PhD stories

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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‘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: Catalina Jaime Sanchez

‘King Charles was very interested in my work’

Students or researchers? PhD candidates fall into a category of their own. In this series, we put young academics of the University of Twente in the spotlight. This episode gives the stage to Catalina Jaime Sanchez, who balances being Head of Climate and Conflict at Red Cross, a dedicated humanitarian, mother of two and PhD researcher at ITC faculty.
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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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‘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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‘PhD changed me and how I think of the world’

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 Ronald Voorn (1958) from the Communication Science department, who is defending his PhD thesis this week.
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