Engineering

Maria Antonietta Loi, creates new materials that turn light into electricity or electricity into light. She works with led/tin perovskites for solar cells, and quantum dots for various technological applications.

Prof. David Lentink is a partner in the NaviSense project awarded 54.7 million euros by the German government to research the mechanisms animals use to navigate and how these mechanisms can inspire technology.

Dr. Vassilis Kyriakou has received a EUR 400,000 grant of the NWO to develop an innovative electrochemical reactor for sustainable ammonia production.

Dynamical systems, i.e. mathematical models that describe how things evolve over time, are at the heart of much of the modern world. The real challenge, however, lies in shaping the systems’ behaviour to achieve a specific goal.

Nathalie Katsonis has won the Ammodo Science Award for Fundamental Research. She develops adaptive molecular materials and studies the chemical origins of life, which in turn yield insights for vaccines and clearing up oil spills at sea.

Two student teams from the University of Groningen and Hanze University of Applied Sciences will test two self-built mini-satellites in the municipality of Oldambt on April 24.

Paolo Pescarmona designs and builds catalysts, for example to turn carbon dioxide into polymers.

Professor Ming Cao receives an ‘AiNed’ Growth Fund grant of EUR 2.4 million for research that will contribute to faster adoption of AI at SMEs in the technical industry in the Netherlands.

Grid congestion poses a challenge to our electricity network, and expanding the infrastructure will take time and money. ‘What we can do right now, is manage and optimize what we have as best as we can,’ says Michele Cucuzzella. For example by using peaks in electricity generation to heat and store water which can then be used to heat houses in the city at a later stage.

Charissa Roossien developed a method to measure the amount of carbon dioxide a person exhales.

What if your research requires a huge international facility, which is far away and has limited availability? Moniek Tromp has built a tabletop version that allows her to take a large part of the measurements on new batteries in her own lab.

‘In nature, most flying animals rely on flapping movements,’ explains Mauricio Muñoz Arias, assistant professor of Automation and Control Systems. Together with his students, Muñoz Arias developed a featherlight device that flaps its wings like an insect: an ornithopter.