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Vic van Dijk: ‘It’s all in the membrane’

Hardcore technology versus politics and fundamental research versus implementations in industry. Vic van Dijk has it all. Welcome to the mysterious world of silica coatings, beer and improving the position of students as inhabitants of Enschede.
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Csaba Daday: research like bridge and chess

Glow in the dark proteins sound artificial and futuristic. But they aren’t. Csaba Daday came all the way to Twente from Romania via Iceland to work on theoretical models that explain this natural phenomenon. So what are they? Why is it important? And also, how does it compare to chess?
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Niels Baas: 'we need to talk'

The Internet is where all the bad things happen. Grooming, sexting, cyber bullying, you name it. Our children are naive creatures who need to be protected from all of this. Or is it? Niels Baas strongly disagrees. ´Parents need to learn how to talk with their children again.´
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'News media make the Internet scary'

The news media make the Internet a scary place for children, says PhD candidate Niels Baas, referring to negative concepts like grooming, sexting and cyber bullying.
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Mehmet Demirel: the Rhine man

Meet the Turkish man who cycled along the rhine, initiated Dutch toastmasters and already achieved his ‘nirvana’ publication before finishing his PhD. Mehmet Demirel will defend his thesis on low flows in the rhine this month. And yes, his short thesis presentation will be in Dutch.
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Fabienne van der Kleij: learning takes you places

Where other students can’t wait to see the day when they won’t have anything to do with tests anymore, Fabienne van der Kleij made it the topic of her PhD. Finishing 19 December, she has become an expert in how feedback in computer-based assessments can contribute to better learning results. It took her to Tel Aviv and Paris, and Brisbane awaits her.
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Annelies Geerts: champion of the double PhD’s

She is the first Phd to get a doctorate degree from the University of Twente and the catholic University of Leuven. she is also the first to get a Phd education certificate in the Innovation & entrepreneurship track of Twente Graduate school. annelies Geerts’ study on effective innovation strategies in established companies is innovative in itself.
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Shaun Lodder: 'I mimic neurologists'

What started out with an intention to replace doctors, resulted in a software program to help them instead. Shaun Lodder summarizes a tangle of data into a manageable frame to diagnose epilepsy faster and easier. Not afraid to take on an extra challenge, he wants to develop a business from it, too.
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PhD's: plagiarism vs. integrity

You could imagine merrier themes for the annual PhD Day, but apparently that is not the criterion. Being able to have relevant and constructive discussions on the theme, is. That is why the day, organized by P-NUT, is about plagiarism and honesty in science.
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‘The aim should be to make PhDs excellent, not generalists’

He was one of the driving forces behind the implementation of the for expats highly advantageous 30% tax ruling at the UT. But now PhD student and UT Council Member Victor de Graaff is on another mission: to stop the introduction of a policy measure that would compel PhD students to obtain 30 European Credits (ECs) through non-research course work. He talks about his concerns to Marloes van Amerom, and explains how UT-ers can give their opinion on the matter.
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Rindia Putri winner of TGS Award

Rindia Putri has won the TGS Research Honours PhD Award for Twente's graduate student Top Talent. She is MSc student in chemical engineering. Prof. Jeroen Cornelissen, one of Putri's supervisors, accepted the award on behalf of Putri, yesterday at the opening of the academic year. Putri is the first winner of this new TGS Award.
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Simultaneous PhD defences: how special is that?

Well, kind of special. At least, when you realise that they are three Chinese, coming from one department and that it happens within that department for the second time. Reason to have a Chinese celebration in the DMMP-department of Marc Uetz.
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