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  • April 17, 2025

    Rethinking electric vehicles a smarter path to cleaner transport

    Maurizio Clemente defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on April 16th.

  • April 16, 2025

    Michel Reniers and Anton Wijs received funding from the Open Competition Domain Science-M program

    Michel Reniers and Anton Wijs receive NWO funding to accelerate control software synthesis using GPUs for safer, faster system design.

  • April 15, 2025

    Ammodo Science Award 2025 goes to Yoeri van de Burgt

    Yoeri van de Burgt will use the €350,000 prize money to investigate how smart materials can make artificial intelligence more efficient by…

  • April 8, 2025

    Redefining fluid control in microfluidics with magnetic artificial cilia

    Tongsheng Wang defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on April 8th.

  • April 2, 2025

    Stabilizing burners to prevent thermoacoustic instability for quieter combustion appliances

    Hamed F. Ganji defended his PhD thesis with the distinction cum laude at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on April 2nd.

  • April 2, 2025

    Efficient designing of porous media and metamaterials with multiscale modeling

    Renan Liupekevicius Carnielli defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on April 1st.

  • March 28, 2025
    Transform Local Wood Waste into Valuable Composite Materials with the URWOOD Project

    URWOOD: Innovative Solutions for Wood Waste in the Utrecht Region

    The URWOOD project transforms local wood waste into innovative composite materials, promotes the circular economy, and strengthens the local…

  • March 26, 2025

    Enabling automated driving for vehicles in the logistics industry

    Viral Gosar defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on March 26th.

  • March 20, 2025

    Advancing impact-aware robot control for automation in logistics

    Jari van Steen defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on March 19th.

  • March 18, 2025

    Improving ultrasound wave control with metamaterial coatings for medical needles

    Georgia Kuci defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on March 12th.

  • March 17, 2025

    Optimizing NMR system designs for industrial analysis applications of flowing samples

    Rutger Tromp defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on March 14th.

  • March 14, 2025

    Digital twins improve fault diagnosis in high-tech engineering systems

    Farhad Ghanipoor defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Mechanical Engineering on March 13th