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[16 – 17 April 2024]  QCI lab had a pleasure to host Ph.D. Mateusz Szatkowski, Optica ambassador, and hear his inspiring talks about his research and scientific carrier experience. Than you for visiting us!

[7 – 11 April 2024]  Maciej Trusiak, Piotr Zdańkowski and Michał Józwik took part in SPIE Photonics Europe 2024 that took place in Strasbourg, France. Maciej gave an invited talk about:

“Enhancement and evaluation of phase imaging capabilities in lensless digital holographic microscopy”

Piotr contributed to the conference giving talk about:

“Phase shifting common path polarization grating based diffraction tomography”

Michał had a chance to present his research in the poster session about:

“Phase measurements in Linnik interferometer with physically and numerically minimized errors”

Attending the conference they had a chance to listen to world’s greatest scientific minds and learn about exciting novelties in the field. The event gave an outstanding networking opportunities to connect with Europe’s greatest research groups.

[24 – 27 March 2024]  Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski took part in Focus on Microscopy FOM2024 conference in Genoa, Italy. They contributed to the conference giving talks about:

“Correlative lensless digital holographic microscopy for high-throughput quantitative imaging of cell cultures and tissue slices” (M. Trusiak)

“Common path optical diffraction tomography for refractive index analysis of lipid droplets” (P. Zdańkowski)

[21 March 2024]  Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski attended LIDER gala organized by National Centre for Research and Development NCBR, as they recently received two grants for their research, concerning:

“Lensless holographic microscope enabling high-throughput label-free biomedical samples testing” (M. Trusiak)

“Fourier ptychographic microscope for biomedical imaging applications with numerically increased resolution and contrast” (P. Zdańkowski)

In total both grants cover over 3.5 mln zł for research and development of newly emerging technologies.

[27 January – 1 February  2024]  Our freshly-defended PhD Maria Cywińska and QCI lab’s PhDreamTeam – Mikołaj Rogalski, Piotr Arcab and Emilia Wdowiak took part in SPIE #PhotonicsWest 2024 in San Francisco, CA, United States. During the conference they contributed to Quantitative Phase Imaging X poster session on Monday Jan 29. Their posters covered the topics:

“inPHASENet: convolutional neural network for high space-bandwidth product single-fringe-pattern phase imaging” by Maria Cywińska

Phase from defocus: transport of intensity or in-line holography?” by Mikołaj Rogalski

“3-channel multiplexed lensless holographic microscope for comparative examination of live cell cultures” by Piotr Arcab

“Quantitative study of phase sensitivity in immersion-based lensless digital holographic microscopy” by Emilia Wdowiak

What’s more Mikołaj Rogalski gave a talk on behalf of Piotr Zdańkowski on “Common path single-shot Hilbert optical diffraction tomography”, which included the latest of his works.

QCI lab members had also a chance to visit Radosław Chrapkiewicz (Director of Engineering, Biology Stanford University School of Medicine) and learn about his study on in vivo imaging of mouse brain’s activity in large field of view. Thank you for having us!

[20-21  November  2023]  Prof. Tomáš Čižmár visited QCI lab delivering interesting lecture about “How to image anywhere in the brain through 100 µm thin fibre?”. Then we had a chance to show him our current work in the laboratories. We are grateful for this very inspiring visit.

[14 November 2023] Our PI Maciej Trusiak took part in Youth Talks Vol.40 – Young Scientists Shaping the Future – Computational Optical Imaging and Metrology. Along with prof. Hee Kyung Ahn and prof. Chao Zuo he had an opportunity to give an invited speech about “Lensless digital holographic microscopy for high-throughput computational bioimaging”.

The recording of the event is available online.

[13 November 2023] Maciej Trusiak visited Photonics Department in Physics Institute of Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, where he delivered a seminar concerning “Advances in Lensless Digital Holographic Microscopy for Biomedical Applications”. 

 

[26 October 2023] Today Maria Cywińska defended her PhD thesis with excellent results!

She worked on ”Development of data processing algorithms utilizing variational and deep learning techniques for full-field interferometric optical measuring methods” under the supervision of prof. dr hab. inż Krzysztof Patorski and prof. dr hab. inż. Maciej Trusiak.

We are very proud of Marysia, hoping the future will bering her many more successes. Congratulations!

[October 2023]  Piotr  Zdańkowski, representing QCIlab, had the opportunity to visit Nanjing University of Science and Technology and engage with Professor Chao Zuo’s research group. He delivered an invited talk concerning his research being a part of at two significant events – “6th Conference on Frontiers in Optical Imaging and Detecting Technology and Application” and “The 2nd China-CEEC Conference on Technology Cooperation and Exchange.”

[October 2023] We are recruiting! An open position for the Postdoctoral Researcher position in ERC Starting Grant Project – [NaNoLens] Lensless label-free nanoscopy is now available. For more information visit OPEN POSITIONS tab. 

Application deadline – 2023-12-31!

[October 2023] We are recruiting! An open position for the PhD Student in BayesOM NCN Preludium BIS Project – Bayesian inference in optical metrology is now available. For more information visit OPEN POSITIONS tab. 

Application deadline – 2023-12-31!

source: Elsevier

[23  October  2023]    Maciej Trusiak, Krzysztof Patorski ranked as World’s TOP 2% Scienticts in Elsevier Ranking.

Krzysztof Patorski appears on the list TOP 2% scientists including his whole career, while both with Maciej Trusiak they appear on TOP 2% for 2022.

Congratulations!

[4 – 7  October  2023]    Maciej Trusiak, Piotr Zdańkowski and Mikołaj Rogalski attended Seeing is believing: imaging the molecular processes of life.

During the conference they had a chance to present posters about:

Lensless digital holographic microscopy: numerical and experimental advancements” (Maciej Trusiak)

Common path quantitative phase microscopy and tomography: new solutions and applications” (Piotr Zdańkowski)

Quantitative analysis of mouse glial-restricted progenitors migration deploying lensless holographic microscopy” (Mikołaj Rogalski)

What is more, Maciej, Piotr and Mikołaj visited Jena, Germany, where they met Prof. Tomáš Čižmár (Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien, Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS) and Prof. Rainer Heintzmann (Physikalische Chemie, Universität Jena).

[18 – 29  September  2023]    Our PhD students – Mikołaj Rogalski and Emilia Wdowiak attended the SFO Thematic School 2023 : WAVES IN COMPLEX MEDIA.

During almost two weeks period they have a chance to listen to some of the greatest lecturers from around the world at the same time experiencing the beauty of the Alpes, Les Houches and Chamonix Mont Blanc Valley. They contributed to the poster session presenting their works on:

“Single-shot twin-image digital in-line microscope in a regular microscope embodiment” (Mikołaj R.)

“Experimental examination of lensless digital holographic microscopy based on custom-designed spatial resolution” (Emilia W.)

Michał Józwik presenting

[10 – 14  September  2023] Michał Józwik attended IX Metrological Congress (IX Kongres Metrologiczny) in Ryn, Poland.

During the conference he presented the poster concerning “Porównanie algorytmów analizy obrazów prążkowych w aspekcie ich zastosowania w pomiarach interferometrycznych w GUM“.

source: CRATER

 

[1 – 7  September  2023]  Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski attended Crater Conference in Warsaw, Poland

During the conference they had a chance to present posters about:

Lensless digital holographic microscopy: numerical and experimental advancements” (Maciej Trusiak)

Common path quantitative phase microscopy and tomography: new solutions and applications” (Piotr Zdańkowski)

Maciej Trusiak in the lab 

source: WUT

[05  September  2023] Our PI Professor Maciej Trusiak got awarded ERC Starting Grant for NaNoLens Project!

Lensless digital holographic microscopy opens up completely new possibilities for imaging live cells. The main challenge of the project is to overcome low spatial (~1 micron) and axial (~ 3 microns) resolution in lensless holographic microscopy using ultraviolet radiation. Project starts in January 2024 and we are very excited for what future brings us with ERC possibilities!

More information about the Grant available on ERC website,  WUT website and on YouTube (English subtitles available).

The Congress took place in Gdańsk University of Technology

[04  September  2023] Maciej Trusiak gave an invited talk during 48th Congress of Polish Physicists, taking place in Gdańsk, Poland

He gave an invited speech about “Obliczeniowa mikroskopia fazowa: metody i zastosowania” (Polish title) – “Methods and application of quantitative phase microscopy” (English translation).

from left: Piotr Arcab, Maria Cywińska, Mikołaj Rogalski

[14-17  August  2023] Three members of QCI lab: Maria Cywińska, Mikołaj Rogalski and Piotr Arcab took part in Optica Imaging Congress in Boston, MA USA.

Maria Cywińska gave oral presentation on “Deep Learning Aided Variational Hilbert Quantitative Phase Imaging“.

Mikołaj Rogalski gave oral presentation on “Universal Neural Network for Twin Image Suppression in Lensless Holographic Microscopy“.

