Prizes, awards and grants

2022

• RU Faculty of Science Team Science Award
  for the collaborative project 'National Individual floating Transport Infrastructure (NIfTI)

2021

• Radboud Excellence Initiative Fellowship
  To gain a better understanding of high temperature superconductors
• Partner Max Planck-Radboud University Centre for Infrared Free-Electron Laser Spectroscopy
  To enable active exchange of knowledge and personnel and push the application and development of free-electron lasers forward
• Best graphical abstract 
  Infrared ion spectroscopy for true molecular identification in mass spectrometry imaging
• NWO team science Award
  For the collaborative project 'National Individual floating Transport Infrastructure (NIfTI)
• Best poster prize NWO CHAINS, the annual Dutch chemistry conference
  Category ' Fundamentals and Methods of Chemistry '

2020

• NWO Vici grant
  Unravel and ultimately control peptide aggregation
• NWO National Roadmap Grant
  The development of advanced instrumentation and new experimental techniques
  
• NWO ENW GROOT grant
  Merge of two major fields of physics research, to arrive at new materials classes and find what new physics emerges
• EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
  European Training Network on catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation
• Dutch Research Agenda Programme
  Look way back in time and create an image of the universe when it was only a second old
• EPSRC fellowship 
  Gain a better understanding on high temperature superconductivity

2019

• Russian MegaGrant
  Establish a new laboratory at the Kotelnikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics (Moscow), aimed to develop new principles for ultrafast energy-efficient processing and transmission of information based on spintronics and spin-photonics.
• University Study Awards 2019
  Experimental design that can be used by physicists visiting Nijmegen from around the world.
• NWO Rubicon Grant
  Develop a new way of producing Josephson junctions within a single material at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
• ERC advanced grant
  To understand superconductivity and create a pathway towards room temperature.
• Interregional Science Prize for European Magnetometry Network
  For its collaborative fundamental research and R&D activities.
• NWO 'physics projectruimte' grant
  For new ways to store data using light-induced switching of magnetic bits.
• RU Interfaculty cooperation grant FELIX- Radboudumc
  To establish a metabolite identification service that will be open to interested parties worldwide.
• Radboud Science Green IT voucher
  To create a network of private-public partnership on concepts of data storage.
• Poster prizes at CHAINS
• Flash poster prize on NVMS-BSMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
  For convincingly presenting a poster about small molecule identification with IRIS: development and applications.

2018

• John B. Fenn ASMS Award
  For pioneering contributions to the development of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS).
  
• National Roadmap Grant
  To enable an expansion in the capabilities of the suite of free-electron lasers and to install three dedicated research laboratories
• NWO Start up
  To establish a novel spectroscopic method to acquire high-resolution rotational spectra of molecular ions under isolated conditions in a cryogenic ion trap instrument.
• IMM thesis award
  For outstanding work on the fundamental understanding of the shape transformation of nanovesicles in an interdisciplinary research environment.
• NWO Materials for sustainability
  To convert greenhouse gas into fuel.
• EU FET open grant
  To increase yields in agri- and horticulture with a new approach, based on the development and application of molecular temperature controllers.
• NWO LIFT grant
  To target the structural analysis of metabolic products of novel pharmaceuticals.

2017

• MSSJ life-time achievement award
  For outstanding efforts and commitment on magneto science in general and  the development of the HFML and the application of high magnetic fields to soft matter.
• Audience award Radboud Talks
  How proteins ‘dance’ in infrared laser light.
• NWO TTW grant
  To develop analytical applications of the infrared ion spectroscopy (IRIS) method originally developed at FELIX.
• Christine Mohrmann fellow
  To study the formation of complex molecules from single atoms.
• NWO  DAN II grant
  For new projects on chemical reactions in space.
• Marie Curie Fellowship
  To study the optical properties of novel two dimensional semiconductors.

2016

• FOM grants
  For innovative physics involving FELIX.
• FOM Strange Metals Programme
  To investigate the origin of this strange metallic behaviour.
  
• Radboud Education Prize
  For best junior lecturer at Radboud University
• Poster Prize Symposium Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC)
  For the poster on applications of infrared ion spectroscopy

2015

• STW grant
  For the program ‘Innovative Magnetic Density Separation for the optimal use of resources and energy’
• FOM Minerva Prize
  For research on a new, innovative method to obtain information about the three-dimensional structure of small biological molecules. This method is the first to make use of far infrared light for this purpose.
• NWO Vidi grant
  To provide a firm base for the determination of the extraterrestrial forms and formats of PAH's by measuring the infrared characteristics of astronomically sized PAHs (approximately 50-100 carbon atoms)
• Mildred Dresselhaus Award
  The junior ‘young star’ award for successful work in physical chemistry specializing on the investigation of biomolecular systems like proteins.
• Faculty of Science Education award
  With the education award, the Faculty of Science aims to honour a noteworthy accomplishment in education that has a long lasting impact.