On 16 September 2021 Sybrand van der Zwaag, head of the Novel Aerospace Materials group, will retire. He joined the TU Delft in 1992 when he became full professor Microstructural Control in Metals at the faculty Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (later being part of TNW). In 2004 he joined the faculty of Aerospace Engineering to set-up the Novel Aerospace Materials group.

Two 4TU materials scientists at the University of Twente and their consortia will launch a research programme as part of the NWO Perspective programme. By ‘Reducing CO2 emissions by making vehicles lighter’ (ENLIGHTEN) and through ‘Better separation technology for the reuse of raw materials’ (ReCoVr). 

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As of 14 February 2020, dr. Marcel Sluiter has been appointed visiting professor in the Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University. He will conduct academic education and research in the field of Microstructures of Materials.