If the programs are successful, they will qualify for yet another four-year subsidy. For TU/e the High Potential Research Programs constitute a new way of boosting innovative and high-risk multidisciplinary research programs of preferably young professors and associate professors.

Dr.ir. Arjen Bogaerds and prof.dr.ir. Frans van de Vosse (Department of Biomedical Engineering, BMT) will lead the project ‘Blood in motion’, in which researchers from the BMT, Applied Physics (TN) and Mechanical Engineering (W) Departments will join forces to fathom the processes around the coagulation of blood.

Prof.dr. Emile Aarts (Industrial Design) presented ‘I-lighting the World’, a joint venture between no less than six Departments whose aim will be to develop intelligent lighting. Superfast and low-energy optical chips based on the newest light sources will occupy center stage in the project of prof.dr. Andrea Fiore (TN), who will be working together with researchers of Electrical Engineering. Finally, program leader prof.dr. Rint Sijbesma (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) will be collaborating with colleagues from TN and W to focus on the development of polymers with the special properties of biological materials, featuring in medical applications such as ‘tissue engineering’ in the occiput (the back of the head)./.