We are pleased to announce that Mia Kvåle Løvmo, PhD student in the Subproject Imaging of Trapped Particles, defended her PhD thesis with the title “Rotational manipulation of trapped biological samples in acoustofluidic platforms for tomography” on 10 July 2024, and passed with distinction.
Mia’s doctoral study was supervised by Monika Ritsch-Marte, the principal investigator of the Subproject Imaging of Trapped Particles and the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck. Congratulations from the SFB colleagues!
From 1 to 5 July, the 16th SFB internal meeting took place at a beautiful venue of Lake Wolfgangsee in Strobl. This annual summer meeting offers SFB members a valuable opportunity to share recent progress in the eight different projects and discuss future research directions. We were honored to host three internationally renowned professors as invited speakers – Markus Grasmair, John Schotland, and Ivo Ihrke – as well as early-career researchers Andrea Aspri and Alina Boecker. Researchers and PhD students from Austrian institutions of excellence (RICAM, University of Vienna) and Germany also participated in the meeting.
Group picture at Wolfgangsee.
Katja and Simon, on behalf of the SFB members, presenting gifts to professor Otmar Scherzer.
During the event, we celebrated the 60th birthday of the SFB Speaker, Professor Otmar Scherzer.
Professor Otmar Scherzer is an internationally recognized mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics, particularly in the fields of inverse problems, imaging, and numerical analysis. He has received numerous awards, including the Förderungspreis of the Austrian Mathematical Society in 1998 and the START-Prize from the Austria Science Fund (FWF). He will also be an invited speaker at the Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) Conference in Brazil in 2025.
New publication in Nature Reviews Physics by Kishan Dholakia, Bruce W. Drinkwater and Monika Ritsch-Marte. The paper entitled “Comparing acoustic and optical forces for biomedical research” provides an overview of optical and acoustic forces to be used for multi-modal imaging.
The article can be found here.
Since March of this year, Monika Ritsch-Marte, the PI of the sub-project Imaging of Trapped Particles, is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. We congratulate Monika for this achievement, reflecting her recognition as an expert in Optics.
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