TU Delft Applied Sciences Graduates of the Year 2022-2023

Damián Vico van Berkel’s Master’s thesis in Chemical Engineering was awarded a grade of 9.5. He carried out his research for his thesis entitled, ‘Towards a new generation of kinetic studies Combination of isotope labelling with spatiotemporally resolved methodologies for enhanced mechanistic understanding’ with a considerable degree of independence and without a daily supervisor. He also won the best poster prize for presenting his work at the NCCC congress last spring in Noordwijkerhout. Damián decided to continue with his PhD research in the group of Professor Urakawa.

Tess Bevers started her Master's programme in Life Science and Technology at TU Delft in September 2020. She graduated cum laude and also completed the Honours Master’s Programme. She was a member of the Board of Studies, on which she played an active part. Tess was an excellent, enthusiastic, and committed student with a passion for her studies and her study environment. She has recently embarked on creating a startup in the ‘Entrepreneur First’ startup accelerator, which is backed by key figures, including the founder of Google’s Deep Mind.

Vincent Kruit did his final Nanobiology Master’s project with Dr Joyce Lebbink of the Erasmus University Medical Center on the role of nucleotide binding and hydrolysis in the mismatch repair protein, MutS. He impressed his supervisors immensely with his analytical mind, productivity, detailed understanding of the biological system, and his work ethic. He is a biochemist to the core. The quality of his work is exceptional and his results and figures are to be included in a manuscript to be submitted for publication. Vincent has great enthusiasm for experimental lab work. His ambition is to pursue a PhD in the Life Sciences.

When Sybe Adringa started his Master’s Communication Design for Innovation (CDI) programme, his main motivation was that he wanted to learn and develop as much as possible. He wrote a fully-fledged thesis for both his CDI Master’s and his Engineering and Policy Analysis Master’s (TPM), which was awarded a 9. Sybe was part of the board of the InterSECtion study association and was a student assistant on various courses. He is currently travelling through south-east Europe and Turkey. In January, he will start working for the Connekt Foundation, a network organisation that strives to connect parties in the mobility and transport sector. 

Francesco Zatelli entered his Applied Physics Master’s programme through a QuTech merit scholarship. His focus and interest were on mastering fields in the domain of quantum computer and quantum information. He excelled in his courses, usually achieving extraordinary grades, resulting in a final GPA of 9.33. For his Master’s thesis project, he joined Professor Kouwenhoven’s group to work on spin-orbit interaction on elastic co-tunnelling and crossed Andreev reflection. His findings resulted in three scientific papers, which were published in prestigious journals. After a traineeship at ETH Zurich, where he was working on superconducting qubits, he returned to QuTech for a PhD project.