People – MultiPhase Matters

Gordon Research Conference

The GRC Conference “Granular Matter” was held again at Stonehill College.

Tom Mullin visits

Tom Mullin was visiting us this week, to discuss our projects on sinking (and rising) intruders in soft hydrogel packings. We had a great time with many inspiring discussions to stimulate another work of science. The first year students helping out on the project could also join for the dinner, connecting several generations of scientists!

Salamina Grain Workshop

Traveling to Masseria Salamina for a fantastic setting to do science in small groups. The location was perfect, food was amazing, the pool refreshing, and despite the distraction, lots of science got done. And Bari, the closest major town, has huge grains for coastal protection.

Science fair fun

We had a demo at the annual EXPEDITIE NEXT, in Zwolle this time. We’ll be back next year with more fluidized beds, hourglasses, kinetic sand, Janssen effects and maybe more!

The gravity of the situation

Visiting Olfa D’Angelo doing hypergravity research on granular materials at ESA / ESTEC in Noordwijk. The museum visit was the cherry on the cake.

What if…

Your drink also has… particles! Then you either love particles and see them everywhere, or you are tipsy. Or both,

Particles 2023

The Particles 2023 was hosted in Milan this year. As always it was good to catch up with colleagues and friends: Chris, Lou, Riccardo, Vanessa, Rouven and many others were there to connect about, yes, particles!

Thanks Ken

Thanks Ken Kamrin for sending me the latest and best text book on solid mechanics!

Hosting CALIPER students and supervisors

The research network CALIPER is coming to an end, but the team is already gearing up to make new collaborations. We had a good time with a lab visit and return to the place where also the CALIPER kick-off was organized, at H401.

Dutch Soft Robotics Meeting

We were kindly welcomed by Aimee Sakes and Cosimo Della Santina at some of the robotics labs at TU Delft. Due to a local storm, some attendees could only join online, but it was a successful meeting nonetheless