Lisa speaks at the 2025 Liquid Crystals Gordon Conference. (July 2025)
Elvy Tanck joins as a bachelor student in the group. Welcome! (April 2025)
Lisa is awarded an NWO M2 grant to study liquid crystal biosensors, in collaboration with Siddharth Deshpande (WUR). Exciting research to come! (February 2025)
Mengjun Liu visits from South China Normal University. Welcome! (November 2024)
Karolína Zemene joins as a bachelor student in the group. Welcome! (September 2024)
Lisa is awarded Elsevier's Best Oral Presentation award at the 2024 ECIS in Copenhagen. (September 2024)
Noa de Been joins as a bachelor student in the group. Welcome! (April 2024)
Lisa has been elected for the Utrecht Young Academy! (March 2024)
Anne Meike Hogeweg, Ilja van der Marck, and Stephen Yang join for their bachelor projects. Welcome!! (February 2024)
Riya Banerjee joins for her master project. Welcome Riya! (September 2023)
Linet Koopman joins for her bachelor project. Welcome Linet! (April 2023)
Lotte Polling joins for her bachelor project. Welcome Lotte! (February 2023)
Geert Schulpen rejoins the group as a PhD candidate through the Science for Sustainability program. Welcome back Geert! (December 2022)
Alex Nijland joins for his bachelor project. Welcome! (December 2022)
Ivo Vermaire joins as a PhD candidate. Welcome Ivo! (June 2022)
Albert Grau Carbonell joins as a joint postdoc with the group of Alfons van Blaaderen. Welcome Albert! (April 2022)
Ethan Jull wins a Marie Curie grant, hosted by our group! Much deserved!! (March 2022)
Thijmen van Voorthuizen joins for his MSc internship. Welcome Thijmen! (March 2022)
Yoldaş Cinemre and Willem Kalkman join the group for their bachelor projects. Welcome! (February 2022)
Lisa got the NWO Veni grant! (December 2021)
Steven Remiëns starts an MSc thesis with us. Welcome Steven! (November 2021)
Mengwei Li joins the team as a joint PhD candidate with dr. Martin Haase. Welcome Mengwei! (November 2021)
Rama Kotni joins the team as a joint postdoc with prof. dr. Alfons van Blaaderen and dr. Gerhard Blab. Welcome Rama! (September 2021)
Ethan Jull joins the team as a postdoc. Welcome Ethan! (March 2021)
Geert Schulpen starts an MSc thesis with us, co-advised by dr. Laura Filion. Welcome Geert! (February 2021)
Diogo Saraiva joins the team as a PhD candidate. Welcome Diogo! (January 2021)
Lisa begins the Marie Curie project, EXCHANGE_inLCs! (November 2020)
Lisa joins the physics department at Utrecht University! (November 2020)
Lisa wins the Glenn Brown Prize of the International Liquid Crystal Society! (May 2020)
Diogo and Ethan organized lab demonstrations for high school students. As part of U-Talent's masterclass called, "The confrontation with Einstein," the students had a great time working on experiments about Brownian motion and liquid crystals! (October 2021)