Nicolette Meerstadt is the new Deputy Head of Department for Imaging Physics. She succeeds Liesbeth Secker, who is now Deputy Head of Department at RST.

Are you interested in a multi-disciplinary project, develop new sensors and get your hands “dirty”” in experiments and theory? Contact us!

We would like to welcome a new guest, MSc student Vincent Baas. His supervisors are Jeroen Kalkman and Jelle van der Horst.

Dr. Sjoerd Stallinga has been appointed as interim chairman of the Imaging Physics department (ImPhys) per 1 March 2018.

On February 16, 2018 Joor Arkesteijn successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Application of Sophisticated Models to Conventional Diffusion-Weighted MRI Data”

Mathijs Garming joined ImPhys as a PhD student, working under the supervision of Jacob Hoogenboom. Mathijs will work on ultrafast photon-pump electron-probe microscopy and its application for the investigation of excited state carrier diffusion in 2D and other nanomaterials.

If photonics is to meet the needs of a new generation of applications, problems will need to be addressed through better design and modelling. The EU-funded ADOPSYS project approached this challenge as much with a skills-based answer, as a technical one.

In the recently published book Beelden zonder weerga (‘Unparalleled Images’), biochemist Ton van Helvoort and Dirk van Delft, director of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, describe the invention and development of the electron microscope.

Teun Huijben has joined the lab of Daan Brinks for his internship as part of the Nanobiology program. He will work on the creation of a multimodal two-photon microscope, suitable for voltage imaging.