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Het bestuur van NWO-domein Toegepaste en Technische Wetenschappen (TTW) benoemt dr.ir. Aimée Sakes tot nieuw bestuurslid. Zij zal per 1 april 2023 toetreden.

John van den Dobbelsteen is benoemd tot hoogleraar Medical Process Engineering. Hij focust zich met zijn onderzoek op het verbeteren van de interactie tussen operatiepersoneel en medische technologie.

Lidy Fratila-Apachitei and Murali Ghatkesar received a Cohesion grant to investigate how 3-D printed pillars with features in the sub-micrometre range can affect adhesion and mechanics of living progenitor cells at single cell level. Together with postdoc researcher Livia Angeloni and the other collaborators, they developed and applied a novel method based on fluid force microscopy.

Saskia van Heumen van 3mE is uitgeroepen tot TU Delft’s Best Graduate 2022 voor haar uitzonderlijke onderzoek naar het gebruik van foto-akoestische beeldvorming bij de behandeling van lymfe-oedeem.

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Ali Akyildiz. Akyildiz’s research focusses on cardiovascular biomechanics, specifically individual people’s susceptibility to cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, due to biomechanical failure in their blood vessels. This 1.5 million euros grant is to cover the costs of a five-year research programme, and is awarded to researchers who are at the start of their career, but have already excelled in a promising line of research.

Ajay Seth has been awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) grant of US$ 350,000 to develop OpenSim Creator. This open-source biomechanical simulator will enable researchers worldwide to create novel neuromuscular and musculoskeletal models within hours, enabling better and faster responses to biomedical questions about human and animal mobility.

As we age, we start to change the way we move. But why do older adults move differently to young adults? How much change can we tolerate before assist is needed? And how does adaptation relate to falls? Eline van der Kruk and a team of researchers of Imperial College in London explore these questions in a daily life activity. Their findings were published in the Nature Portfolio NPJ Aging.