A new Semester
02/09/2020
This week the new semester started, and I am teaching two courses: Innovating Reactor Systems (Master – including Chemical Engineering programs) Innovation Project (Bachelor Honours
This week the new semester started, and I am teaching two courses: Innovating Reactor Systems (Master – including Chemical Engineering programs) Innovation Project (Bachelor Honours
Our latest accepted paper shows how Process intensification connects scales and disciplines towards sustainability. This was a collaboration with Daria C. Boffito from Polytechnique Montreal,
This short article provides a short overview of my activities valorising scientific knowledge. Its title says a lot! Small bubbles and bubble bags: a scientific
We have finally published in two parts the results of our Lorentz Center event in 2019: Process Intensification education contributes to sustainable development goals (Part
I signed up as expert and member of the Dutch Engineering Society KIVI. I hope to help with my expertise in ultrasonic cleaning to this
It is a great honour to have been admitted to the Global Young Academy! I look forward to advance the role of science in creating
Last Sunday morning, the radio program Fris!, from NPO Radio 1 interviewed me on the phone. They wanted to know more about what is in
The fear of injections draws the attention of the popular RTL EditieNL news in an interview made to the BuBble-Gun team. You can see it
The Journal of Applied Physics has just published our latest results as Microfluidics control the ballistic energy of thermocavitation liquid jets for needle-free injections. We
One of the most renowned and respected journals in The Netherlands has published in print and online, on the special Saturday’s edition, an interview about
I am very proud to see the last paper from my first PhD student being published in such a relevant journal. Influence of Bubbles on
This month has been full with lots of great developments (but also plenty of work). Diana van der Ven and Jelle Schoppink have joined the
The Euraxess website has posted a video/interview with some tips (with English subtitles) about my experiences in applying for ERC grants.
This week I have been supervising a group of students to address a challenge brought up by the company Feltest. The 10th edition of the
The article title is Decoupling Gas Evolution from Water-Splitting Electrodes, and is the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between colleagues from the Physics of Fluids,
The first results of injections into ex-vivo skin with the jet injector I am developing has appeared online, and can be downloaded here. It is
The University Foundation arranged a fundraising action as part of its annual campaign to support improvements of the Quality of life for Diabetics. Last October
The European Research Council has granted 1.5 M Euro to my BuBble Gun project. For a nice interview, follow this link. A more official news
Yesterday we started a week at the Lorentz Center where experts from education, chemical engineering, and industry will be discussing the challenges and opportunities to ensure
One full page on the Saturday April 15th, 2019 edition of The Twentsche Courant Tubantia newspaper published an interview about my research activities and The
The Dutch radio station BNR Nieuws interviewed me on the Needle-free technology that I am developing at the University of Twente. It aired yesterday May
The magazine De Ingenieur has published in its print and online version a very good article about the needle-free injection technology we are developing (in Dutch).
A new publication that results from a collaboration with colleagues in Singapore and Germany is out: In-phase synchronization between two auto-oscillating bubbles. Published in Physical
With the title High-speed imaging of solid needle and liquid micro-jet injections, it has been selected by the Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics as
Yesterday Peter van der Linde received his PhD title from the University of Twente. It has been a great experience to work together for four years.
We talked about an upcoming event, The Future under Our Skin, and how our skin, together with advanced technologies, could one day give us more
Yesterday it was a great opportunity to present part of my research to alumni living in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
I am very excited about the support I have received from the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA), MESA+ Institute, and the Techmed Centre, to organize
This Thursday I will be talking about Hydrogen and some ideas for its future utilization as part of a mini-symposium organized by KIVI. The program
Last November 7th, 2018, I had the great privilege to open the First Congress on Nanobioengineering, as part of the inauguration of the Centro de Investigación en
Our work on Gas bubble evolution on microstructured silicon substrates, is now published in Energy and Environmental Science. The result of a fruitful collaboration with colleagues
On October 2nd, I had the privilege to give an invited talk at EmTech Europe 2018. In a panel discussion on Rewriting Life: Reengineering Our Bodies,
Today I had the great privilege to give an invited keynote presentation and open the Workshop on Cavitation Exploitation organized by Matevž Dular In the
In a short interview, I was able to share some of my dreams and past activities at the University of Twente. You can read the short
Guerrilla Science: Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist by Ernesto Altshuler My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is a beautiful story about science,
A collaboration with colleagues from the Universidad de Sevilla gives monodisperse bubbles with a twist. Novel swirl flow‑focusing microfluidic device for the production of monodisperse
After organizing an event in 2014, Pathways to Solar Hydrogen Technologies, at the prestigious Lorentz Centre, we managed to coordinate the input of 45+ co-authors
Today I will be giving a Keynote presentation at SAFE2018. This event is organized within the three technical Dutch universities of Twente, Delft and Eindhoven.
As part of a collaboration with my colleague Ivo Peters, I will be giving a seminar on April 18th at the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics
This week I had the chance to give a talk at the event organized by Health Valley: https://lnkd.in/ebEiCvB. I shared my vision on how the Operation Room
Last February 19th I was invited to give a lecture entitled Microfluidics and micro-fabrication tricks to improve energy efficiencies of ultrasonic cavitation and electrolysis. A
The most recent “pit” story, as a collaboration’s result, together with colleagues at TU Darmstad: Bubble nucleation from micro-crevices in a shear flow.
Several news-websites replicated the great news, and the printed version of Kijk includes a two-page special report on our idea! From the Kijk magazine website.
Just last week our most recent work on needle-free injection methods was published with title: Toward jet injection by continuous-wave laser cavitation. The article can be
Last week there were two important news: a) PhD student Peter van der Linde gave his first Oral presentation at the most important meeting in his topic
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
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
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
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
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