PhD stories

Improving people’s lives through better electricity access

Students or researchers? UT doctoral candidates fall into a category of their own. In ‘PhD stories’, we put their work in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Ilman Sulaeman who aims to provide better energy access for people in remote areas in Indonesia.
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Breaking the boundaries of bioprinting

Students or researchers? UT doctoral candidates fall into a category of their own. In ‘PhD stories’, we put their work in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Mira El Akkawi who is working on 3D bioprinting of vascular networks.
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PhD Stories: Maike de Jongh

Using math to describe the rules of nature

Students or researchers? UT doctoral candidates fall into a category of their own. In ‘PhD stories’, we put their work in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Maike de Jongh who uses mathematical models to study natural phenomena, such as the spread of forest fires and cancer.
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PhD Stories: Violetta Sharoglazova

‘Quantum mechanics don’t follow the rules of our usual world’

Students or researchers? UT doctoral candidates fall into a category of their own. In ‘PhD stories’, we put their work in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Violetta Sharoglazova who is expanding our fundamental knowledge of quantum physics.
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Helping addiction patients to detox at home

Students or researchers? UT doctoral candidates fall into a category of their own. In ‘PhD stories’, we put their work in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Huub Lievestro who is developing a 'Detox@Home' system, which allows addiction patients to detox in their own living environment.
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PhD Stories: Esli Diepenbroek

‘I’m still in the PhD honeymoon phase’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Esli Diepenbroek who is developing a new hydrogel material.
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PhD Stories: Udipta Boro

‘I’m contemplating working outside of academia’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Udipta Boro, who studies video surveillance systems in India.
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‘Music offers all kinds of answers’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Benno Spieker (49), PhD candidate at the Human Media Interaction group and teacher at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
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PhD Stories: Femke Witmans

‘I want to show people what PhD life is really like, the fun parts and the hard parts’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Femke Witmans who studies nanowires and features as one of the KNAW Faces of Science.
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PhD Stories: Alejandro Moya Esteban

‘Doing a PhD made me realize that academia is not a good fit for me’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Alejandro Moya Esteban from the Neuromechanical Modeling & Engineering Lab.
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Discussion about work pressure among PhDs

Doctoral candidates face unique challenges and stressors compared to other UT employees. Studium Generale, in collaboration with U-Today and P-NUT, is therefore organizing a discussion about work pressure among PhDs. The event will take place on 13 April in Vrijhof.
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‘We believe that autism is just another way of looking at the world’

It is World Autism Awareness Day coming Sunday. Together with the HAN University of Applied Sciences, UT PhD candidate Niels van Huizen (Human Centered Design) and his colleagues work on the Design-Your-Life toolkit for young adults with autism. ‘I think that people often grow up with the idea that autism is something abnormal by definition.’
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‘It’s so much easier to go to work if you love your research project’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Jeanne Parmentier from the Pervasive Systems group at the UT and the Utrecht University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
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‘I love the freedom to shape my process’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put doctoral researchers of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Tessa de Koning Gans from the Photo Catalytic Synthesis group.
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