Three of our scientists (Beenakker, Van Vught and Haasjes) have received an Open Science grant from the Dutch Research Council to stimulate the development of ZOSPy, our open platform for optical simulations. Since we have made ZOSPy available open-source, scientists from various disciplines are using it as a platform to share their methods and make them publicly available. In this project we will add features to ZOSPy that simplify this sharing of methods and results, together with a better documentation. This will allow ZOSPy to become a tool that stimulates the adoption of Open Science for optical simulations.
Today we have had the first User’s Committee meeting of our COMPOSE project. These meetings are common element for projects funded through NWO’s Applied Engineering Sciences domain, and provides potential users, e.g. medical companies and doctors, unique possibilities to utilize technological knowledge at an early stage. For this specific project, representatives from Philips Healthcare, HollandPTC and RaySearch Laboratories, as well as ophthalmologists, radiation oncologists form User’s Committee. During this first meeting, we had a fruitful exchange ideas about the progress of the research and discussed new possibilities for valorization of it’s results.