Piotr Arcab gave oral presentation on “Twin Image Reduction in Two-Shot Lensless Digital Holographic Microscopy via Light Source Splitting“.

source: Linkedin

[12-13  August  2023] Our Principal Investigator Maciej Trusiak is taking part in Phase for Life: Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Life Science Mini-Conference. During the conference several prominent scientist working in the field of Quantitative Phase Microscopy (QPM) will showcast latest development in QPM for Life Sciences.

Venue: Harvard University, Boston, USA
Virtual: Talks will also be streamed via Zoom
Registration: https://lnkd.in/dgVtT3jU
Conference Chair: Peter So Dushan Wadduwage Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia
The attendance is free but registration is necessary.

Mini-conference is supported by the Norges forskningsråd /Research Council of Norway supported INTPART project, “NanoSymBioSys”; co-operation between UiT- The Arctic University of Norway Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

From left: Piotr Arcab, Emilia Wdowiak, Mikołaj Rogalski, Maciej Trusiak, Piotr Zdańkowski, Maria Cywińska

source: Fundacja Candela / Mateusz Politański

[4-7  July  2023] Our team joined Conference Polska Konferencja Optyczna 2023 in Toruń, Poland where:

Maciej Trusiak presented the poster on “Bezsoczewkowa cyfrowa mikroskopia holograficzna: rozwój algorytmów rekonstrukcji i zastosowań biomedycznych“.

Piotr Zdańkowski presented the poster on “Ilościowa mikroskopia i tomografia fazowa wspólnej drogi: nowe rozwiązania i zastosowania“.

Maria Cywińska presented the poster on “Usprawnienie algorytmu Variational Hilbert Quantitative Phase Imaging z wykorzystaniem uczenia głębokiego“.

Mikołaj Rogalski gave oral presentation on Sieć neuronowa do usuwania efektu obrazu sprzężonego w bezsoczewkowej mikroskopii holograficznej“.

Piotr Arcab gave oral presentation on Redukcja efektu „twin image” w bezsoczewkowej mikroskopii holograficznej ze sferyczną wiązką odniesienia“.

Emilia Wdowiak gave oral presentation on Ilościowa analiza zdolności obrazowania w mikroskopii bezsoczewkowej z wykorzystaniem druku dwufotonowego“.

In the foreground: Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski

[26-29  June  2023] Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski attended SPIE Optical Metrology conference in Munich, Germany.

Maciej Trusiak gave oral presentation on ”Improved multiwavelength twin image and coherent noise reduction in Gabor holographic microscopy”.

Piotr Zdańkowski gave oral presentation on “Polarization grating based common path optical diffraction tomography with optimized spatio-temporal coherence and reduced speckle noise”.

Emilia Wdowiak

[19-23  June  2023] Emilia Wdowiak took part in VI-International School on Light Sciences and Technologies ISLIST organized by Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander, Spain.

This year’s edition concerned “Light in Health and Medicine” and included lectures by world’s leading scientists, such as, Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, Prof. Pablo Artal and Prof. Laura Lechuga. More about the school available on the ISLiST website.

Mikołaj Rogalski in the middle, receiving the award

[May 2023] Mikołaj Rogalski got awarded START Scholarship by Foundation for Polish Science (Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej)!

START scholarship is intended for young scientists with outstanding scientific achievements. The aim of the scholarship is to support scientific development and encourage young scientists to develop further.

Congratulations Mikołaj!

 

From right: Maciej Trusiak, Piotr Zdańkowski, Maria Cywińska and Emilia Wdowiak

[24-27 April 2023] Maciej Trusiak, Piotr Zdańkowski, Maria Cywińska and Emilia Wdowiak took part in SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Maciej Trusiak gave oral presentation on “Grating-based common-path quantitative phase microscopy in low photon budget regime”.

Piotr Zdańkowski gave oral presentation on “Quantitative comparison of the light sources in grating-based common-path quantitative phase microscopy”.

Maria Cywińska gave oral presentation on “Deep variational Hilbert quantitative phase imaging”.

Emilia Wdowiak gave oral presentation on “Experimental examination of lensless digital holographic microscopy imaging capabilities based on custom-designed spatial resolution targets”.

Upper left: Maciej Trusiak, lower left: Piotr Zdańkowski, right side: Tomasz Wróbel

[31 January 2023] Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski visited Tomasz Wróbel PhD, DSc (Associate Professor NSRC SOLARIS Jagiellonian University) in IR beamline (SOLAIR) at the Solaris Synchrotron Kraków, Poland.

From left: Jędrzej Szpygiel, Maciej Trusiak and Piotr Zdańkowski after Jędrzej’s exam.

