October 15, 2024: Mark Vermeulen has joined the Menzel Lab as PhD student. He will focus on the theoretical analysis and image processing of scattering signals. Specifically, he will work on developing a model for the reliability of reconstructed fiber orientations. He will also investigate various ways to retrieve more information from the scattering patterns. This includes using machine learning to classify tissue types, and using multi-wavelength measurements to estimate fiber diameters.

Mark studied Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at the TU Delft, receiving his bachelor’s degrees in 2022. His master’s in Applied Physics, also at the TU Delft, focused on medical imaging and MRI physics.

October 10, 2024: The Medical Delta program Cancer diagnostics for sustainable health care (CARES) has been launched, of which Miriam Menzel is one of the program leaders. CARES is a transdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from TU Delft, Erasmus MC, LUMC, and The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

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October 7, 2024: Loes Ettema gave a presentation at the NWO Biophysics in Veldhoven, the annual Dutch conference on physics of life, about visualizing collagen fiber networks in bone and tendon with computational scattered light imaging.

September 19, 2024: Loes Ettema has won the “Best Poster Presentation” at the Dutch Photonics Event 2024 in The Hague.

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August & September, 2024: Two new Master students – Vincent den Ronden and Ines Suarez Rodriguez – and two new Bachelor students – Ruben Mak and Wester Stienstra – have joined the Menzel Lab. Vincent, Wester, and Ruben are students of the Applied Physics program at TU Delft. Ines is a guest student of Biomedical Engineering from the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Vincent will study the scattering of polarized light. Ines will analyze the cross-linking of fibers in different tissues (nerve, collagen, muscle). Wester will explore machine learning approaches to improve the interpretation of scattering signals. Ruben will continue working on the 3D-nanoprinting project.

May & June, 2024: Govert Leijdens and Puck Dekkers have joined the Menzel Lab. They are both students of the Applied Physics Bachelor’s program at TU Delft and will work on their end projects.

Govert will work on integrating ComSLI into an off-the-shelf polarization microscope. Puck will continue working on the 3D-nanoprinting project for improved fiber reconstruction with ComSLI.

April 11, 2024: Simon van Staalduine and Pim van Beeck presented posters at the BioDay organized by the Delft Bioengineering Institute.

April 6-11, 2024: Hamed Abbasi gave a talk at the SPIE Photonics Europe conference in Strasbourg, and Loes Ettema presented a poster.

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February 15, 2024: Irene Santos Mayo has joined the Menzel Lab. Irene is a Bachelor’s student in Nanobiology and will explore 3D-nanoprinting for improved fiber reconstruction with ComSLI. The Bachelor’s end project is part of the BEI Research Project in collaboration with Angelo Accardo’s lab at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Delft.

January 27, 2024: Franca auf der Heiden and Miriam Menzel gave a talk at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco - the world’s largest biomedical optics and photonics event.

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