2025
In 2025, we are happy to welcome three new PhD students to the group: Pramita, Ward, and Rense. We wish them a lot of success and an inspiring journey during their PhD projects.
We are pleased to announce that Ghislaine has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations!
Group retreat in Mainz
In September, our group visited the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz for a retreat combined with a scientific symposium. We thank the organizing team, and in particular Giulia Lavarda, for the excellent organization and warm hospitality.
Congratulations to Adam Muller for being awarded the best BEP thesis in the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry!
2024
Anjali Devi Das was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will be co-supervised by Danqing Liu and Ghislaine Vantomme and will work on ferroelectric nematics. Many congratulations Anjali!
2023
Beginning of December, members of Vantomme Lab celebrated the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition and enjoyed various traditional snacks. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Beginning of November, we visited Limburg as part of our annual group retreat, which included a company visit to Brightlands Chemelot Campus, a nice talk by “hamburger professor” Dr. Mark Post (Mosa Meat), a mini-symposium and some fun activities
To give students an insight into the research done in the Vantomme group, Bart van den Bersselaar wrote an article in the T-licht, the association magazine of T.S.V. ‘Jan Pieter Minckelers’.
2022
On May 12th, Ghislaine Vantomme was nominated for the Groundbreaking Research Award during the TU/e Research Day. Photography by Bart van Overbeeke.
2021
Ghislaine Vantomme made it to the finals of the Dream Chemistry Award with “Supramolecular Wires for Brain-Inspired Computing”. Congratulations to Ghislaine!
A special issue of Journal of Polymer Science on polymer science and technology at ICMS. This issue includes work from our group on discrete oligodimethylsiloxanes in bulk and supramolecular polymers in solution.
Eindhoven researchers found that thin plastics can also synchronize their swing, similar to what Christiaan Huygens observed in the 17th century. Read more about this interesting phenomenon in Nature Materials, or at the Cursor or NEMO kennislink for a shorter read.
2019
How great would it be if a phone screen could repair itself? Ghislaine Vantomme explains her research at eye-openers, an online stage for scientists where they tell about their research and what inspires them.
Ghislaine Vantomme is appointed as assistant professor! We wish her the best for fostering her headway and are excited to see the future of responsive materials, soft robotics and non-covalent chemistry!
2017
Meijerlab present at the Molecular Machines Nobel Prize Conference 2017.