Festive opening of the renewed Electron Microscopy Centre

Watch the video of the EMC Last Friday, the renewed Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC) of Utrecht University was officially opened. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, and Isabel Arends , Dean of the Faculty of Science , did so with the symbolic push of a button. The centre, which houses electron microscopes that are among the most advanced in the world , brings together a wide variety of scientific disciplines, both in life sciences and material sciences. During the opening ceremony, Dijkgraaf, who studied physics at Utrecht University, reflected on the role that science plays as an explorer of the unknown. Dijkgraaf: "The microscope is the perfect metaphor of what science stands for. Thanks to this facility, we are going to see things we did not think possible. It is a wonderful example of science as an eye opener." Smallest building blocks.