RSA CE&C 2015-2021

1. Introduction 13 Table 2: Research staff of the department from 2015 to 2021. FTE 1 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Full prof. 15.2 13.3 13.0 14.1 14.7 15.8 15.3 Associate prof. 7.5 8.6 8.3 7.0 5.7 4.7 4.0 Assistant prof. 15.4 13.0 12.8 12.6 16.2 16.4 15.9 Total prof. 38.1 34.9 34.1 33.7 36.6 36.9 35.2 Postdocs 48.8 50.7 49.6 53.9 52.0 51.4 44.9 PhD students 2 200.3 191.5 204.1 205.6 204.8 211.3 216.4 Total research staff 287.2 277.1 287.8 293.2 293.4 299.6 296.5 1 Full-time equivalent, i.e., total time of appointment; available for research, education and organizational tasks 2 PhD students, including both fully employed by the department and externally or internally funded but not employed by the department Many researchers of the department are actively involved in interdisciplinary TU/e research at the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) and the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES). 1 Prof. Bert Meijer of the department is the founding director of ICMS, while Prof. Emiel Hensen was closely involved in the creation of EIRES. Besides enhancing multidisciplinary research in collaboration with industry, the institutes also coordinate e.g., TU/e involvement in the definition of external research programs or the writing of large research grants applications. The involvement of many researchers of the department in the definition of several joint National Growth Fund 2 proposals on ‘Self-thinking molecular systems’, ‘Sustainable materials NL’, ‘Green hydrogen (Groenvermogen)’ and ‘Alkaline electrolysers’ are examples of this. Strong collaborative ties exist with the Departments of Biomedical Technology (BMT) and Applied Physics (AP) regarding, amongst other things, shared professorships between the two departments, joint research projects and the sharing of equipment, infrastructure and laboratories. Apart from collaboration within TU/e, the department puts much effort into collaboration with other universities and universities of applied science at the level of individual (groups of) researchers and in strategic knowledge alliances with, for example, Utrecht University, Wageningen University and University Medical Center Utrecht. Together with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Technion and the Institute Polytechnique de Paris, TU/e is a partner to the EuroTech Universities Alliance, a strategic partnership of leading European universities of science and technology that collectively aim for first-class research, education and innovation through the sharing of curricula, PhD research exchanges and flagship projects, such as the EuroTechPostdoc program, the European Venture program and the EuroTeQ Engineering University program. The researchers of the department also collaborate extensively with national and international universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes and industries in public-private partnerships and bilateral collaborations. Examples include strategic partnerships such as Chemelot InSciTe, the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT), the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), the Materials Innovation Institute (M2i), NanoNextNL, CatchBio and the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC 1 The cross-disciplinary research institutes of TU/e combine the scientific and technological strengths of the researchers in the departments of the university with industrial needs. TU/e has four research institutes: the Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI), the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES), the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) and the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (EHCI). 2 The National Growth Fund is an initiative of the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and Finance, providing €20 billion for large-scale investment projects and programs lead by industry. Projects and programs must contribute to the sustainable earning power of the Netherlands. https://www.nationaalgroeifonds.nl/over-het- nationaal-groeifonds