PhD stories

Lie to me: Detecting deception with the help of technology

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 Peter Slijkhuis who uses technology to study deception detection.
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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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Improving dialysis for patients with kidney failure

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 Roberto Nese, whose research aims to improve dialysis and could contribute to a wearable artificial kidney.
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Closing the gap between research and climate action

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 Gerard Martínez Görbig who helps local governments to adapt to climate change and to ensure climate justice.
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Monitoring microorganisms from space

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 Mélody Rousseau who uses remote sensing to study soil biodiversity in forests.
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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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Lung-on-a-chip: Testing the effects of plastics on our health

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 Lysanne Mol who is developing a lung-on-a-chip to test the effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human health.
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Grieving during a criminal trial: ‘Victims are often the forgotten party’

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 Lieke Nijborg, who studies the impact of a criminal trial on bereaved people.
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Werken in de voorhoede van de wetenschap

Oleksandr Mialyk kreeg de nodige tegenslagen tijdens zijn promotie. Zijn supervisor, Arjen Hoekstra, overleed, corona brak uit en er kwam oorlog uit in Oekraïne, zijn thuisland. Maar Mialyk zette door. Hij rondde onlangs een project af in samenwerking met de Wereldbank en schreef mee aan een rapport van de Intergovernmental Panel on Climte Change (IPCC).
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‘I want to be at the forefront of science’

Oleksandr Mialyk has had a fair share of hardship during his PhD journey at the UT. His supervisor, Arjen Hoekstra, died, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, and war came in Ukraine, his home country. Despite all that, Mialyk kept going. He recently finished a project with the World Bank and even contributed to a report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climte Change (IPCC).
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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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‘You should not be married to your PhD research’

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 Alireza Ghasemi who is working towards making jet engines greener.
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