To strengthen the collaboration between Imphys and Erasmus MC, Daan Brinks has accepted a zero-hour position as principal investigator in the Molecular genetics department of Erasmus starting November 15.

Lauryna Šiaudinytė joined our group as Post-Doc. She will work on "Coherent Fourier scatterometry for reconstruction of subwavelength features of printed nanostructures". Her supervisor is Paul Urbach.

Leo Hoogerbrugge started 1 November as a PhD student within the Delphi Consortium project. He will focus on the theoretical aspects of the seismic inversion framework that is currently used within Delphi and make extensions to heterogeneous media and including elastic effects. His supervisor is Eric Verschuur.

Prof. Bernd Rieger joined Legatus Delft, a network which consists of 66 professors from the TU Delft. Aim of the network is to promote Delft as a city for organizing scientific conferences. Legatus does this in cooperation with the Delft Convention Center. Since the establishment in 2012 they already managed to get 100 conferences to Delft, which represents a revenue of roughly 26 million Euro (ICCA).

Fluorescence decay dynamics inside opaque, metal-coated nanocavities can be spatially resolved using excitation with a focused pulsed electron beam. The cover illustrates the launching of the electron pulses, their penetration of the metal coating, and their subsequent nanoscale excitation of embedded gain medium inside the cavity. As a consequence, the gain medium luminesces with a decay rate that depends strongly on the precise location inside and size of the cavity.

€2,7M has been awarded within the HollandPTC consortium to researchers of ErasmusMC, LUMC and TU Delft for joint proton therapy research.

Jacob Hoogenboom has taken over the CPO leadership from Pieter Kruit. Jacob has been with the group now for almost 10 years. During this time he has already caused the group to connect closer to new applications of microscopy and combinations with light microscopy and developments in chemistry and biology. As a group leader he will continue on this path, in collegial cooperation with the other principle investigators in the group.

Two groups of students, will start their minor project in Computational Science and Engineering at Charged Particle Optics. One group (4 students) will be coached by Kerim Arat, and the other group (3 students) will be coached by Luc van Kessel.

Gyllion Loozen and Jacob Caro have published an article in Optics Express on the capabilities of an on-chip dual-waveguide optical trap for stable trapping of extracellular vesicles (EVs). EVs are small, cell-derived particles that strongly attract attention as biomarkers for cancer.