Amber Heijdra is currently doing the master Biomedical Engineering at TU Delft. For her master thesis she will focus on predicting sarcomere mutations using radiomics at the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam.

Freek Pols published an article: The sound of music: determining Young's modulus using a guitar string in the journal Physics Education, a journal meant for physics teachers at various educational levels.

On Friday 26th of March, 14 pre-University students finished the pre-University on Campus Track. Freek Pols designed and taught one of the tracks. The students learned about data-analysis and error propagation, devised and conducted an experiment. They concluded the track with a presentation on their results.

Researchers at TU Delft have expanded upon a clever trick that increases the speed of electron microscope imaging by a factor of twenty. A simple adjustment is all that is needed: applying a voltage to the specimen holder. Through this simple intervention, a specimen that the electron microscope would normally take a week to image can now be inspected in a single night or one working day.

The project proposal POLight (Pushing bOundaries of nanometrology by Light) coordinated by Omar El Gawhary has been selected for funding. The project, a collaboration among 15 partners in Europe, is expected to start in June 2021 and will receive 1.8M€ direct funding from the EU and around 1M€ of national funding from the different participating countries.

An international team of scientists that includes ImPhys researcher David Maresca published an article in Neuron today demonstrating decoding of movement intentions in the brain using ultrasound. The work shows great promises for the development of less invasive brain-machine interfaces.

Former ImPhys BEP student Dino Mocking has received a DIA stipend from the Germany Institute at the University of Amsterdam. With the stipend, Dino will continue his studies at the Technical University in Munich, Germany where he will follow the MSc Applied and Engineering Physics.

The Faculty of Applied Sciences has attracted four talented international researchers through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships programme of the European Union. The new Fellows are: Anders Barth (Bionanoscience), Baptiste Heiles (Imaging Physics), Josep Ingla-Aynés (Quantum Nanoscience) and José Palomo Jiménez (Chemical Engineering).

Fatemeh Ebadi joined us a PhD student. She will work on automatic camera adjustments for live television under supervision of Bernd Rieger.

The Introduction to Charged Particle Optics course teaches students the basic principles and design considerations of electron and ion beam machines, such as microscopes and lithography machines. The elective course is already for a long time part of the TUD MSc program. Taking the opportunity of an online course, main instructor Ali Mohammadi Gheidari now decided to advertise the course also outside TU Delft, with great success. Interest in the course increased fourfold.