Research prizes and awards

The departments of the Faculty of Applied Sciences have an excellent reputation for their research. Many of the members of academic staff are prize-winning scientists who received grants from Dutch and European research organisations:

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): Veni, Vidi, Vici grants, Rubicon grant.
• European Research Council (ERC): Starting Grant, Advanced Grant.

2011

ERC  

• Prof. Ruud van Ommen (Chemical Engineering) has been awarded for an ERC Starting Grant for his research ‘Coated nanoparticles offer future benefits in such fields as catalysis and energy storage and for medical uses'.

VICI

• Prof. Erik Bakkers (Quantum Nanoscience) for his research 'Grow to halfconducted nanowires' (only in Dutch).

Rubicon

• Dr. Job Boekhoven (Chemical Engineering) for ‘Smart microcapsuls for new brain tissue’ (only in Dutch).
• Dr. Ferry Prins (Quantum Nanoscience) for ‘Opto-electron component on nanoscale’ (only in Dutch).
• Dr. Aartjan te Velthuis (Bionanoscience) for ‘Influenza virus replication per second’

Other grants in 2011 were:

• Valorisation Prize FOM for Pieter Kruit (IST)
• Valorisation Grant STW for Val Zwiller (QN)
• EU grant for Frans Vos (IST) and consortium for better monitoring of Crohn’s disease using MRI
• Ronald Hanson (QN) awarded for European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award
• Rianne van den Berg received Hendrik Casimir Prize for best MSC-student
• Royal Award for Mark van Loosdrecht (BT)
• UFD Imtech Bachelor Grant for Onno de Haan (ChemE)
• Harrie van den Akker (MSP) wins UfD-Leermeester Prize 2011
• TBM and SET-student Stefan Roest wins with spin-off Eternal Sun Benelux finals Be.Project
• Unilever Researchprijs 2011 for Leonie Marang (BT)
• CTTE Outstanding Research Award for SEC-student Ammeret Rossouw
• Peter Bode (R3) receives Hevesy Medal Award 2011
• Dutch Society for Microbiology (BT) obtains Predicate 'Royal'
• Delft Innovation Award TU Delft for Bert Wolterbeek and Peter Bode (R3) with ‘Chemical Separation of 99Mo’    
• Bob Urseum (BT) received DEMO award for Particulate Matter Reduction System to apply finedust in operating rooms
• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Andres Castellanos-Gomez (QN)

2010

ERC  

• Prof. Henny Zandbergen (Quantum Nanoscience) has been awarded for an ERC Advanced Grant with a maximum of € 3,5 million euros for his reseach ’In-situ NanoElectrical Measurements in a Transmission Electron Microscope'.

VICI

• Prof. Nynke Dekker (Bionanoscience) has been awarded for € 1,5 million euros for her research ‘Developing technology that allows researchers to observe individual molecules inside a living cell’. 

VIDI

• Dr. Leonardo DiCarlo (Quantum Nanoscience) for his work on the measurement and monitoring of individual quantum systems. 
• Dr. Mohanchand Plandugu (Radiation, Radionuclides & Reactors) for ’Looking into methods for developing new self-repairing steel’. 
• Dr. Akira Endo (Quantum Nanoscience) for ‘Developing a huge network of superconductive, far infrared detectors to see how things were tens of billions of years ago’.  

Rubicon

• Dr. Aleksey Korcherzhenko (Chemical Engineering) for ‘Effects of the Environment on Charge and Energy Transport in Molecular Materials’.
• Dr. Menno Poot (Quantum Nanoscience) for ‘Optics in Motion’.
• Dr. Rami Barends (Quantum Nanoscience) for ‘Solving memory loss in superconducting quantum circuits’. 

Other grants in 2010 were:
 

• Valorisaton Grant for R3 luminescence dating.  
• Kristina Djanashvili (BT) wins DEWIS award for best PhD candidate Delft University of Technology.  
• Micro-organism named after Prof. Lex Scheffers (BT).
• ITEEA Academy of Fellows membership Award for Marc de Vries (SEC).
• Royal Honours for Prof. Hanjalic (MSP) and Yoka Boshoff (BT).
• Marlies Kampschreur (BT) wins Jaap van der Graaff prize.
• Mark van Loosdrecht (BT) IWA fellow.
• Roger Sheldon (BT) receives Biocat Award en Green Chemistry award.
• Paper Stephen Picken (ChemE) in Commemorative Issue dedicated to Alfred Saupe of the journal Liquid Crystals.      
• Poster Award for Viviane dos Santos (ChemE).  
• Fellowship Young Energy Scientists for Andrea Baldi (ChemE).    
• Canan Gücüyener (ChemE) wins ENMIX poster award.
• MSP was presented with the 1st Wim Nieuwpoort Award because of the strength of their atmosphere simulations 'High Resolution Simulation of Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layers' on the Huygens super computer at the SARA High Performance Computing and e-Science Support Centre.   
• Projects from Prof.dr.ir. L.P. Kouwenhoven (QN), Dr.ir. J.P. Hoogenboom (IST), Prof.dr.ir. G.E.W.Bauer (QN), Prof.dr.ir. B.J. van Wees (QN), Prof.dr.ir. H.S.J. van der Zant (QN), Dr. J.M. Thijssen (QN), Dr. R. Hanson (QN) have recently been awarded a total of 5.3 Mln Euro in the 'FOM-Projectruimte'.  
• Miriam Blaauboer (QN) nominated for Best teacher TU Delft.
• Freek Beekman (R3) obtained Frost & Sullivan Award.
• Freek Beekman (R3) also won the Delft Entrepreneurial Scientist Award 2010. 
• Dr. Schaart (R3) and international collaborators received the Physics in Medicine & Biology 2009 Prize for the Highest Cited Paper 2004-2009 for the paper entitled, “GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT.  
• Prof. Pieter Dorenbos (R3) won Award Journal of Luminescence Top Cited Article 2005-2010 ‘The Eu3+ charge transfer energy and the relation with the band gap of compounds’.  
• Outstanding Reviewer Award for Dr. Bas Geelhoed (R3).
• Bart Sjenitzer (R3) won a Student Award on the SNA+MC2010-conference about Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo in Tokyo with ‘A Monte Carlo Method for Calculation on the Dynamic Behavior of Nuclear Reactors’.
• Frits Klaver (R3) wins Young Wild Idea award.
• Egbert Balsma wins J.B. Westerdijkprize.
• ITEEA Academy of Fellows membership Award for Marc de Vries (SEC).
• SET student Mighael Vroom wins award for sustainable solution.   
• Huygens Talentprogram by NUFFIC granted to students Applied Sciences.
• The Hendrik Casimir prize for MSc AP students TU Delft and Physics University of Leiden. 

