Per February 2022, Omar El Gawhary, from the Optics group of ImPhys, has been appointed as member of the Council of Experts on National Measurement Standards (Raad van deskundigen van de nationale meetstandaarden).

Last week we received our trainings by Delmic on the new FAST-EM, over 20-years long TU Delft developments culminating in an exciting new microscope. The FAST-EM was developed together with TU Delft and other industry partners; Technolution and Thermo Fisher Scientific. This microscope is able to acquire high resolution images of biological specimens much quicker than previously possible, which could be considered a big milestone for our research field.

Hannah will be doing her master thesis with Frans Vos, in collaboration with the LUMC in Leiden. She will be working on the correction of B0 inhomogeneities on a low field (50 mT) scanner using B0 mapping.

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 die worden gebruikt in computerchips hebben nu de minuscule schaal van nanometers bereikt, maar chipsfabrikanten beschikken nog steeds niet over het optische vermogen om deze nieuwe generatie chips te bestuderen. Onderzoekers van de TU Delft hebben een lensloze microscoop gebouwd die een beeld maakt op een schaal van 200 nanometer. Met verdere verfijning van deze techniek kunnen de onderzoekers naar verwachting in de komende twee jaar transistors op nanoschaal in beeld brengen.

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.