On Monday, the 16th of December, Falko Schmidt, will visit Frank Cichos’ lab at the University of Leipzig. He will present latest research on a nanoscopic particle in a harmonic trap.
Month: December 2019
Start-up “Lucero Bio” among the best 5 business ideas in West Sweden
Falko Schmidt and other researchers at the University of Gothenburg, in collaboration with Business students at the Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, have received early acclaimfor their Start-up idea “Lucero Bio”.
Lucero Bio was ranked among one of the top 5 business ideas in West Sweden by Venture Cup Sweden. Out of the 376 ideas that were submitted to the competition, nearly half came from the western region of Sweden.
The start-up is aiming to make cutting-edge laser technology easy to use and available to anyone by combining it with commercial microscope. The product and software combo utilizes optical tweezers in a brand-new way – and bridges the gap between physics and other scientific fields that would greatly benefit from easier access to this tool.
Team components: Christopher Jacklin, Rich Zapata Rosas, Felix Mossberg, Falko Schmidt, Alejandro Diaz Tormo and Martin Mojica-Benavides.
More information:
Press release, in Swedish.
Top 20 list of the 2019 winners, in Swedish.
Falko Schmidt visits Simmchen lab at TU Dresden
On Friday, the 13th of December, Falko Schmidt, will visit Juliane Simmchen’s lab at the Technical University of Dresden. He will present results on Liquid-Liquid-Phase Separation a project that is currently in collaboration with their lab.
Poster presentation by F. Schmidt at the Light at the Nanoscale conference, 5 December 2019
Light-induced phase separation power novel micro machines
Falko Schmidt, and Giovanni Volpe
Light at the Nanoscale Conference, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
5 December 2019, 16:30-18:30
Phase separation is a phenomena that commonly exists in nature, from the freezing of ice to the intrinsic mechanism of the cell to order matter. We are exploiting phase separations to produce new types of miniaturised machines, in particular micron and nano sized engines1as well as to form self-assembled colloidal molecules2. We control their behaviour using only light and varying its ambient temperature making this a simple tool to study complex matter3. This will enhance the development of future medicine where nano robots deliver drugs specifically to the local infection side.
References:1. F. Schmidt et al. Microscopic engine powered by critical demixing, Phys Rev Lett 120, 068004, 2018
2. F. Schmidt et al. Light-controlled assembly of active colloidal molecules, J Chem Phys150, 094905, 2019
3. S. Bo et al. Measurement of anomalous diffusion using recurrent neural networks, Phys Rev E 100, 010102(R), 2019
DeepTrack selected by Optics & Photonics News as one of the most exciting optics discoveries in 2019
Optics & Photonics News has picked Saga Helgadóttir and Aykut Argun’s work on deep learning for particle tracking (DeepTrack) as a top break-through of the year.
“This has been a really good year for me, research-wise. My publication, presenting a new AI method, garnered a lot of attention,” says Saga Helgadóttir, PhD at the Department of Physics.
The research article in question, which is now included in Optics & Photonics News’ best-of-2019 list, identifies a new way of implementing neural networks and machine learning in order to track particle motion and study surrounding microenvironments.
After the publication in mid-April, Saga Helgadóttir was contacted by both national and international press to talk about her discoveries. She has also been invited to visit research groups abroad and was a speaker at the AI in Health and Health in AI conference held in Gothenburg in August.
Currently, Saga Helgadottir is collaborating with a group of scientists at Sahlgrenska’s Wallenberg Laboratory. They are working on new ways of using deep learning in the medical field.
“I started my PhD research studying bio-hybrid microswimmers, but ended up more within the area of artificial intelligence and optics. I like this work a lot, and the positive response to my publication earlier this year has allowed me to establish myself in the AI-field.”
Text: Carolina Svensson
List of highlighted research from 2019: Optics in 2019
Saga Helgadottir’s featured summary: Deep Learning for Particle Tracking
Original press release about the research: She has discovered a new method of using AI