At the NWO Biophysics 2025 Conference, PhD candidate Ana Sofia Oliveira Nogueira presented innovative work on understanding how hydrogels—materials commonly used as skin surrogates—respond to
Daria Bugakova and Tom van den Berg from PlantBeams attended the Biotech Booster Project Day on the 11th of November in Amersfoort Marienhof. The event
Keerthana Mohan has succesfully defended her PhD thesis entieled “Mastering thermocavitation microjets”. The PhD defense took place in the Waaier building at the University of
From 16–17 September 2025, David Fernández Rivas, Alejandra Riveros Cortés, and Santiago Saavedra Castaño represented the University of Twente at the EU Research & Innovation
Daria Bugakova attended the Enschede Slush’D event on behalf of the PlantBeams team. The event took place in UPark hotel, located on the campus of
Tom van den Berg attended GreenTech conference in Amsterdam on June 10th, 2025 on behalf of the PlantBeams team. The changing climate is obviously high
At the Lorentz Center workshop “Sonomechanobiology: Understanding High Frequency Mechanostimulation” (17–21 March 2025, Oort Building, Leiden), PhD candidate Alejandra Riveros Cortés presented her research on
Daria Bugakova, Tom van den Berg and David Fernandez Rivas attended Annual Biotech Booster Event on the 13th of March in AFAS Theater, Leusden. The
Our latest results from the BuBble Gun project are now published by Physics of Fluids AIP Publishing. Jelle Schoppink and Nicolas Rivera studied a mechanism
FlowBeams visited Hello Tomorrow in Paris from March 20-22. Hello Tomorrow is the major European event for deeptech startups and investors. Lea and Jelle represent
FlowBeams, a MedTech spin-off from the University of Twente relying on the BuBble-Gun technology, proudly announces receiving the highly competitive the European Innovation Council (EIC)
David and Jelle attended the NWO Physics conference in Velthoven on January 23 & 24. NWO Physics is the largest physics conference in the Netherlands,
Our new article is published in Applied Physics Letters. It is titled “Laser beam properties control and microfluidic confinement control thermocavitation”. In this study, Jelle
We have been awarded the Edmund Optics Educational Gold award! Last month, it was already announced that we were one of the five finalists in
On Nov 21, Keerthana gave an oral presentation at the American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics conference (APS DFD 2023) in Washington DC,
We are finalists for the Edmund Optics Educational Awards 2023, in the Europe category. The University of Twente and specifically the BubBle-Gun Project has been
On Monday 9th of October, Diana gave a presentation at the NWO Biophysics conference in Vedlhoven, entitled: “controlled needle-free delivery of insulin in ex vivo
A new interview in Amazing Erasmus has been published on the collaboration with Martijn van Doorn from Erasmus MC Hospital. In this interview, David and
Last Friday, Yasmin defended her BSc thesis and received a grade of 7.5. She presented her work titled “Thermocavitation in microfluidic confinement: the influence of
Last Saturday, there was an open house at the university of Twente. About 2500 interested people came to the university to find out more about
Last Monday (May 8th) Martijn Grevink visited our group. He is member of the Dutch House of Representatives, on behalf of the People’s Party for
We have published a new article in Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, in the special issue on ‘Flow and heat transfer in medical science and
Today, Jelle gave an oral presentation at the international conference on multiphase flow (ICMF 2023) in Kobe (Japan). He presented the recent experimental work in
The newest publication from the BuBble-gun team has been selected Featured article in the Physics of Fluids journal! This work isthe result of the visit
While preparing our Bubble-Gun system for actual skin injections using hydrogels we discovered distinct impact behavior based on jet characteristics and material stiffness. As the
Following the work that we did on microfluidic jets impacting on droplets, we decided to squeeze droplets between two glass walls. This allowed us to visualise
Proud and happy to share our needle-free injection research with the new generation! On 31-11-2022 our BuBbble-Gun system was featured in an episode from Klokhuis,
Jelle attended the Nanobubble 2022 conference, hosted by the Otto-Von-Guericke University in Magdeburg (Germany). The conference was well-attended by experts working in the field of
Last month, David and Jelle visited EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland). They were hosted by prof. Christophe Moser and dr. Jan Krizek of the Laboratory of
During the 2022 University of Twente Alumniday, Diana gave a seminar about the history of needles and injections, needle-free injections and the remaining issues with
Winners! We won as FlowBeams, the Magic 50 Award, granted by the Dutch Innovation Days, 2022. The night of the competition, a small group from
Prikken zonder naald: zuiniger en minder pijnlijk Injecting without needles can be done more efficiently and causing less pain. The very prestigious news magazine NRC
The Dutch TV program MAX is focused on high quality informative reports. It covers cultural, educational and scientific developments aimed at integrating the 50+ population
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that we got the Proof of Concept grant to continue developing our needle-free injector prototype! We want to
What a great surprise to start the year knowing that our work Impact of a microfluidic jet on a pendant droplet has been selected for the
During the month of January, 2022, we had the privilege to have in our lab Prof. Andrew Dickerson from Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee.
Jelle and David have recently published a review paper with the title ‘Jet injectors: Perspectives of small volume delivery using lasers‘. The paper was published
David won the University of Twente UT in The Media Award 2021! The Board of Directors of the UT stimulates efforts aimed at disseminating the
It is hard to make pictures of the group, with or without masks, in these pandemic times. There were actually two team members who could
A new PhD student, Claudia Muñoz Villaescusa has joined our team, and will explore different scenarios of small liquid volumes penetration in complex substrates, such
Lea Milovich, co-founder of our spin-off FlowBeams explains (in Dutch) several elements of our plans. In particular, reducing the amount of waste generated with traditional
This year is full of amazing news for the BuBble Gun team, and The Stairway to Impact Awards 2021 is a very good example. It
The World Economic Forum featured our work! David shows the reporters of Reuters how the needle-free injection experiment works link to video. Our mock prototype
Lea and David were representing the science behind BuBle Gun‘s project and the commercial ambitions of FlowBeams at the Techmed event 2021.
I spoke at the World Health Summit about small volume injections without needles: less pain and less waste. The whole ‘New Voices in Global Health’ session can
Reuters presents our work: `Virtually painless’ needle-free injections developed in Netherlands! See also how the World Economic Forum also covered our work in this link to
I am so excited to talk to a promising audience! During the Weekend of Science, it will be the first time I get the opportunity
I have the honour to be the Keynote Speaker to this TechMed event, but what I am very interested is in meeting new collaborators to
De Ingenieur has made a beautiful story about jets and apples (now available in Dutch).
I had the great opportunity to serve as jury of the Translational Potential award during the student’s competition Sensus.