April 2025 – Stephanie joins our team as a BSc student. Welcome Stephanie!
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March 2025 – Maurits joins our team as a MSc student, to study the refractive index of nanolenses. Welcome Maurits!
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January 2025 - Marlous visits NWO Physics in Veldhoven, chairing the parallel session ‘Statistic Physics & Soft Condensed Matter’.
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December 2024 - Koen and Cas attend NWO Chains in Veldhoven. Cas presented a poster about his MSc work!
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December 2024 - The team attend the Lustrum Symposium (35th Anniversary) of the Debye Institute for nanomaterials Science; a lovely day to hear about different work going on in the Institute! Marlous spoke about our team's work.
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October 2024 - Koen presented a soundbite at the 36th Soft Matter Meeting in Eindhoven. Thank you to the organisers for the great program and wonderful day!
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September 2024 - Koen visits the ECIS conference in Copenhagen, Denmark! FCC PI Ben Erné gave a keynote lecture, and the ECIS Overbeek medal was awarded to Prof. R. Strey.
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September 2024 - Marlous visits ECSBM in Lodz, Poland. She was invited to speak on Raman micro-spectroscopy of cells. The conference was extremely well-organized with exciting research!
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August 2024 – The team attend the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the SCM group (Utrecht University). It was a wonderful event with many familiar faces! Marlous gave a talk about her recent research.
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July 2024 - Marlous visits ICORS2024 in Rome where she was invited to speak on Raman micro-spectroscopy of cells and tissues.
Meeting up with Nanophotonics colleagues Elle and Sara too!
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June 2024 - Marlous' work “Raman micro-spectroscopy reveals the spatial distribution of fumarate in cells and tissues” was published in Nature Communications. Thank you to all co-authors!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49403-w
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June 2024 – Quinten and Noa completed their second-year research project in our team!
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May 2024 - We published a Review paper in Nature Reviews Chemistry: “Spearheading a new era in complex colloid synthesis with TPM and other silanes” together with Prof. Roel Dullens and Prof. Stefano Sacanna.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49403-w
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June 2024 – The FCC lab holds its annual FCC lab retreat at Dom Under and Chi Chi golf!