Cedric Noordam studies physics and biomedical engineering at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He will receive his Master of Science degrees in the fall of 2015. He did an internship at the Optical Imaging lab at the Washington University in St. Louis where he did research on photoacoustics. His research interests include plasmonics, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, nano-optics, photoacoustics, and optics in general with biomedical applications.