Grants & Awards
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Many TU/e researchers are among the world’s elite within their discipline. We are proud to share our researchers who have received honorable distinctions, research subsidies or awards for their scientific research.
News
[February 26, 2026
NWO Vici grants awarded to Danqing Liu and Richard Lopata
Danqing Liu plans to develop new liquid crystal polymer materials for touch display technologies to enhance user interactivity, while Richard Lopata is aiming...
Read more](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/26-02-2026-nwo-vici-grants-awarded-to-danqing-liu-and-richard-lopata) [February 5, 2026
'Our quality of service must be improved; the user comes first'
[VIDEO] In episode seven of our video series Boardwalk, Vice-President Patrick Groothuis talks about the new operations strategy that is being rolled out.
Read more](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/05-02-2026-our-quality-of-service-must-be-improved-the-user-comes-first)
More news
[Honorary medals for departing Supervisory Board members Wennink and Gunning
November 21, 2025](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/21-11-2025-honorary-medals-for-departing-supervisory-board-members-wennink-and-gunning) [Three TU/e Researchers Awarded Vidi Grant
October 23, 2025](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/23-10-2025-three-tue-researchers-awarded-vidi-grant) [KNAW Early Career Award 2025 for Loe Schlicher
October 16, 2025](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/16-10-2025-knaw-early-career-award-2025-for-loe-schlicher) ['Teachers aren’t genies in a bottle — students have to make the magic themselves'
October 8, 2025](https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/08-10-2025-teachers-arent-genies-in-a-bottle-students-have-to-make-the-magic-themselves)
Gravitation Program
With the Gravitation program, the Dutch Government aims to encourage research by consortia of top researchers in the Netherlands. Researchers must be carrying out innovative and influential research in their field. The Netherlands organization for Scientific Research is realizing the selection procedure for this program with respect to direct government funding at the request of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
- Ethically Responsible Innovations, 2019
- Materials-driven regeneration, 2016 (Eindhoven, Utrecht, UMCU, Hubrecht)
- Netherlands Center for Multiscale Energy Conversion, 2014 (Eindhoven, Utrecht, Enschede)
- Networks, 2014 (Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Leiden, CWI)
- Research Center for Integrated Nano-Photonics, 2014 (Eindhoven)
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Research Center for Functional Molecular Systems, 2013 (Eindhoven, Nijmegen, Groningen)
Recent Grants & Awards
- [2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
EAISI High Tech Systems](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/ed4cd444-ccb1-46f8-92d3-3ba50b0d0957) - [2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Volunteer Certificate
Software Engineering and Technology](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/35fe59a6-29e6-4729-911a-9550ee4a9216) - [2026
From Learning to Healing: Optimization Models for Affordable Precision Medicine
Operations Planning Acc. & Control](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/e81c9c2c-b492-4efb-89e9-84d254dec9b7) - [2026
Elected member Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
ICMS Core](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/32299124-1bf6-4820-8bf5-6aaf349e2a6b) - [2026
IEEE Senior Member
Dynamics and Control](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/3777dbc5-2c13-4b2c-a91a-6612f0e0d724) - [2026
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley
Algebraic Combinatorics](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/4edf82b3-7db5-4bd0-a5f5-270dcc3c5845) - [2025
EAI Fellow for 2025
EAISI Health](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/d5e881bd-781e-4e17-856d-b66d73f6cbb9) - [2025
Highly Cited Paper award
Innovation Technology Entrepr. & Marketing](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/a7cd3320-7e1c-472c-becd-0173d21683ff) - [2025
BJ Max prijs voor aanstormend talent
Real Estate and Urban Development](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/48b11353-22eb-4468-95ab-e55610fd26cc) - [2025
Dr. Wilhelmy VDE Award 2025
Electronic Systems](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/426de253-d014-469a-bff4-385c9293824b) - [2025
IEEE VAST 10-Years Test of Time Award
Mathematics and Computer Science](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/4459c723-05f4-41ab-a6b4-64019bcdbfa5) - [2025
NWO-M2: Can We Use Entropy to Drive Selectivity in Confined Catalysis?
Inorganic Materials & Catalysis](https://research.tue.nl/en/prizes/b1a3b955-d5f0-4c52-9173-ae79a68d8b81)
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International science prizes for Bert Meijer
Nagoya Gold Medal of Organic Chemistry
In 2017, Japan’s highest award for chemistry scientists, the Nagoya Gold Medal of Organic Chemistry, was presented to Bert Meijer, TU/e professor of Organic Chemistry. Meijer thus joins an illustrious group of 22 predecessors, including several winners of Nobel Prizes, Franklin Medals and Wolf Prizes.
Chirality Medal 2018
In 2018 Bert Meijer received the Chirality Medal 2018. This prize is reserved for an elite list of laureates that includes four Nobel prize winners. The Chirality Medal was initiated by the Societa Chimica Italiana in 1991 to honor internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution to the study of chirality.
Topsector HTSM
Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) is the agency that works on behalf of the national government, EU, municipalities and provinces. Together with its partners RVO Nederland works on an economically stronger and more sustainable society. Within the subject of Innovative Entrepreneurship, there are top sectors that have joined together in Top Consortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKI's).
The following projects are co-financed with PPS-allowance for research and development from the HTSM top sector through Holland High Tech: