ERC grantees at TU Delft
Celebrating TU Delft’s ERC grantees
Since the establishment of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2007, TU Delft researchers have been very successful in securing ERC grants. Check the overview of grantees below.
Curiosity-driven, fundamental science is the basis for innovation. Today’s blue sky thinking may inspire tomorrow’s applications and solutions. Moreover, to ensure we will be able to solve tomorrow’s problems and supply tomorrow’s needs, we have to keep working today on our fundamental understanding of the world. In the words of American Nobel prize winner George Smoot: “If we only did applied research, we would still be making better spears.” However, in our profit-driven society, funding for this kind of research, where results may take decades before they can be translated into economic benefits, has become increasingly hard to come by. Here, the European Research Council is the proverbial exception that proves the rule, funding investigator-driven research at the frontiers of science and technology.
Researchers at TU Delft have been awarded grants in all available categories, including ERC Synergy. Within the ERC, the Netherlands ranks among the five main recipients, and in turn TU Delft ranks among the five main recipients within the Netherlands. This success is of course due to the merits of our researchers, excellence being the sole criterion for award. With this publication, we therefore celebrate both our researchers’ excellence, and the wisdom of the European Research Council in making this possible.
Bilge Atasoy
Adaptive transport systems with holistic representation of supply and demand (SH7)
Starting Grant
Clémentine Viellard-Boutry
Biodegradable MEMS for peripheral nerve repair (PE7)
Starting Grant
Edgar Steenstra
Volatile Element Cycles on Venus: Implications for the Evolution of Venus' Greenhouse-Dominated Atmosphere (PE10)
Starting Grant
Franziska Glassmeier
Unlocking the mesoscale frontier of cloud-climate uncertainty (PE10)
Starting Grant
Tom Burdyny
Selective CO2 Reduction to CO and Alcohols without Platinum or Noble Group Electrodes (PE8)
Starting Grant
Farbod Alijani
NCANTO - Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluctuating Two-Dimensional Materials in Action (PE8)
Consolidator Grant
Marios Kotsonis
The Delft Laminar Hump: A novel local surface geometry for passive laminarization of aircraft wings
Proof of Concept
2022
Lorenzo Botto
SludgeCam, A smart centrifuge camera for testing dewatering ability of waste-water sludges in hyper-gravity
Proof of Concept
Jantien Stoter
Detailed 3D Building models Automatically Generated for very large areas
Proof of Concept
Arjen Jakobi
Nanofluidic chips for reproducible cryo-EM sample preparation with picoliter sample volumes
Proof of Concept
Francesco Avallone
Acoustic fLow InteractioN over sound absorbing surfaces: effects on ImpedaNce and draG - LINING
Starting Grant
Ivan Langella
COnTrol of Hydrogen and Enriched-hydrogen Reacting flows with Water Injection and Strained flames for ultra-low Emissions - OTHERWISE
Starting Grant
Sebastian Weingartner
MRI-based ID of the vasculature across the heart-brain axis - VascularID
Starting Grant
Valeria Garbin
All-acoustic Bubble Microrheology for rapid screening of formulations (ABuMic)
Proof of Concept
Sander Otte
Hyperfine-coupled spins with time evolution readout (PE3)
Advanced Grant
2021
Sabina Caneva
Single-molecule acoustophotonic nanofluidics
Starting Grant
Clémentine Cottineau
Urban Economic SEGregation: integrating explanatory mechanisms across geographical scales to compare remediatory policies in silico
Starting Grant
Daniel Tam
Flows for Algae Growth: Uncovering the multi-scale dynamics of living suspensions
Consolidator Grant
Frank Hollmann
Practical oxyfunctionalisation biocatalysts by engineering monooxygenases into peroxyzymes
Advanced Grant
Sjoerd Stallinga
Nanoscale Isotropic 3D Resolution using Omni-view Structured Light Sheet Microscopy
Advanced Grant
Chiara Bisagni
New Adaptive and BUCkling-driven COmposite aerospace structures - NABUCCO
Advanced Grant
Sijme-Jan Paardekooper
DUSTSPEC: Sizes Matter: The Dust Size Distribution during Planet Formation (PE9)
Advanced Grant
2020
Caroline Paul
Biocatalytic alkylation: fitting enzymes for selective C-C bond formations
Starting Grant
Kristof Cools
March-on-in-Time: Boundary Elements for Time-Domain Domain-Decomposition Methods
Consolidator Grant
Bart de Schutter
CLariNet: A novel control paradigm for large-scale hybrid networks
Advanced Grant
Piet Van Mieghem
ViSioN Virus Spread in Networks
Advanced Grant
2019
Andrea Caviglia
Project Efficient hydrogen sensing with atomically engineered materials
Proof of Concept
David Vermaas
Enhanced mass transport in electrochemical systems for renewable fuels and clean water
Starting Grant
Arjen Jakobi
PHAGOSCOPY: Dissecting cell-autonomous immunity with ex vivo electron cryo-microscopy
Starting Grant
Rene Pecnik
When Flows Turn Turbulent in the Supercritical Fluid Region
Consolidator Grant
Jerry Westerweel
IMPULSIVE FLOWS: beyond velocity and acceleration
Advanced Grant
Cees Dekker
Bottom-up biophysics approach to resolve the looping structure of chromosomes
Advanced Grant
2018
Arjan Houtepen
Designing Devices by Doping on Demand
Proof of Concept
Attila Geresdi
Simulated Majorana States
Starting Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Sonia Conesa-Boj
Living on the Edge: Tunable Electronics from Edge Structures in 1D Layered Materials
Starting Grant
Marios Kotsonis
Spatio-temporal measurement and plasma-based control of crossflow instabilities for drag reduction
Starting Grant
Farbod Alijani
Exploring nonlinear dynamics in graphene nanomechanical systems
Starting Grant
Oded Cats
Concepts, theories and models for planning , operating and evaluating the dynamics of Mobility as a Service
Starting Grant
Chirlmin Joo
Repurposing small RNA from ciliates for genome editing:
single-molecule study
Consolidator Grant
Menno Veldhorst
Quantum information transfer between hole spins and topological states
Starting Grant
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Liedewij Laan
A combined in vitro and in vivo approach to dissect biochemical network evolution
Starting Grant
Wilson Smith
Selective Conversion of Water and CO2 Using Interfacial Electrochemical Engineering
Starting Grant
Monique van der Veen
Constructing polar rotors in metal-organic frameworks for memories and energy harvesting
Starting Grant
Nynke Dekker
Eukaryotic DNA replication: a single-molecule approach to the study of yeast replication on chromatin
Advanced Grant
Frans van der Helm
An EEG calibration toolkit for monitoring rehabilitation of stroke patients
Proof of Concept
Ibo van de Poel
Design for changing values: a theory of value change in sociotechnical systems
Advanced Grant
Tatiana Filatova
Scaling up behavior and autonomous adaptation for macro models of climate change damage assessment
Starting Grant
Nishat Awan
Death and Life of Catalysts: a Theory-Guided Unified Approach for Non-Critical Metal Catalyst Development
Consolidator Grant
-
Louise Nuijens
How nature's smallest clouds slow down large-scale circulations critical for climate
Starting Grant
Christian Poelma
Flows Unveiled: Multimodal Measurement in Opaque Two-Phase Flows
Consolidator Grant
Caspar Chorus
New discrete choice theory for understanding moral decision making behaviour
Consolidator Grant
Kees Wapenaar
Virtual Seismology: monitoring the Earth's subsurface with underground virtual earthquakes and virtual seismometers
Advanced Grant
Evgeny Alexandrovich PIDKO
Death and Life of Catalysts: a Theory-Guided Unified Approach for Non-Critical Metal Catalyst Development
Consolidator Grant
Lorenzo Botto
Ultra-flexible nanostructures in flow: controlling folding, fracture and orientation in large-scale liquid processing of 2D nanomaterials
Starting Grant
-
Arjan Houtepen
Doping on Demand: precise and permanent control of the Fermi level in nanocrystal assemblies
Starting Grant
Hyun Youk
Deconstructing complexity to reveal quantitative systems-level principles that enable multicellular systems to coordinately regulate genes over space and time
Starting Grant
Miren Vizcaino
Coupled climate and Greenland ice sheet evolution: past, present and future
Starting Grant
Simon Groeblacher
Strong single-photon radiation-pressure coupling for quantum optomechanics
Starting Grant
Jantien Stoter
Urban modelling in higher dimensions: embedding generalisation of 3D data in a 4D model
Starting Grant
Lucia Nicola
A seamless multi-scale model for contact, friction, and solid lubrication
Consolidator Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Louis de Smet
Electro-motion for the sustainable recovery of high-value nutrients from waste water
Consolidator Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Yuli Nazarov
Higher-dimensional topological solids realized with multiterminal superconducting junctions
Advanced Grant
Ruud van Ommen
Rationally designed nanostructured catalysts for bio-conversion systems: assessing the innovation potential of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) powder/particle coating for the catalyst market
Proof of Concept
Georgios Smaragdakis
Resolving the Tussle in the Internet: Mappingn, Architectre, and Policy Making
Starting Grant
-
Stan Brouns
Adaptive immunity in prokaryotes: how Bacteria do not forgive and do not forget their enemies.
