July 1, 2023: Loes Ettema has joined the Menzel Lab. She will develop dedicated tissue preparation and measurement protocols for Computational Scattered Light Imaging, allowing to disentangle densely interwoven fiber networks - not only in the brain, but also in other fibrous tissue samples containing muscle or collagen fibers.

Loes received her Bachelor’s degree in Medical Natural Sciences and her Master’s degree in Biomedical Technology and Physics, both at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She worked in the Biophotonics and Medical Imaging group, supervised by Dr. Freek Ariese and Prof. dr. Marloes Groot, where she performed label-free Raman and fluorescence imaging on Alzheimer’s diseased brain tissues, and used second harmonic generation microscopy to image axon-like structures in differentiated cell cultures.

June 10, 2023: Our work has been featured in the science podcast Wetenshap Vandaag from BNR Nieuwsradio.

Click below to listen to the episode: “Klitten van zenuwvezels in de hersenen ontwarren”.

June 6, 2023: Our work has been featured in a news article by TU Delft.

Read here the full Press Release.

May 11, 2023: We have published a paper in eLife. Thanks to our collaborators at the Stanford School of Medicine and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for the great collaboration!

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April 26, 2023: Franca auf der Heiden and Jan A. Reuter gave a talk at the OPTICA Biophotonics Congress in Vancouver about the newest developments of computational scattered light imaging (papers BW1B.3 and BW1B.6).

March 1, 2023: Hamed Abbasi has joined the Menzel Lab. He will explore alternative tissue types and clinical applications of computational scattered light imaging.

Hamed received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Since 2021, he has been working as postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam on photonics-guided surgery, where he combines fluorescence-guided surgery and Raman spectroscopy to improve the surgical removal of oral cancer.

February 1, 2023: Roman Pavelkin has joined the Menzel Lab. He will work on an optimized reconstruction of nerve fiber pathways in brain tissue by improving the illumination strategy of computational scattered light imaging.

Roman does his diploma internship in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s program “Photonics for Security, Reliability, and Safety”. The program combines photonics approaches with signal processing and machine learning.

October 1, 2022: Miriam has joined the Department of Imaging Physics at TU Delft as Assistant Professor.

Become part of the new Menzel Lab and apply for a PhD/PostDoc position or a student project. Check out our open positions!

September 28, 2022: We received a 235 k€ Research Grant from the Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft (DFG).

The funded project aims at developing a high-throughput Scattering Polarimeter for studying the connectivity of whole brain volumes.

May 31, 2022: Miriam Menzel received the Delft Technology Fellowship to establish her own research program at TU Delft.

The Delft Technology Fellowship offers high-profile, tenure-track positions to outstanding female academic researchers in research themes in which the faculties of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) want to be strengthened.