi finished her bachelor's and master's in civil engineering and geophysics from Iran. After that, she joined the University of Twente for a PDEng in 2019, working on practical aspects of ground penetrating radar (GPR) to develop a protocol to assess the GPR for industrial work. Her PhD project @ImPhys is on seismic imaging, under the supervision of Dr. Eric Verschuur.

Our paper: "Detecting telecom single photons with (99.5+0.5⎯2.07)% system detection efficiency and high time resolution" is the most downloaded paper in APL photonics in 2021. The most read Editor’s Picks from 2021 have been downloaded over 1,500+ times since publishing.

Transistors used in computer chips have now reached the tiny scale of mere nanometres, yet chips manufacturers still lack the optical power to study this new generation of chips. Researchers from TU Delft have built a lensless microscope to make an image at the scale of 200 nanometres. With further refining of this technique the researchers expect to bring images of nanoscale transistors within their grasp in the next two years.

At Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November the first Annual Meeting of the Dutch Inverse Problems Community was held at the Conference hotel “De Werelt”, magically situated in the forest around Lunteren (a village between Utrecht and Arnhem). Scientist from various research groups at Dutch universities that are working on inverse problems were gathering, where TU Delft was represented by people from the geoscience, applied physics and applied mathematics departments.

Bart de Koning will join ImPhys per December 1st, 2021. He is a MSc student in Applied Mathematics and Bart will be doing his master thesis under supervision of Aurèle Adam. He will be designing freeform optics for multiple source illumination with AI.

Martijn Nagtegaal, PhD student @ImPhys participated in the "Hoezo? Show!". The Hoe?Zo! Show is an interactive science game show in which young scientists answer questions from curious children live on stage in a race against time. Will the scientists be able to answer children's questions quickly enough? Or do the children's questions prove too difficult for these clever minds?

The Delft Health Initiative (DHI) brings researchers together who are involved in health research and innovation, in order to focus TU Delft expertise and to contribute to pioneering health technologies within relevant (inter)national research programs. DHI has rewarded Qian Tao with a grant of € 20.000 euro for her submission: 'Not Created Equal: Visualizing Gender Differences in Population-based Screening Trial on Cardiovascular Disease (ROBINSCA)'. Her project has been judged best in the category CardioTech.

On 25 & 26 November 2021 the first annual meeting of the Dutch inverse problems community will be held. Jeroen Kalkman is one of the invited speakers and he will talk about imaging challenges in optical tomography. Eric Verschuur and Koen van Dongen are members of the organizing committee.