Huygens Image & Movie Contest 2026
Submission deadline: January 4th, 2027
Winners announced: Before January 15th, 2027
Prizes:
1st Prize: A brand-new CHROMEBOOK (14” touchscreen, 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD)
1st–5th Prize Winners: Each receives a 0.5 TB external SSD with a custom print of the first prize image
Curious about past winners? (View previous winning images here)
How to Enter
Submit your favorite image and/or movie created with Huygens to contest@svi.nl (If your files are too large, use our Upload Site).
Please include:
- Your name, institute, and postal address
- A short description of the imaged object and how Huygens was used
- Confirmation that:
- You are the copyright holder
- You grant SVI permission to use the data for commercial and educational purposes
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Download the Huygens Suite on your computer and contact us for a free Huygens trial.
Download Flyer?
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We can't wait to see your image(s) and movie(s)!
The SVI team
1st Prize Winner of the Huygens Image Contest 2025
Movie from Dr. Ana Andjelković and Dr. Rolando Berlinguer Palmini, Faculty of Medical Sciences and BioImaging Unit, Newcastle University, UK
This year's winner was selected because it combines a wonderfully difficult feat of microscopy with Huygens' powerful restoration, and is given form in an effective visualization. The movie shows live-cell STED microscopy of localization and quantity of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) under conditions of perturbed mitochondrial gene expression in the SH-SY5Y cell line, the aim being to capture these structures at high spatial and temporal detail, while minimally affecting live cells. The captured images were deconvolved with Huygens, realigned for Z and XY drift if needed and rendered with the Huygens Surface Renderer. ''