Archive
17 August 2018
NWO START-UP grant for three researchers of Applied Sciences
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO , has awarded almost 3 million euros to seven recently appointed principal investigators in physics and chemistry. Three of the laureates of these so-called ‘START-UP’ grants work at the faculty of Applied Sciences: Daan Brinks, Toeno van der Sar and Carlas Smith (also 3ME).
14 August 2018
Controlling the nickelate nano-switch with light
30 July 2018
ERC Starting Grants for two AS researchers
The European Research Council has awarded ERC Starting Grants to two researchers of the Faculty of Applied Sciences. The grants (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work.
24 July 2018
Veni for Jeremy Brown and Zoltán Perkó
NWO has announced the Veni recipients for 2018. Among them are seven Delft scientists, two of whom are from RST: Jeremy Brown and Zoltán Perkó. The Veni grants allow researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years.
20 July 2018
Uncovering the interplay between two famous quantum effects
The Casimir force and superconductivity are two well-known quantum effects. Separately, these phenomena have been thoroughly studied.
18 July 2018
Veni for four researchers of AS
NWO has announced the Veni recipients for 2018. Amongst them are four researchers from the faculty of Applied Sciences: Jeremy Brown (RST), Zoltán Perkó (RST), Georgy Filonenko (ChemE) and Carlas Smith (ImPhys). The Veni grants allow researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years.
12 July 2018
KWF proton research project for Holland PTC
Zoltán Perkó (Radiation, Science & Technology), together with Mischa Hoogeman (project leader, Erasmus MC) and Martijn Eenink (Holland Protonen Therapie Centrum) have been granted a KWF research project named PEARL (PrEcision of proton therapy increased by Advanced Robustness analysis).
11 July 2018
Gary Steele and Leo DiCarlo appointed as AvL-professors
06 July 2018
A hydrogen sensor that works at room temperature
Researchers at TU Delft have developed a highly sensitive and versatile hydrogen sensor that works at room temperature. The sensor is made of a thin layer of a material called tungsten trioxide.
02 July 2018
Cees Dekker surprised with Best Professor Award 2018
On Monday 2 July, Cees Dekker, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (AS), was surprised...