This week I will stay in Barcelona to give two lectures during the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. On Monday, I will talk about Teaching Entrepreneurship and Process Intensification Principles in Twente, while on Thursday, the topic will be Synergising effects achieved with small scales and acoustic energy.
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Best tech-idea of 2017 (popular vote)!
The Dutch magazine KIJK, has nominated my needle-free idea InkBeams, and the popular vote has positioned it at the top of all the selected ideas. Now a group of experts will decide what will happen … Looking forward to it!
Visiting Warsaw to kickstart collaboration
This week I will be visiting my colleague, Prof. Colmenares’s group Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Production and Environmental Protection, from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. I will be giving two lectures supported by the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland within research project Sonata Bis Nr. 2015/18/E/ST5/00306. This project is aimed […]
Alumni gathering in Boston
My colleagues from the University of Twente (Marijke Stehower and Joe Laufer) have organised a venue and time (Friday the 14th of July) for me to share some experiences with former alumni. The details can be found here.
Giving a Lecture on Bubbles aka Cavitation, and some of its applications at NYU
I will be giving a lecture at the Department Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering. This visit has been arranged by Assistant professor Miguel Modestino (http://www.miguelmodestino.com)
Visiting scientist at MIT
I am starting a collaboration with Prof. Ian W. Hunter from the Bioinstrumentation lab, and Prof. Gareth McKinley’s Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics Research Group. We want to learn more about thermocavitation and its rheology aspects; let’s see how far we can get at MIT!
A new paper has been published in JFM!
It is open access and can be downloaded from here.
Bata 2017!
Here the link to this race: The Batavierenrace is the largest relay race in the world and the largest student event of the Netherlands. It is a race over 175 km from Nijmegen to Enschede, divided into 25 stages. 350 teams ( which means 8,500 students) will participate in this race. Afterwards, the biggest student […]
Spreading entrepreneurial ambitions from an academic perspective
In an interview published in the new site of Novel-T, Peter Hoekstra and I share some memories of The Startup Launch 2016. The text can be read here.
A Book to which I contributed is now printed and online!
Together with my colleague Simon Kuhn, from Leuven, we wrote a Chapter (download here), and is now printed and in online form (here).