NWO news update for the
Physics of Fluids & Soft Matter
research community
nr.004 | April – June 2020 Publication date: July 6, 2020
News
• The FSM committee will have two vacancies by the end of this year as both Michel Versluis and Martin van Hecke will leave the committee. You can submit your suggestions for new committee members to the FSM secretary until Oct 31 (ResearchCommunity-FSM@nwo.nl).
• Dr. Janne-Mieke Meijer will start as an Assistant Professor at TU/e as of July 1st, 2020 (link)
• Prof. dr. Marjolein Dijkstra (UU) is selected as new member of the Royal Academy (link)
• Prof. dr. Johan Padding (TUD) joins NWO Chemistry Round Table (link)
• Dr. Florian Muijres (WUR) wins Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2019 (link)
• CHAINS 2020 and Physics@Veldhoven 2021 go digital (link)
• Dutch Physics Council invites nominations for the best physics PhD thesis 2020, named Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest thesis award (deadline Oct 1, 2020) (link)
• ESRF is looking for a director of research for life sciences, chemistry and soft matter (link)
Granted projects (Apr – Jun 2020)
OPEN COMPETITION / OTP
No FSM projects
TALENT
Rubicon round 2019-3 (link)
Turbulent path to fusion power Dr I. (Ivana) Abramovic (f)
Eindhoven University of Technology -> United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 24 months
Artificial morphogenesis of soft materials Dr F. (Federico) Lancia (m)
University of Twente -> United States, Northwestern University, Simpson Querrey Institute, 24 months
Public-private collaboration
No grants since April 2020.
NWO calls
OPEN COMPETITON TALENT Dutch Research
Agenda (NWA) Public-private
collaboration INFRA ENW XS
1 Sep 2020 Rubicon ENW Temporarily closed
NWA-ORC 2020 To be announced
Thematic calls 7 thematic calls will open in July 2020, deadline Jan 2021
NWO GROOT Temporarily closed
ENW KLEIN Continuous application
VENI 2020 Temporarily closed
NWA Idea Generator Temporarily closed
Partnerships Counter for co- financing partners is open;
Call for consortia is in development.
ENW GROOT Temporarily closed
VIDI 2020 6 Oct 2020
Small projects for NWA routes 2020 29 Oct 2020
Strategic collaborations Call will open in autumn 2020
TTW OTP Continuous application
VICI 2020
Temporarily closed
Support for NWA route management Continuous application
TTW Perspectief 8 Sept
(full proposals) New round opening soon (link).
NWA Science communication 22 Sept 2020 NWO Scientific meetings and consultations
Continuous application
* PPP: Public-Private Partnerships; KIC: Knowledge and Innovation Convenant
Events & meetings
CHAINS 8 - 9 Dec 2020 Online
Physics@Veldhoven 18 – 20 Jan 2021 Online
For questions, ideas and news items, please contact:
Dr. Bram Borkent, secretary of the advisory committee for the Physics of Fluids & Soft Matter research community +31 (0)30 600 1310, ResearchCommunity-FSM@nwo.nl
