INNOVATIONAL RESEARCH INCENTIVES SCHEME
In 2000, the Netherlands organization for Scientific Research, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Dutch universities established the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (IRIS). The aim of the program is to give an extra boost to innovative research. The IRIS is a personal grant, offering talented, creative researchers the opportunity to perform their chosen research and to give them a better chance of advancement in academic research institutions.
3 PARTS: vENI, VIDI AND VICI
- Veni: open to applications from recent PhD holders, enabling them to further develop their ideas over a three-year period
- Vidi: for researchers to develop their own innovative research line and appoint one or more researchers
- Vici: for senior researchers to create their own research group
Recent TU/e Veni, Vidi, Vici winners
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NWO Vidi Award : Analog Circuits to the LimitPieter Harpe
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NWO Vidi Award : A miniature bone model
Sandra Hofmann
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NWO Vidi Award : Evolutionary structures under one umbrella
O.T.C. (Oliver) Tse
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NWO Vici Award : Continuous Methods in Discrete Optimization
Nikhil Bansal
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Polymer monolayer electronics
Mengmeng Li
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Stability and structure in infinite-dimensional spaces
Rob H. Eggermont
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Lattices and nearest neighbour searching
Thijs M.M. Laarhoven
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Understanding and controlling the flow of human crowds
Alessandro Corbetta
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The Artificial Ethicists
Elizabeth O'Neill
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Flexible, fast high-voltage pulses for a better environment
Tom Huiskamp
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Two -dimensional materials as innovative contacts to solar cells
Bart Macco
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System for Information-Driven Modeling of Urban Activity-Travel Routines of Generic Households
Soora Rasouli
NWO Spinoza Prize for Rene Janssen
The NWO Spinoza Prize is the highest award in Dutch science. Each year, the Netherlands organization for Scientific Research (in Dutch NWO) awards the Spinoza Prizes to three or four researchers working in the Netherlands, who according to international standards, belong to the absolute top of science. The NWO Spinoza Laureates conduct outstanding and ground-breaking research with a great impact on society. They are an inspiration for young researchers. The prize was first awarded in 1995. The Spinoza award winners of TU/e are Rene Janssen, in 2015 and Bert Meijer, in 2001.
KNAW Academy Professor Program
The Academy Professor Program was founded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (in Dutch KNAW) and is geared to excellent professors that are part of the absolute scientific elite. The aim of the program is to free up these professors for top quality research and to educate researchers.
TU/e professor Bert Meijer is an Academy Professor.
Simon Stevin Masters
The Simon Stevin Master is an honorary title awarded by the NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW, previously Technology Foundation STW) since 1998, to very prominent engineering scientific researchers at Dutch universities and parauniversity institutes. This prestigious Dutch award in technology is given to the best engineering-scientific researchers that have submitted research applications to TTW.
The following TU/e researchers are Simon Stevin Masters: Maarten Steinbuch (2016), Philip de Goey (2010), Jaap Schouten (2006) and Arthur van Roermund (2004).
