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Laurens Spoelstra wint TGS Award én PhD-contract

Laurens Spoelstra (23) mag zich dit jaar de winnaar noemen van de TGS Award, die vandaag werd uitgereikt bij de opening van het academisch jaar. De UT’er – die binnenkort start met zijn PhD – hoopt de komende jaren een verschil te maken in de ontwikkeling van een medicijn tegen artritis met Joint-on-Chip-technologie.
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Van vmbo naar een goedgekeurd proefschrift: ‘Wist niet eens wat een PhD was’

Het proefschrift van Frances Wijnen werd deze maand goedgekeurd. Eind oktober mag ze haar werk verdedigen. Dat doet ze met trots, want de route die ze aflegde was lang en steil. Een verhaal over doorzettingsvermogen, leren te leren en vooroordelen over onderwijsniveaus.
PhD stories
PhD Stories: Nienke van Dongen

‘It has been a rollercoaster but I’ve enjoyed the ride’

Students or researchers? PhD and PDEng candidates fall into a category of their own. What is it like to navigate the sometimes lonely road towards a doctoral degree? In this monthly series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the limelight. This episode gives the stage to Nienke van Dongen from the BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip chair.
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‘Animals can’t advocate for themselves, but I can be their voice’

‘People are becoming more aware of animals and that they deserve respect,’ says Norma Contreras Hernandez, PhD researcher at the UT Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability. Today she is defending her doctoral thesis dedicated to animal protection in her home country of Mexico.
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‘I like the freedom of doing a PhD’

Students or researchers? PhD and PDEng candidates fall into a category of their own. What is it like to navigate the sometimes lonely road towards a doctoral degree? In this monthly series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the limelight. This episode gives the stage to Sergio Alvarado Vazquez from the department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management.
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Vasileios Trikalitis

‘As a PhD, you have four years when you simply cannot fail’

Students or researchers? PhD and PDEng candidates fall into a category of their own. What is it like to navigate the sometimes lonely road towards a doctoral degree? In this monthly series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the limelight. This episode gives the stage to Vasileios Trikalitis, PhD researcher at Vascularization Lab and Product Innovation Manager at IamFluidics.
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Aurora Ruiz Rodríguez

‘With everything I do, I want to improve someone’s life’

Students or researchers? PhD and PDEng candidates fall into a category of their own. What is it like to navigate the sometimes lonely road towards a doctoral degree? In this monthly series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the limelight. This episode gives the stage to Aurora Ruiz Rodríguez, computer scientist from the Biomechanical Engineering group.
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Emotions as a food lie detector

Customers often decide which product to buy based on ‘feelings’. Daisuke Kaneko, PhD researcher at the UT, studied how emotions could be used to predict food choices – and how this differs across cultures. The doctoral candidate in the Human Media Interaction group is defending his thesis tomorrow.
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‘I truly discovered myself during my PhD’

Students or researchers? PhD and PDEng candidates fall into a category of their own. What is it like to navigate the sometimes lonely road towards a doctoral degree? In this monthly series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the limelight. This episode gives the stage to Fardad Maghsoudi Moud from the Applied Earth Sciences department at ITC.
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‘If there is nobody else, then I will step up and do it’

Students or researchers? PhD and PDEng candidates fall into a category of their own. What is it like to navigate the sometimes lonely road towards a doctoral degree? In this monthly series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the limelight. This episode gives the stage to Verena Menzel from the Mathematics of Operations Research group.
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‘All PhDs should be considered one community’

The University Council (UC) is concerned about PhD candidates who are not employed by the UT. During today’s meeting in Horst, the Council advised the Executive Board to clearly define the status and the rights of these ‘scholarship-PhD’s’. ‘We want to provide proper support mechanism and treat them equally.’
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The Virtual Burglary Project

‘A peek into the mind of a burglar’

UT researcher Iris van Sintemaartensdijk has spent a lot of time in prison. The PhD candidate used Virtual Reality (VR) to interview almost 200 criminals across the Netherlands, aiming to determine what happens inside the mind of a burglar. Next week, she is defending her doctoral thesis, contributing to the ‘Virtual Burglary Project’.
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