A national platform for super-resolution microscopy that did not exist before I arrived. The challenge was not the technology. It was the coordination: aligning faculties within the university, bridging to partner institutions across the Netherlands, and negotiating the governance that turned a collection of microscopes into a shared national facility.
Today it operates as a federated infrastructure. Open access calls. Shared data standards. A steering model that distributes decision-making across stakeholders rather than concentrating it in a single institution.
The invisible work
The memos. The alignment meetings. The legal frameworks. The patient back-and-forth that gets many parties to agree on how to share an instrument they each helped pay for. None of this appears in the facility brochure. All of it is what made the facility possible.
The website is public. The structure behind it is the project.