Interview with 'light professor' Gijs van Soest

Because of his appointment as professor, Amazing Erasmus interviewed Gijs van Soest, one of the Scientific Leaders of the Medical Delta NIMIT scientific program. As a physicist, Van Soest is concerned with the scattering of light.

As professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Thorax Center of Erasmus MC, he heads the research group "Invasive imaging", which researches imaging using catheters. Previously, Van Soest worked at the KNMI, where he investigated disturbances in the ozone layer by means of the absorption of sunlight. He now applies his knowledge of how light behaves in medical technology.

"With new imaging techniques we can now visualize, for example, atherosclerosis in very high resolution. We can already clearly visualize the shape of such a 'plaque', but not yet what kind of material it contains. This is what we would like to achieve."

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