Thomas Bauer recently started a Postdoc position in the Kuipers Lab here in the Department of Quantum Nanoscience at the TU Delft. In before, he was working on his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany on the experimental reconstruction of tightly focused vectorial light fields, specifically concerning their polarization structure and containing sub-wavelength phenomena. He hopes to be able to take some of the background from there to the area of near-field microscopy in Delft, and is looking forward to the hopefully versatile interaction with all the exciting broad research topics dealt with here in the Department.