nl /typo3conf/ext/www_tue_nl/Resources/Public/Images/logo01.gif 18 16 TYPO3 10 /en/news-and-events/news-overview/11-06-2026-exploring-soft-matter-mechanics-wouter-ellenbroek-appointed-associate-professor-at-tue /en/news-and-events/news-overview/11-06-2026-exploring-soft-matter-mechanics-wouter-ellenbroek-appointed-associate-professor-at-tue Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200 The Department of Applied Physics and Science Education is pleased to announce that Wouter Ellenbroek has been appointed Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. His work focuses on understanding and designing soft materials with advanced mechanical properties, bridging fundamental physics with real world applications. ]]> /en/news-and-events/news-overview/14-05-2025-structure-and-dynamics-of-glass-forming-liquids /en/news-and-events/news-overview/14-05-2025-structure-and-dynamics-of-glass-forming-liquids Wed, 14 May 2025 10:29:00 +0200 Ilian Pihlajamaa defended his PhD thesis cum laude at the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education on May 6th. ]]> /en/news-and-events/news-overview/28-01-2025-modelling-the-emergent-structure-in-soft-functional-materials /en/news-and-events/news-overview/28-01-2025-modelling-the-emergent-structure-in-soft-functional-materials Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:32:00 +0100 René de Bruijn defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education on January 28. ]]> /en/news-and-events/news-overview/28-11-2024-athena-award-for-scientist-with-guts-liesbeth-janssen /en/news-and-events/news-overview/28-11-2024-athena-award-for-scientist-with-guts-liesbeth-janssen Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0100 Liesbeth Janssen has won the NWO Athena Award for outstanding female researchers. The associate professor at the Department of Applied Physics wants to use the prize money of 50,000 euros to pay more attention to neurodiversity. ]]> /en/news-and-events/news-overview/29-08-2024-max-schelling-publishes-study-on-cooling-dependent-crystallization-in-microgels-in-soft-matter /en/news-and-events/news-overview/29-08-2024-max-schelling-publishes-study-on-cooling-dependent-crystallization-in-microgels-in-soft-matter Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Max Schelling, PhD student in the group of Janne-Mieke Meijer (Soft Matter and Biological Physics) published a manuscript that made it to the inside cover of the Journal Soft Matter. In the study Schelling investigated the cooling rate dependent crystallization near a wall in dense microgel systems. ]]> /en/news-and-events/news-overview/31-05-2024-modeling-smart-polymer-materials /en/news-and-events/news-overview/31-05-2024-modeling-smart-polymer-materials Fri, 31 May 2024 08:33:00 +0200 Guido Kusters created mathematical models to aid in the development of smart polymers, and he defended his PhD thesis cum laude at the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education on May 29th. ]]>