Overijssel PhD Award
Matter FOM has awarded m€ 2,9 to the research program
During the University of Twente Dies Natalis celebrations, the
‘conducting interfaces in insolating oxides’ of prof.dr.ir. Hans
Overijssel PhD Award for the best doctoral thesis of the last
Hilgenkamp. This programme is a national collaboration
year was presented to Dr. Menno Veldhorst of the Interfaces
with the following MESA+ researchers: prof.dr.ing. Guus
and Correlated Electron Systems group for his thesis ‘Super
Rijnders, prof.dr.ir. Wilfred van der Wiel, prof.dr.ir. Alexander
conducting and topological hybrids’. The Overijssel PhD Award
Brinkman, prof.dr.ing. Dave Blank, dr.ir. Gertjan Koster and
is a prize of € 5,000 for a doctoral thesis of outstanding scientific
dr.ir. Mark Huijben.
quality, which can be regarded as the start of a promising scientific career.
European Innovation prize Ostendum, a spin-off-company of MESA+ which was set up with
Rubicon-grant
Dr.ir. Saskia Lindhoud and Dr.ir. Loes Segerink
venture capital from the UT International Ventures incubator
Elif Karatay, a graduated PhD student of the Soft Matter Fluidics
fund, has managed to win a prestigious Technology Innovation
and Interfaces group has obtained a STW Rubicon grant for
Leadership Award of Frost & Sullivan in the category Lab-
her project ‘chaotic movements in salts solutions’. If a current
on-a-Chip-Nanodevices. The American advice bureau, which
passes through salt solutions, ion polarisation occurs. At very
operates worldwide, awarded this best practice award because,
high current densities the polarisation behaves like a shock
among other things, the portable laboratories being developed
and that results in chaotic movements. It will be investigated
by Ostendum can make significant contributions to medical
why this polarisation influences movement in salt solutions
diagnostics. This is due to their speed, efficiency, low costs
and how this can be controlled. Karatay will do two years of
and ease of use.
research at Stanford University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
STW 'Demonstrator' project
Dr. Bram Verhaagen and Dr. David Fernandez Rivas
Dr.ir. Remco Wiegerink of the Transducers Science and
Twente Graduate School Award 2013
Technology Group has received an amount of K€ 100 for the
The TGS Research Honours PhD Award of € 2,500 for Twente's
STW project Power Sensor – Power Glove in which a miniature
graduate student Top Talent has been awarded for the first time
multi-axis force sensor has been realized to accurately measure
in 2013 and has gone to Rindia Putri, MSc student in Chemical
the forces at the interface of the hand.
Engineering (MESA+). She can spend the money on a doctoral course or research conference in her field.
NWO subsidy for MESA+ research into carbon-neutral fuels
Cum laude distinction In 2013 two PhD students of MESA+ received a cum laude distinction for their work. Hanneke Gelderblom for her PhD thesis ‘Fluid flow in drying drops’ and Joost Weijs for his thesis
Ostendum: Dr. Aurel Ymeti, Dr. Alma Dudia, Mr.dr.
Researchers of MESA+ have been granted a total of more
‘Nanobubbles and nanodrops’. Both were PhD students of the
Paul Nederkoorn
than 1 m€ in subsidy for research into the clean production of
group Physics of Fluids.
carbon-neutral fuels. Professors Han Gardeniers and Jurriaan Huskens have received a research subsidy of K€ 712 from the
MESA+ meeting 2013
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the
The MESA+ meeting 2013 was held in Cinestar on September 16.
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and
The best scientific poster was won by dr. Benjamin Matt et al.
Shell. An amount of K€ 750 has been made available for a project
of the group Biomolecular NanoTechnology, the 2nd prize was
by Prof.dr.ir. Leon Lefferts, in cooperation with researchers of
for Xiao Renshaw Wang et al. of the Interfaces and Correlated
the FOM institute DIFFER.
Electron Systems group and the 3rd prize for Erwin Berenschot et al. of the Transducers Science and Technology group. During
FOM subsidy The
Dutch
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on
the annual meeting MESA+ scientists exchange their scientific
Prof.dr.ir. Guido Mul and Prof.dr.ir. Wilfred van der
work by poster presentations and lectures.
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