Awards


Grants & Awards

Awards

Award description Organisation/event Comment Date
Engineers Ireland Biomedical Research Medal Engineers Ireland
EI
Awarded annually to a PhD student deemed to be making a significant contribution to the field of biomedical engineering research in Ireland. Paper: “Towards the Non-Invasive Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Living Human Soft Tissue”. 2010
The Royal Academy of Medicine Ireland Bronze Medal The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland
STW
Best paper at the 15th Annual Conference Bioengineering in Ireland 15th, Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, (Limerick, Ireland, Feb. 2009). Paper: “A validation method for motion tracking techniques based on tagged magnetic resonance imaging” 2009
KIVI Best engineering bachelor degree final thesis of the Netherlands, 3rd prize Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands
KIVI
Thesis: "The Design and Development of an Autonomic Solar Powered, Mobile Concentrate Feeding Robot for the Dairy Industry." 2005
VSBFonds travel/study scholarship VSBFonds
VSBfonds
€7000 award to study abroad. Awarded for pursuing MSc in Bioengineering at Trinity College Dublin 2004

Grants

Grant description Sponsor Amount Role Date
NIH R01 EB024531-01 National Insitute of Health (NIH)
NIBIB
$1,600,000 Co-author, Key person (Research Scientist) 2017
NWO (STW 12398) Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
STW
€710,500 Co-author, Key person (Postdoctoral Researcher) 2013