Institute for Molecules and Materials - Radboud University

Important news: Laser and magnet lab HFML-FELIX, known worldwide as a unique research facility, will continue within a large national partnership consisting of Radboud University, NWO and six other Dutch universities. https://lnkd.in/dTz5VRzU

A consortium including Evan Spruijt from the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) of Radboud University, has been awarded an NWO ENW-XL Open Competition Grant for the project 'Approaching De-Novo Life'. This project aims to create, for the first time, a minimal form of life from synthetic molecules, addressing fundamental questions such as What is life and how did it begin? Congratulations Evan and the team! https://lnkd.in/dtiUG8sB

Evan Spruijt has received an ERC Grant for his project PhaseShape. The ERC Consolidator Grant is designed to support researchers at the stage in which they aim to set up their own independent research team and research programme. Membranes are crucial for the functioning of living cells. They enclose and protect the cell and organize the cellular machinery in subcompartments. Membrane proteins regulate the transport of molecules entering and exiting the cell, which is essential to maintain homeostasis and produce the energy required for life. Spruijt’s project aims to develop coacervate protocells with dynamically controlled properties that are capable of similar functional interactions in synthetic cells. Congratulations Evan! https://lnkd.in/dxg7Urh7

Today we meet for our annual symposium of the institute, the sIMMposium. Researcher from outside and inside IMM share their latest results and PhD candidates showcase their research in research pitches. Everybody enjoyes the lively atmosphere which is really great! #science #sharingresearch #moleculesandmaterials #innovation

Researchers Malte Rösner, Tijs Karman and Christian Büll from our Institute for Molecules and Materials have all been awarded the Vidi grant (up to 850,000 euros) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This funding will help them establish their own research projects and set up research groups over the next five years. Congratulations to you all! 🥳 https://lnkd.in/ddBZ2cYy

𝐍𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩 Het aanpakken van grote maatschappelijke vraagstukken zoals schone energie, duurzame voedselsystemen en beter waterbeheer leunt steeds meer op computationele wetenschap. Om de Nederlandse kennis en innovatie op dit gebied te versterken, is op 15 oktober 2024 de Stichting Computational Science NL opgericht. Dr. Johan Mentink, theoretisch natuurkundige aan de bètafaculteit van de Radboud University, is voorzitter van de stichting. De oprichting van de Stichting Computational Science NL is een uitwerking van de Nationale Agenda voor Computational Science die werd opgesteld door een coalitie van Nederlandse wetenschappers en vertegenwoordigers uit de industrie en gepresenteerd aan het Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2022. De agenda onderstreept het belang van computationele modellen en simulaties bij het vinden van oplossingen voor de uitdagingen van een duurzame toekomst. De nieuw opgerichte stichting richt zich op het opbouwen van een sterke gemeenschap binnen dit vakgebied en stimuleert strategische investeringen in onderzoek, infrastructuur en menselijk kapitaal. De oprichters en eerste leden van het stichtingsbestuur zijn Johan Mentink (Radboud Universiteit, voorzitter), Bianca Giovanardi (Delft University of Technology, secretaris) en Linn Leppert (University of Twente, penningmeester). Samen met Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam), Mark Roest (VORTECH) en Wil Schilders (Eindhoven University of Technology) maken zij ook deel uit van de Computational Science NL Strategy Board, die eerder dit jaar is opgericht. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, het NWO (Dutch Research Council)-instituut voor onderzoek in theoretische informatica en wiskunde, dient als zetel van de stichting. Lees meer: https://lnkd.in/eAvSHu3Z Foto v.l.n.r. Linn Leppert (University of Twente, penningmeester), Johan Mentink (Radboud University, voorzitter) en Bianca Giovanardi (Delft University of Technology, secretaris). Fotograaf: Giulia Pederzani #Radboudscience Institute for Molecules and Materials - Radboud University

A team including researchers from the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) of Radboud University demonstrated the potential of Brownian reservoir computing technology for gesture recognition. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, show that this approach consumes significantly less energy while achieving performance equal or better than conventional techniques. Highligted in https://lnkd.in/eTaitiFJ Congrats to the team! Congrats Johan Mentink and Thomas Brian Winkler from IMM #sustaintabledataprocessing #skyrmions #science https://lnkd.in/dvJS_KXy

Who is going win the Nijmegen Impact Award 2024 ? ☀ Last year TropIQ was proudly nominated as finalist for the Nijmegen Impact Award 2023. Each year our municipality, Gemeente Nijmegen, nominates a few companies that strive for a positive impact on society. Although we did not win the Impact Award in the end, we were honoured to be nominated as impactful company amongst the other nominees (Coöperatie ARBRES, ECO+BOUW Stichting TriUnity, and YouBeDo) that fight for a more sustainable, social, healthier, and equal society! 🍀 🙏 Want to know more about what we do at TropIQ? 🦟 Watch this video which was made in light of our Impact Award nomination last year. https://lnkd.in/ezW-ev4j TropIQ is excited to see who will be the winner of this years Nijmegen Impact Award! Until then you can find TropIQ on the posters around Nijmegen! 😉

Jolijn Onvlee, researcher in the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) of Radboud University, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study cold and controlled reactive molecular collisions. I’m very excited about this grant, which will allow me and my group to advance our highly-controlled reactive collision experiments. In this project, we aim to not only get a detailed understanding of fundamental chemical reactions and their underlying (stereo)dynamics, but to even control their outcomes(…). Congratulations Jolijn! 🥳 https://lnkd.in/d8dCs3um

Bas van de Meerakker, Professor in Spectroscopy of Cold Molecules within the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) at Radboud University has received an NWO Open Competition Domain Science-M Grant for developing new methods to study molecules at extremely low temperatures. Molecular scattering is a fundamental aspect of chemistry, and understanding it in greater detail opens up new possibilities for manipulating reaction outcomes. At ultracold temperatures, below 1 Kelvin, molecular interactions are governed by quantum mechanics, presenting unique opportunities to control and study these processes. Systems with electric dipole-dipole interactions are particularly intriguing because they allow manipulation of collisions using external electromagnetic fields. Congratulations! https://lnkd.in/dpYkdz2h