Joost van Honschoten

Information:

Name: Joost van Honschoten
Function: Assistant Professor

Joost van Honschoten died on January 12, 2011. As is written on his obituary, he was tired of fighting. The news of his unexpected death has deeply shocked all of his colleagues at TST. We remember him as a warm personality and a great scientist. Miko wrote a “In Memoriam” in the UT Nieuws. The In Memoriam has been translated in English.

Original page made by Joost:

Teaching:

Electrodynamics, physics in general, mathematics.

Research Interest:

Physical modelling, optics, quantum physics.

Biography:

Joost was born on January 3, 1972, in Deventer and moved two years later to Raalte, where he grew up. After the atheneum, he studied Applied Physics at the University of Twente, Enschede, where he received in 1997 the M. Sc degree. His master assignment involved the investigation of laser-Doppler blood perfusion measurements, in which the the coherence surfaces in ‘speckle’patterns, that characterise the scattered light were analysed. In 1997 he received the M.Sc degree. During that year, he worked on the description of solitary waves in optical switches. The Ph.D research that he did at the TST group concerned the ‘microflown’, a thermal flow sensor for acoustic measurements, during which Joost worked on a physical description of the sensor behaviour. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2004. Additionaly he got involved with teaching. Joost likes walking, drawing and painting, running and the French language. He enjoys giving private lessons physics, mathematics etc. to secondary school students who need help.