[16 January 2023] Today two of our MSc students completed their Master degrees by passing their thesis defense exams.

Jędrzej Szpygiel worked on ”Convolutional neural network for conjugated image separation in grating phase microscopy”.

Michał Kołodziej worked on ”Analysis of the impact of a limited photon budget on the efficiency of quantitative phase imaging”.

Congratulations!

[January 2023] We are recruiting! An open position for the Postdoctoral Researcher in project [GaboScope] – Numerically enhanced lensless Gabor microscopy for high-throughput marker-free investigation of dynamic live biosamples is now available. For more information visit OPEN POSITIONS tab.

source: SEP

[December 2022] Piotr Arcab and Emilia Wdowiak were awarded in Professor Smoliński Contest for the best thesis in optoelectronics, organized by Polish Electronic Association. Congratulations!

source: icopen

[24-27 November 2022] Maciej Trusiak became scientific committee member of the Virtual, International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering icOPEN2022.

Piotr Zdańkowski gave an invited speech on ”Single-Molecule Nanoscopy through Structured Illumination”.

Mikołaj Rogalski also gave an invited talk concerning ”Improving the signal-to-noise ratio in lensless holographic microscopy”.

[September 2022] Professor Krzysztof Patroski along with Maciej Trusiak became World’s TOP 2% Scientists of 2021 based on Elsevier databases of standardized citation indicators. With the other 36 researchers they are among the best scientists in Warsaw University of Technology. Congratulations!

Mikołaj Rogalski presenting

[5-9 September 2022] Members of our team joined 22th Polish Slovak Czech Optical Conference On Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics in Wojanów, Poland.

Maciej Trusiak gave plenary talk about ”Computational techniques in lensless holographic microscopy for biomedical imaging”.

Maria Cywińska gave oral presentation on ”DeepVID: deep-learning accelerated variational image decomposition for filtration of different types of fringe patterns”.

Mikołaj Rogalski gave oral presentation on ”Extended depth of focus lensless holographic microscopy imaging”.

Piotr Arcab gave oral presentation on ”Optimization of signal-to-noise ratio and attempt to increase resolution in lensless in-line digital holographic microscopy”.

Piotr working in lab

Piotr Zdańkowski in Salinas Grandes, Argentina

[September 2022] Piotr Zdańkowski returned from research stay at the CIBION (Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias) in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Applied Nanophysics Group (PI: Prof. Fernando D. Stefani). Funded by the National Agency for Scientific Exchange (NAWA) Bekker Programme.

Maria next to Effelsberg Radio Telescope

[September 2022] Maria Cywińska returned from NAWA Iwanowska scholarship in Max Plank Institute Bonn, Germany, where she visited visited PhD Maciej Wielgus and work on the project entitled „Bayesian and deep learning methods for interferometric data analysis: from nanoscale phase imaging to black hole shadow”. Project was based on the assumption that many concepts from radio interferometry easily translate to optical interferometry, as the underlying physical phenomena are essentially the same (wave interference, optical waves in phase imaging and mainly radio waves in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astronomy). Quantitative Phase Imaging techniques (i.e., interferometry, holographic microscopy, moiré techniques and fringe projection profilometry) are one of the most accurate techniques for measuring objects at the nano-, micro- and macro-scale and have the great advantage of being precise and non-contact. Due to the fact that in quantitative phase imaging methods the measurand is encoded in the registered intensity distribution (the phase of the registered fringe pattern), they additionally require a special phase demodulation method, which accuracy directly affects the accuracy of the performed measurement. The research and improvement the fringe pattern analysis algorithms (decoding the information about measurand) is an extremely important issue which is the subject of active research work of many international scientific groups. The algorithmic developments in the project was focused on Bayesian methods (dynamic nested sampling previously used in the data analysis for the first image of the black hole applied for optical interferometry data analysis) and modern deep learning approach.

Maciej Trusiak presenting

[21-26 August 2022] Maciej Trusiak gave oral presentation during SPIE Optics+Photonics, Interferometry XXI San Diego, US on ”Common-path grating-based interferometers with altered temporal and spatial coherence of illumination for quantitative phase microscopy and tomography“. Maciej was also a member of scientific committee of the Conference.

Mikołaj Rogalski gave speech about ”Fast locally adaptive method for optical fringe pattern filtering”.

Maciej Trusiak presenting

[1-4 August 2022] Two members of QCI lab took part in OPTICA Digital Holography and Three-dimensional Imaging 2022 Cambridge, UK where:

Maciej Trusiak gave oral presentation on ”Lensless Digital Holographic Microscopy With Enhanced Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Live Neural Cell Imaging”,

Mikołaj Rogalski presented poster on ”Quantitative Phase Microscopy from Defocused Images with a Common Brightfield Microscope”.

