Awards and specific scholarships

2008

·	Sandro Etalle, Damiano Bolzoni and Emmanuele Zambon STW valorization grant phase 2, Security Matters, December 2008.

·	Lodewijk Bergmans and Gürcan Gülesir STW valorization grant phase 2, BloomWise, December 2008.

·	Peter-Paul Verbeek (Philosophy group): Member of “De Jonge Akademdie”, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, November 2008.

·	Nina Schaap (Centre for Transport Studies); Award for the Best Science Paper, the 10^th International Trail Congres, October 2008.

Djoerd Hiemstra (Database group):
VIDI grant for his research on “Distributed Information Retrieval by means of Keyword Auctions”. This is the second VIDI-project in the Database Group. For more information on the grants, please visit the NWO site: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7H8BF3

·	Maria Lijding and Nirvana Meratnia (Pervasive Systems group):

STW valorization grant phase 2, Smart Signs, July 2008.

·	Anne Remke (Design and Analysis of Communication Systems group):

Second price KIVI NIRIA Telecommunications Award 2008 with the presentation "Two hop ad hoc networks: Setting the parameters right".

·	Desi Dimitrova, Hans van den Berg, Geert Heijenk, together with Remco Litjens (TNO-ICT):

Best paper award at the 6th International Conference on Wired and Wireless Internet Conference.

·	Maja Pantic (Human Machine Interaction group and Imperial College London):

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, 2008

·	Lucia Cloth (Design and Analysis of Communication Systems group): Dissertation Award of the German computer science societies GI and ITG, 2008.

·	Pavel Serdyukov (Databases)

Best student paper award at the European Conference on Information Retrieval in Glasgow

2007

·	Bram Nauta (Integrated Circuit Design group):

IEEE Fellow, class 2008

·	Rajan Srinivasan (Telecommunications Engineering group):

IEEE Fellow, class 2008

·	Boudewijn Haverkort (Design and Analysis of Communication Systems group):

IEEE Fellow, class 2007

·	Georg Still (Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming group):

EUROPT Fellow 2007

·	Peter-Paul Verbeek (Philosophy group):

NWO VIDI, 2007

·	Gürcan Gülesir and Lodewijk Bergmans (Software Engineering group):

STW valorization grant phase 1, BloomWise, 2007

·	Maria Lijding and Nirvana Meratnia (Pervasive Systems group):

STW valorization grant phase 1, Smart Signs, 2007

·	Sandro Etalle, Emanuele Zambon, Damiano Bolzoni and Pieter Hartel (Distributed and Embedded Security group)

STW valorization grant phase 1, intrusion detection, 2007

·	Paul Havinga (Pervasive Systems group):

ICT Regie Innovation Award 2007, Ambient Systems

·	Paul Havinga (Pervasive Systems group):

Van den Kroonenbergprijs 2007, Ambient Systems

·	Dhaval Vyas and Olga Kulyk (Human Machine Interaction group):

SenterNovem Design Contest 2007

·	Djoerd Hiemstra (Databases group):

Yahoo Faculty Grant, 2007

·	Ton de Jong (Instruction Technology group):

Kaleidoscope European award for technology transfer, 2007

·	W.L. Drewes, Bart van Arem, W.F.M. Spit, J.W. Goemans (Centre for Transport Studies):

Best conference contribution verkeerskundige werkdagen 2007

·	Ward van Wanrooij (Design and Analysis of Communication Systems group):

Bakkenist prize 2007

·	Wim van Etten (Telecommunications Engineering group):

Two articles in the IEEE's ComSoc ‘The Best of the Best’, 2007

2006

·	Machiel van der Bijl / Axel Belinfante:

STW grant "Oriëntatie op ondernemerschap"

·	Chris Vissers

Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau (Royal honour)

2005:

·	Betty Collis

Best Practice Award (American Society for Training and Development)

·	Asker Bazen:

STW Valorisation Grant: Biometric Spin-off

·	Peter Apers

Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau (Royal honour)

·	Rachid Ait Yaiz:

KIVI NIRIA Telecommunications Award 2005

·	Hans van den Berg:

TNO Senior Research Fellow

·	Manfred Reichert / Stefanie Rinderle:

IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award

·	Paul Heysters:

STW Valorisation Grant: Karma Chameleon, Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Systems-on-a-chip

·	Philip Brey:

NWO-Vici Award for the research project ‘New Media and the Quality of Life’.

·	Zsofia Ruttkay:

Szent-Gyorgyi Fellowship Award (Hungarian Ministry of Education)

·	Fredo Schotanus:

IPSERA Bursary Paper Award 2005

2004:

·	Ling Feng NWO/VIDI-grant for the research project ‘Context-Aware Data Management’.

·	Betty Collis received 'leading international expert' award. She received this honour in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the development of e-learning and the application of computers and the Internet in education.

·	Tom Broens KIVI-OOST/UT prize 2003 for his traineeship entitled "Bandwidth optimization of the TMSI fiber protocol" performed at Twente Medical Systems International.

2003:

·	Sonia Heemstra de Groot: Marina van Damme award 2003;

·	Patricia Dockhorn Costa: Civi Industry award 2003 in the discipline computer science for the project ‘A services platform for context-aware applications’;

·	Arend Rensink: Award for the Best Tool Demonstration (GROOVE simulator, a tool for graph-based state space generation) given out during the workshop ‘Applications of graph transformations with industrial relevance’, Virginia (USA), Sept. 2003;

·	Hans Achterhuis: Pierre Bayle award 2003, Rotterdamse Kunststichting;

·	Peter-Paul Verbeek: VENI-grant for the research project ‘Technology and the matter of morality’;

·	Mariët Theune: NWO Meervoud project ‘A Natural-language generator for embodied, lifelike conversational agents’.