ERC Advanced Grant for physicist Marjolein Dijkstra – 2.5 Million Euros for research on making passive nanomaterials alive

Prof. Marjolein Dijkstra (Physics) has been granted an ERC Advanced Grant. This is the highest research grant of the European Research Council, annually granted to exceptional and trailblazing senior researchers. Prof. Dijkstra will receive 2.5 million euros for her project Rational Design of Soft Hierarchical Materials with Responsive Functionalities: Machine learning Soft Matter to create Soft Machines. Read more about the ERC grant here.