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Bas Bögels defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Biomedical Engineering on February 21st. No longer storing data with ones and zeros, but with A, T, C and G - the building blocks of DNA.

"AI is an indispensable tool to achieve the material transition needed for a sustainable society", says Bernd Ensing, associate professor of Computational Chemistry at the Faculty of Science.

"AI is an indispensable tool to achieve the material transition needed for a sustainable society", says Bernd Ensing, associate professor of Computational Chemistry at the Faculty of Science.

More and better optics with less. That is the ambition of the AWAVE consortium, led by TU Delft. The researchers will develop a flat optical component that might replace all curved optical components, such as lenses, in the future.

Timo van Overveld defended his PhD thesis cum laude at the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education on December 12th.

Ralf Mackenbach defended his PhD thesis cum laude at the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education on November 29th.

Tim Bouchée defended his PhD thesis at the Eindhoven School of Education, which is part of the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, on November 24th.

The UT is launching nine public-private research projects in collaboration with  Holland High Tech, the High-Tech Systems and Materials top sector (TKI HTSM).

Researchers at MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology developed a tool that can measure the size of a plasma source and the colour of the light it emits simultaneously.

Researchers from the groups of Prof. Herre Van der Zant at TU Delft and Prof. Yara Galvão Gobato at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR) have teamed up to explore Van der Waals Heterostructures for Spintronics via a recent SPRINT grant.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to eight researchers from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC.

Delft University of Technology and its Kavli Institute of Nanoscience received a five-million-dollar grant from The Kavli Foundation to fund a collaborative effort to develop the quantum equivalent of telecommunication.

Annemarie Huijser and Pantelis Bampoulis both receive an ENW-M grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Green Team Twente, a multidisciplinary student team consisting of 26 enthusiastic full-time students, will participate in the prestigious Formula Student Netherlands competition.

Radboud researchers Uta Noppeney and Peter Jonker have both been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The amount of the Advanced Grant may vary, but it is about €2.5 million that can be used by the recipients to continue their research for the next five years. A total of €544 million in grants will be allocated to 218 projects across Europe in this round.

How do you prevent stands from collapsing? An interview with construction expert Simon Wijte. Seating for away fans in the Philips Stadion will be filled only to half capacity until further notice.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded five TU Delft researchers a Vici grant of up to 1.5 million euros. This will enable them to develop an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group for a period of five years. Vici is one of the largest personal scientific grants in the Netherlands and is aimed at advanced researchers.

Previous article Next article UT professors Mark Huijben, Christian Nijhuis and Floris Zwanenburg, all associated with research institute MESA+, have received a Vici grant of EUR 1.5 million from NWO.

Prof. Wybren Jan Buma of Molecular Photonics at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences will take part in research using the new Dutch quantum supercomputer.