POSTDOC | Best Paper Award

Chaired by Dr. Barry W. Fitzgerald 

15h30 - Coffee & tea

16h00 - Welcome 

16h10 - Introduction of the Jury

• Dr. Federica Eduati - Biomedical Engineering
• Dr. Marta Costa Figueiredo - Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
• Prof. Martijn Heck - Electrical Engineering
• Dr. Mauro Salazar - Mechanical Engineering

16h15 - Pitches of the 10 finalists 

• Leo Tiokhin -  Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences
  Competition for priority harms the reliability of science, but reforms can help      
   
• Navchetan Awasthi - Biomedical Engineering
  Mini-COVIDNet: Efficient Lightweight Deep Neural Network for Ultrasound Based Point-of-Care Detection of COVID-19         
   
• Feiran Zhang - Industrial Design
  Social sharing of task-related emotions in Design-Based Learning: Challenges and opportunities
   
• Debargha Dey - Industrial Design
  Towards Scalable eHMIs: Designing for AV-VRU Communication Beyond One Pedestrian 
   
• Shalika Walker - Built Environment
  Improving energy self-sufficiency of a renovated residential neighborhood with heat pumps by analyzing smart meter data       
     
• Martijn Schoot Uiterkamp - Mathematics and Computer Science
  A Class of Convex Quadratic Nonseparable Resource Allocation Problems with Generalized Bound Constraints      
       
• Roderick Tas - Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
  Small Peptide–Protein Interaction Pair for Genetically Encoded, Fixation Compatible Peptide-PAINT  
   
• Tim Hogervorst - Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
  Single-molecule imaging of glycan–lectin interactions on cells with Glyco-PAINT      
   
• Stein Stoter - Mechanical Engineering
  Discontinuous Galerkin methods through the lens of variational multiscale analysis         
   
• Trung Tran - Electrical Engineering
  An average consensus-based power-sharing among VOC-based distributed generations in multi-bus islanded microgrids        

17h15 - Break for jury evaluation & celebration of PDA 2^nd anniversary with small talks by:

• Prof. Frank Baaijens - Rector Magnificus
• Willem van Hoorn - PDA co-founder

17h45 - Announcements of the winners & prize ceremony

18h00 - Drinks  

19h00 - End of the event

TU/e Postdoc Association in close cooperation with TU/e institutes:

• ICMS | Institute for Complex Molecular Systems
• EAISI | Eindhoven AI Systems Institute
• EIRES | Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems
• EHCI | Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute