On June 14, Setareh Kazemzadeh successfully defended her PhD thesis in an international committee comprising: Yoeri van de Burgt and Jaap den Toonder as her promotors, Rene Janssen and Gerwin Gelinck from TU/e, Sahika Inal from KAUST, Alec Talin from Sandia National Lab and Fabio Biscarini from University of Modena. Congratulations Dr. Kazemzadeh!
On May 25th Eveline van Doremaele successfully defended her PhD thesis for an international committee comprising: Yoeri and Jaap as her promoters, George Malliaras from Cambridge University, Jonathan Rivnay from Northwestern University, Francesca Santoro from RWTH Aachen, Simone Fabiano from Linkoping University and Bert Meijer from TU/e.
Bob Huisman has joined our group as PhD student working on the IPM project with Bas Overvelde. More information can be found in the People section.
The Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) has funded the Gravitation Program Interactive Polymer Materials (IPM) headed by Jan van Hest and Patricia Dankers. Our group will work together with Bas Overvelde (AMOLF / TU/e) on a project to develop smart and autonomous robotic systems, that can be optimized for various specific tasks while continuously adapting to their environment and changing input parameters.
In a series of 2 papers published in Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials, Yanxi Zhang, Eveline van Doremaele and a range of collaborators both inside TU/e and out, have demonstrated a novel NDI-based polymer with outstanding properties. We investigated the role of ethylene glycol side chains to optimise its performance for OECTs and neuromorphic devices (link) and demonstrated an adaptive neuromorphic sensor circuit that can locally modulate and classify biosignals, all based on a single material (link).
An interview with Yoeri van de Burgt and Paschalis Gkoupidenis was published in Scientific American. In this interview the paper by Imke Krauhausen in Science Advances was further discussed, as well as the future research directions of this collaboration. Find the original paper here, and the related press release by TU/e and Max Planck.
In a collaborative effort between ICMS and Max Planck Institute, together with Stanford, Oxford and more, Imke’s work show how we can train a robot to find its way through a maze using a polymer circuit. We equipped a toy robot with a smart and adaptive electrical circuit made of soft organic materials, similarly to the biological matter. With this bio-inspired approach, they were able to teach the robot to navigate independently through a maze using visual signs for guidance. Find Read more…
Yoeri has been promoted to Associate Professor at the department of Mechanical Engineering from December 1st 2021. With this new role he hopes to further strengthen his research within the department as well as leading a multidisciplinary research group as a more independent principle investigator (P.I.). Of course this promotion was not possible without the help of all current and former Neuromorphic Engineering students, postdocs, collaborators as well as friends and family and everyone in the Microsystems section, in particular Read more…
Yoeri was selected as a co-chair, together with Patty Stabile at Electrical Engineering, of the Focus Area Neuromorphic Computing of the newly established Hendrik Casimir Institute.
In this public lecture (in Dutch), Yoeri is explaining the basis of the research in our group where we use materials to develop devices that mimic some properties of the synapses in the brain, to ultimately make smart chips, sensors and circuits.