Starting Grant
Bernd Rieger
Optical nanoscopy at 1 nm resolution: far-field fluorescence control at cryogenic temperatures
Consolidator Grant
Pascale Daran-Lapujade
Synthetic platforms for ad libitum remodelling of yeast central metabolism
Consolidator Grant
Ferdinand Grozema
In control of exciton and charge dynamics in molecular crystals
Consolidator Grant
Serge Hoogendoorn
unrAvelLing sLow modE travelinG and tRaffic: with innOvative data to a new transportation and traffic theory for pedestrians and bicycles
Advanced Grant
Seumas Miller
Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility: Redesigning Military, Police and Intelligence Institutions in Liberal Democracies
Advanced Grant
Valeria Garbin
Extreme deformation of structured fluids and interfaces. Exploiting ultrafast collapse and yielding phenomena for new processes and formulated products
Starting Grant
-
Michel Verhaegen
Integrated Real-time Feedback Control and post-processing for image Restoration
Advanced Grant
Angelo Simone
Computational modelling of structural batteries
Consolidator Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Maarten van Ham
Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects
Consolidator Grant
Johannes Tiemen Padding
Multiscale modelling of gas-fluidized flows of non-spherical particles
Consolidator Grant
Jorge Gascon
Crystal Engineering of Metal Organic Frameworks for application in Mixed Matrix Membranes
Starting Grant
Gregory Schneider
Sequencing biological molecules with graphene
Starting Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Marileen Dogterom and Anna Akhmanova
Building a Model Cell to Achieve Control of Cellular Organization
Synergy Grant
Frans van der Helm
Accurate EEG source localisation using patient tailored head models
Proof of Concept
-
Robert Bogdan Staszewski
Time-Domain RF and Analog Signal Processing
Starting Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Chirlmin Joo
Unveiling the Molecular Basis of RNA Interference with Single Molecule Fluorescence
Starting Grant
Francesco Pedaci
Probing the angular dynamics of biological systems with the optical torque wrench
Starting Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Val Zwiller
Nanodevices for Quantum Optics
Starting Grant & Proof of Concept
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Ruud van Ommen
Core/Shell nanoparticle electrocatalysis for fuel cell applications: probing the market potential Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Coatings
Proof of Concept
Henny Zandbergen
A double tilt cryoholder for ultra hihg resolution transmission electron microscopy at low temperatures
Proof of Concept
-
Frans van der Helm
4D-EEG: a new tool to investigate the spatial and temporal activity patterns in the brain
Advanced Grant & Proof of Concept
Andrea Neto
Advanced Antenna Architecture for THz sensing Instruments + Proof of Concept 2015-2 Artificial Dielectrics for High-frequency On-Chip antennas
Starting Grant & Proof of Concept
Ruud van Ommen
The interplay between agglomeration and coating of nanoparticles in the gas phase + Proof of Concept 2015-2 Rationally designed nanostructured
Starting Grant & 2x Proof of Concept
Petrus Péi Sen Ho
Rethinking China’s Collapse: Land, Development and Institutional Credibility
Starting Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
-
Andrzej Stankiewicz
Towards Perfect Chemical Reactors:
Engineering the Enhanced Control of Reaction Pathways at Molecular Level via Fundamental Concepts of Process IntensificationAdvanced Grant
Michael Gastpar
Communication and Computation - Two Sides of One Tapestry
Starting Grant
[transferred elsewhere after acquiring grant]
Henny Zandbergen
In-situ NanoElectrical Measurements in a Transmission Electron Microscope
Advanced Grant & Proof of Concept
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Fulvio Scarano
Flow visualisation inspired aero-acoustics with time-resolved Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry
Starting Grant & Proof of Concept