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Only in Dutch - Op vrijdag 30 november kreeg Kouwenhoven de eervolle Genootschapsmedaille van het Genootschap ter bevordering van Natuur-, Genees- en Heelkunde. Kouwenhoven ontvangt de medaille vanwege zijn baanbrekende werk in de experimentele natuurkunde aan quantumdots en het gebruik van hun eigenschappen om Q-bits te maken.
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On November 8, 2012, the Delft Product & Process Design Institute had the pleasure to congratulate 12 young professionals with obtaining their Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) degree.
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During the PhD Event on Thursday 13 December, Prof. Jacob Fokkema presented the first UfD Best PhD Candidate Award 2012 to Hannes Bernien (QN/QT) and Cynthia Liem (EEMCS).
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A Medical Delta consortium led by prof. Wiro Niessen (IST/QI) will develop a method for early and improved diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, including chronic heart failure. The consortium has been granted funds NWO-ZonMW- Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI)NL to develop new tools that will enable doctors to oversee the relevant anatomical and functional information of the heart in...
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The Optics Research Group takes part in the recently started “The Spectr@phone” project, funded by the IOP Photonic Devices. Project leader is AMC and other partners are the companies Aventes and Anteryon.
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Last week, the Executive Board appointed Ronald Hanson (1976) as Antoni van Leeuwen professor. Hanson works at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience (QN/QT) and specialises in the study of quantum effects in nanotechnology.
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Julia Cramer (Delft) and Chris Smiet (Leiden) finished the Casimir pre-PhD track by writing a research proposal and have been awarded full Casimir Prize PhD positions. These positions, funded by the NWO Graduate Program, are fully salaried positions for four years, on the research project proposed by the candidates.
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The European Union granted the Eco2CO2 project in which the ChemE section of Catalysis Engineering of dr.ir. Michiel Makkee is involved. The project aims at exploiting a photo-electro-chemical (PEC) CO2 conversion route to produce metha­nol as a key intermediate for the production of fine chemicals (fragrances, flavourings, cresol, adhesives etc.) integrated with a lingo-cellulosic biorefinery....
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Although so-called in vitro experiments with purified proteins can provide us with many insights into how protein systems function, it is unclear how these concepts can be translated into the far more complex environments found in real living cells. That is also the case with crowding effects, interactions between molecules in extremely high densities.
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TU Delft is starting a new research programme on quantum interference effects at the level of single molecules. This research is funded by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). FOM has awarded a total of 9.9 million Euros to five new research programmes. The programme on quantum interference is a joint programme of TU Delft and Leiden University.
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Crown Prince Willem-Alexander officially opened the Brazilian office of TU Delft and BE-Basic today, the 21st of November 2012, by unveiling a marble wall plaque. This took place during a Biobased Economy Seminar, which was organised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation as part of the Royal couple’s State Mission.
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With an amount of 51 million it is one of the largest ever Dutch investments in fundamental science: scientists of TU Delft and Leiden University will be embarking on the research programme ‘NanoFront’ to explore the frontiers of nanoscience in the coming ten years. “We will be observing, monitoring and developing material at the ultimate scale: atom for atom, in a way that was completely...
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The TU Delft iGEM team has won a gold medal during the European iGEM Jamboree held 5-7 October in Amsterdam, and will advance to the iGEM World Championships, held in November in Boston.
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The Executive Board has appointed H.J. Tanke Professor in the field of Biomedical Imaging in the Bionanoscience Department of the Faculty of Applied Sciences. It is a double-appointment as Prof. Tanke holds the position of Professor of Cell Biology (Analytical Cytology) in Leiden. This 0.0 FTE position will be for the period up to 26 September 2017.
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Only in Dutch - Van de tien invloedrijkste wetenschappers van Nederland zijn er vier verbonden aan de TNW-afdeling Quantum Nanoscience. In een citatie-analyse uitgevoerd door het Centrum voor Wetenschaps- en Techniekstudies (CWTS) in opdracht van de Volkskrant bezetten Lieven Vandersypen, Ronald Hanson, Leo Kouwenhoven en Hans Mooij (allen QN/Quantum Transport) respectievelijk plek 2, 3, 5 en 9....
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The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) has provided funding for two PhD students to study "Hot electrons in cool nanocrystals". The aim is to provide understanding of the relaxation of energetic ("hot") charges in semiconductor nanocrystals.
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