From 1 to 6 November 2026, our group participated in the 869th WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Computational Optical Microscopy, held at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany.

The seminar brought together researchers working at the intersection of optical microscopy, physics, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Discussions focused on the role of computational methods in microscopy, including image reconstruction, inverse problems, optimization and machine learning, as well as approaches to improving imaging performance, contrast, speed and dimensionality.

Our group contributed two invited presentations:

• Prof. Małgorzata Kujawińska: Metrology aspects of 2D/3D Quantitative Phase Imaging in biomedical applications
• Maria Baczewska: Quantitative Phase Imaging: Why label-free does not mean protocol-free.

We also presented four posters:

• Martyna Mazur: Full-field swept-source quantitative phase imaging with temporal coherence gating
• Szymon Jastrzębski: Raman Spectroscopy guided by Optical Diffraction Tomography for biomedical applications
• Filip Dłużewski: Optical-Tweezer-Driven Sample Rotation for Motion-Robust 3D Refractive Index Tomography
• Wojciech Wróblewski: Hybrid coherent/incoherent QPI systems for high throughput phase measurements in biomedical applications

A special congratulations to Filip Dłużewski, who received the Best Poster Award!

The seminar was a great opportunity to exchange ideas, learn about recent developments in computational optical microscopy and meet researchers working on related challenges. Thank you to the scientific organizers and the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation for organizing and supporting this event