   


2009

ERC

• Prof. Cees Dekker (Bionanoscience) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euro for reasearch at the cutting edge of ‘Nanostructures for biology'.
• Dr. Ferdinand Grozema (Chemical Engineering) hreceived an ERC Starting Grant of 1.2 million euro for reasearch on new molecules that can be applied in organic solar cells.

VIDI

• Dr. Pascale Daran-Lapujade (Biotechnology) for 'Synthetical glycolyse in bakkersgist'.
• Dr. Ferdinand Grozema (Chemical Engineering) for 'Exploiting quantum interference effect in molecular scale electronics'.

VENI

• Dr. Rienk Eelkema (Chemical Engineering) for 'Plastic folding on a molecular scale'.
• Dr.ir. Willem van Dorp (Imaging Science & Technology) for 'The electron beam as atomic pencil'.
• Dr. Jorge Gascon (Chemical Engineering) for 'NEXT CAT-HOIF: designing the next generation of solid catalysts'. 
• Dr. Arjan Houtepen (Chemical Engineering) for 'Conducting light and power with nanocrystals'.
• Dr. Jan Lipfert (Bionanoscience) for 'DNA Twists and Shouts'.
• Dr. Gary Steele (Quantum Nanoscience) for 'Coupling light, electrons, and nano-mechanical motion'.

2008

ERC

• Prof. Leo Kouwenhoven (Quantum Nanoscience) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant.
• Dr. Lieven Vandersypen (Quantum Nanoscience) has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
• Prof. Mike Jetten (Biotechnology) has been awarded for his reasearch proposal on 'Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria'.

VICI

• Dr. Lieven Vandersypen (Quantum Nanoscience) for 'Using entangled electron spins for calculation'.
• Dr. Serge Lemay (Bionanoscience) for 'Measuring molecules one by one'.

VENI

• Dr. Nika Akopian (Quantum Nanoscience) for 'Single-photon controller for light’. 
• Dr. Enrique Jimenez-Melero (Radiation Radionuclides Reactors) for ‘Self-reinforced metals for environmentally friendly cars'.

2007

VIDI

• Dr. Ronald Hanson (Quantum Nanoscience) for 'Quantum-mechanical calculation at room temperature'.
• Dr. Marnix Wagemaker (Radiation Radionuclides Reactors) ror 'How can small be better?'

VENI

• Dr.ir. Aurèle Adam (Imaging Science & Technology) for 'Taming terahertz surface waves'.
• Dr.ir. Martin Rohde (Radiation Radionuclides Reactors) for 'Nature helps innovative nuclear power station'.

Rubicon

• Ir. Jadviga Tatur (Biotechnology) for her research for 'Understaning the structure of proteins, of great importance for the development of new medications'.

2006 

VICI

• Dr. Alberto Morpurgo (Quantum Nanoscience):'Relativistic electrons on a chip'.
• Prof. Paul Planken (Imaging Science & Technolgy): 'Towards a terahertz near-field microscope'.

VIDI

• Dr. Cristian Picioreanu (Biotechnology): 'Calculating microbial conversations'.
• Dr. Jakob Wallinga (Radiation Detection and Matter): 'Casting light on the power of water'.
• Dr. Val Zwiller (Quantum Nanoscience): 'Nano-opto-electronics with individual photons and individual electrons'.

VENI

• Dr. Marijn van Huis MSc (Quantum Nanoscience): 'Playing with stability'.
• Dr. Michiel Kreutzer (Chemical Engineering): 'Shooting pulses onto catalyst chips'.
• Dr. Kevin O’Neill (Quantum Nanoscience): 'Individual molecules as a light source'.

Rubicon

• Peter Prinsen (Biotechnology): 'How large is a large RNA molecule?'

2005

VICI

• Dr. Herre van der Zant (Quantum Nanoscience): 'Mechanics in the quantum world'.
• Prof. dr. Wiro Niessen (Imaging Science & Technology): 'Cardiovascular diseases under the microscope'.

VENI

• Dr. Fredrik Creemer (Quantum Nanoscience): 'Live pictures from the nanoworld'.
• Dr. Jessica Kroeze (Chemical Engineering): 'Border controls for electrical charges'.

2004

VENI

• Dr. Ruud van Ommen (Chemical Engineering) for 'Optimalisation of floating powder.
• Dr. Ferdinand Grozema (Chemical Engineering) for 'Self-organising molecules for electronics'.