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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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ERC Starting Grants

Better ways to store renewable energy

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, worth €1.5 million, define a milestone in a scientist’s career. This year, three young UT researchers are celebrating this achievement. In a triad of stories, they each describe their ‘high risk, high gain’ projects. Part 3: Christoph Baeumer, whose research can provide better understanding of how to store renewable energy more efficiently.
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Methods to help women breastfeed

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, worth €1.5 million, define a milestone in a scientist’s career. This year, three young UT researchers are celebrating this achievement. In a triad of stories, they each describe their ‘high risk, high gain’ projects. Part 2: Nienke Bosschaart, who works on new methods to help women breastfeed.
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How fast are icebergs melting?

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, worth €1.5 million, define a milestone in a scientist’s career. This year, three young UT researchers are celebrating this achievement. In a triad of stories, they each describe their ‘high risk, high gain’ projects. Part 1: Sander Huisman, whose research aims to fully understand melting and dissolution in turbulent flows.
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Towards a better treatment of epilepsy

Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve, one of the twelve cranial nerves, can be an effective treatment for epilepsy. However, this method does not work for all patients. To predict if a patient can expect improvement by this stimulation, UT professor and clinical neurophysiologist Michel van Putten and his team, are looking for clues in long-term brain activity patterns, using self-learning analytical software.
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Getting to the bottom of it

PhD candidate Lieke Lokin does not have to wander far from the office to find out how the subject of her research manifests itself in the outside world. They can even be found in the babbling brooks on campus: river dunes. She tries to get to the bottom of what goes on under the surface of rivers.
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(Tot op) de bodem uitzoeken

Ver hoeft promovenda Lieke Lokin niet te struinen van kantoor naar de plek waar de onderwerpen van haar onderzoek zich in de buitenwereld manifesteren. Zelfs in de kabbelende campusbeekjes zijn ze te vinden: rivierduinen. Wat er zich onder het oppervlak van rivieren afspeelt, dat probeert ze tot op de bodem uit te zoeken.
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Vibration-free cooling to measure ‘voices’ from space

Together with their team, cryogenic engineer Cris Vermeer and Marcel ter Brake, Professor at Energy, Materials and Systems, of UT’s MESA+ Institute, are developing a cooling system for the Einstein Telescope project. This European observatory will be dedicated to measure gravitational waves from space. A scale model of part of the telescope will serve as research platform for building a custom-made, vibration-free cooling device.
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‘Personal branding is a journey, not a destination’

While coaching top managers, Stefan Scheidt realized that executives needed better personal branding – and so he decided to start a PhD research on the topic. Tomorrow, the doctoral candidate at the University of Twente is defending his thesis. ‘Personal branding is not only about standing out, but also about fitting in.’
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‘Impact of Covid-19 on doctors was both positive and negative’

For her Master thesis, University of Twente graduate of Business Administration Lotte Sander studied the impact of Covid-19 on wellbeing of doctors. ‘I expected the influence to be only negative, but surprisingly the pandemic has also had a positive effect.’
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Predicting vegetation health

UT scientist Yijian Zeng and his team, from the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), combined two existing computer models into a powerful tool to monitor the impact of drought and heat waves on vegetation. They received a three year grant from Netherlands eScience Center to further develop and refine their new model.
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Hand-held laser for flexible medical diagnostics

Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI) is a technology used to measure blood flow in skin tissue. Ata Chizari, PhD researcher at the Biomedical Photonic Imaging group, supervised by Professor Wiendelt Steenbergen, modified the existing equipment into a flexible, hand-held device.
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From finish line to formula

The athletics track is not only reserved for sprint specialists and marathon maniacs. Mathematician and statistician Rupsa Basu also regularly ventures inside the lines. The PhD candidate is trying to figure out how fatigue affects running patterns. The aim is to improve sports performance and prevent injuries.
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