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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December, 2023: Our research has been featured in the December edition of Delft Matters. Click below to read the full article: “Hersenkronkels”.

November 28, 2023: Franca auf der Heiden presented a poster and gave a talk at the workshop Women in Photonics in Jena, Germany. The workshop aims at connecting excellent female scientists at the beginning of their career with experts in photonics.

November 10, 2023: We have received a 20 k€ grant from the Delft Bioengineering Institute for our proposal “Disentangling the brain’s fiber network using 3D-nanofabrication and scattered light”, together with the lab from Angelo Accardo (TU Delft, 3mE). We will use the money to 3D-manufacture fiber networks to improve the interpretation of scattering signals and enable a reliable 3D-reconstruction.

November 9, 2023: Our group had a poster presentation and flash talk at the 5th BEI Meeting Neuroscience & Engineering at Theater De Veste in Delft.

October 22, 2023: Our lab participated in the Science Day 2023 of the TU Delft. The target group were children until 14 years. In our booth, we explained how the brain’s nerve fiber network can be determined with scattered light imaging, using a torch light. Click below for more images!

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October 10, 2023: Loes Ettema presented a poster at the NWO Biophysics in Veldhoven, the annual Dutch conference on physics of life, and gave a poster pitch.

September 18, 2023: Pim van Beeck and Francisco Salgado have joined the Menzel Lab. Pim will study fibrin networks in blood clots with ComSLI. Francisco will analyze scattering signals with machine learning approaches to improve the fiber reconstruction.

Pim did his Bachelor in Nanobiology at TU Delft and Erasmus MC (Netherlands), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Applied Physics at TU Delft. Francisco holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Porto (Portugal), and is currently enrolled in the Engineering Physics Master’s program, with a specialized focus on intelligent systems and data analysis.