Piotr Arcab presenting, source: OPTO 2022

[18-21 July 2022] Piotr Arcab gave oral presentation on ”Applying multi-wavelength iterative algorithms for twin image removal in lensless holographic microscopy” during OPTO conference 2022 Warsaw, Poland.

Maciej Trusiak took part in the conference as a scientific committee member.

source: OPTICA

[12-15 July 2022] Mikołaj Rogalski gave oral presentation on ”Open-source Algorithm for Objects 4D Tracking in Lensless Digital In-line Holographic Microscopy” during Imaging and Applied Optics Congress Vancouver, Canada.

[12-15 June 2022] Our team joined Polska Konferencja Optyczna 2022 Płock, Poland Conference where:

Maciej Trusiak gave talk on ”DarkTrack: algorytm śledzenia 4D obiektów badanych metodą cyfrowej poosiowej mikroskopii holograficznej”,

Mikołaj Rogalski gave talk on ”FPM app: Aplikacja do Wysokorozdzielczego Obrazowania w Dużym Polu Widzenia Techniką Ptychografii Fourierowskiej”,

Piotr Arcab presented poster on ”Usuwanie szumów w układzie bezsoczewkowego mikroskopu z wirującą matówką”,

Jędrzej Szpygiel presented poster on ”Analiza obrazów prążkowych metodami transformacji Fouriera i Hilberta: porównanie”.

[18-22 April 2022] Maciej Trusiak gave an invited talk during Optics and Photonics International Congress OPIC2022, Information Photonics 2022 on the subject of "Convolutional neural networks in optical fringe pattern preprocessing".

[March 2022] Maria Cywińska started NAWA Iwanowska scholarship in Max Planck, Bonn, Germany.
[February 2022] Piotr Zdańkowski started NAWA Bekker scholarship in CIBION, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

[1 January 2022] Maciej Trusiak started his term as Associated Editor in Optics and Lasers in Engineering journal.​

[10 June 2021] NCN SONATA: GaboScope project kick-off

We started realization of a project “[GaboScope] Numerically enhanced lensless Gabor microscopy for high-throughput marker-free investigation of dynamic live biosamples” funded (1,5 mln PLN) for 3 years (2021-2024) by National Science Center, Poland via SONATA programme. Principal investigator Maciej Trusiak and GaboScope Team are proud to cooperate with prof. Vicente Micó group (University of Valencia, Spain), prof. Chao Zuo group (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China) and prof. Balpreet Ahluwalia group (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso).

GaboScope Team:
PhD Julianna Winnik, PhD Piotr Zdańkowski, MSc Mikołaj Rogalski, MSc Bartosz Mirecki, BSc Piotr Arcab, and PhD Maciej Trusiak

Interested in cooperation? Please contact us at maciej.trusiak@pw.edu.pl

[19 January 2021] NCN OPUS: PHAICELL project kick-off

We started realization of a project “[PHAICELL] Coherent quantitative phase microscopy: revisiting the basics and proposing novel numerical reconstruction methods with applications for advanced label-free bio-imaging” funded (2 mln PLN) for 4 years (2021-2025) by National Science Center, Poland via OPUS programme. Principal investigator Maciej Trusiak and PHAICELL Team are proud to cooperate with prof. Vicente Micó group (University of Valencia, Spain), prof. Chao Zuo group (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China) and prof. Balpreet Ahluwalia group (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso). 

PHAICELL Team:
Professor Michał Józwik, PhD Julianna Winnik, PhD Piotr Zdańkowski, MSc Maria Cywińska, MSc Mikołaj Rogalski, BSc Paweł Gocłowski, BSc Jędrzej Szpygiel and PhD Maciej Trusiak
 

Interested in cooperation? Please contact us at maciej.trusiak@pw.edu.pl

Maria Cywińska and Piotr Zdańkowski received FNP START scholarships, congratulations!

Piotr Zdańkowski got Ministry scholarship for outstanding young researchers, congratulations!

Maria Cywińska’s project gets funded in NCN Preludium!

Piotr Zdańkowski’s project gets funded in IDUB BIOTECH!

Maciej Trusiak’s project gets funded in IDUB FOTECH!

Piotr Zdańkowski's project gets funded by Scientific Council of the Discipline of Automation, Electronics and Electrotechnics

Maciej Trusiak’s project gets funded by Scientific Council of the Discipline of Automation, Electronics and Electrotechnics