Physical chemist Martin Haase is developing nano-structured membranes obtained from ‘bijels’, They enhance the efficiency of turning seawater into drinking water.
They have been awarded the prestigious grant for two years of research, Andrés Romanowski in Environmental Biology and Huaiyang Yuan in Theoretical Physics.
Martinus Veltman passed away on 4 January 2021. Veltman was a Professor at Utrecht University from 1966 to 1981 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999.
Researchers from Utrecht University and Nikhef, among others, are publishing a study in Science that addresses no less than two essential questions in astrophysics.