Caneva Lab

Congrats to Seiya who successfully defended his MSc thesis on SH-SAW mapping!

Congrats to Jasmijn, Sem, Kaz and Mathijs who completed their BEP end project!

Xiliang successfully defends her PhD thesis and is now Dr Yang! Congrats!

Yugyeong's paper is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congrats!

Daria's paper is published in Nano Letters. Congrats!

Happy 6 year Lab Anniversary to the whole group!

Hande wins a prize for Best Poster at IWEPNM 2026. Congrats!

Sabina visits TU/e and gives an inivted talk on recent lab highlights. Thanks Martin Lee for the invitation!

Secret Santa at the SabLab!

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Welcome to Marijn and Nicolas who started their PhDs with us this week!

Daria presents her PhD work at the PicoQuant Workshop 2025

Xiliang presents her Nanosphere work at MNE 2025

Isabella, Pleun, Florine and Max present their BEP end project, congrats on the nice work!

Dong Hoon's paper on DNA diffusion on hBN is published in ACS Nano, congrats!

Xiliang's paper on hBN/microspheres is published  in Nanophotonics, congrats!

Sabina is promoted to Associate Professor!

Sabina joins the Nano Letters Early Career Board

The Lab is recruiting new MSc students - come and chat to us!

Hande's paper on graphene/SAWs is published in ACS Nano, congrats!

Group outing with new members Aparna and Rui, welcome!

Secret Sinterklaas with the Lab! Great times with even greater people!

Congrats to Ze Yu who won the Prize for best postdoc paper at the Health Tech Open Day!

We attend S3IC in Paris to present nanophotonics, DNA origami and 2D materials research!

Excited that the lab received a VIDI grant from NWO for our project DNActuate!

Another great edition of Dutch Biophysics where Daria and Ze Yu presented their work!

Congrats to Xiliang who won the best poster award at Pro2Tech!

The EVOLF consortium officially kicks off! Check the project vacancies here.

Nice spotlight on Tetsuo's hBN QE research in TU Delft Student Stories!

Ze Yu's DNA origami MechanoPore paper is out now in Advanced Materials - Congrats!

Yabin and Ze Yu's paper on hBN QEs on DNA origami is out now in Nano Letters!

The group is 4 today! Great team and times :)

Master Thesis Market 2024 at our PME department - click here to see what we work on!

Last day of Dong Hoon who will start his own lab at Korea University - Congrats and all the best!

Spotlight on our group's research on DNA origami nanoactuators

Xiliang presents her work at NWO Physics and the group attends the Linz Biophysics Winterschool.

Christmas dinner with the group in Rotterdam!

Another successful MSc defense, congrats Evi!

Congrats to Maurits on his excellent MSc defense!

Secret Santa with the group with hilarious presents and poems!

Our project 'Shape-Shifters' has been awarded an ENW-XS grant from NWO! We're excited to develop novel DNA origami nanoactuators for biomedicine.

Great talk by Ze Yu on our MechanoPores at S3IC Single-molecule conference in Barcelona!

Together with Pouyan Boukany from Chemical Engineering/TNW we have been awarded a Bioengineering grant for our proposal 'Sort and Sense' for molecular diagnostics!

Together with Georgy Filonenko from Materials Science/3mE we have been awarded a Cohesion grant on optical nanoscopy at smart material interfaces!

Sabina gives an invited seminar at CeNS (Center for NanoScience Munich)

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Daria joins us for her PhD. Welcome!

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DMN section outing at the seaside with VR escape room and BBQ! Thanks to Xiliang for organizing.

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The lab attends NWO Biophysics 2023. Great posters by Xiliang, Dong Hoon, Ze Yu and Yabin!

Our nanophotonics research line is featured in Optics Netherlands! See full description here.

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Pradnya starts her MSc project with us. Welcome!

Sabina gives an invited keynote talk at INASCON 2023

Congrats to Mireia for her successful MSc defense on hBN strain engineering!

Our paper on building a low-cost acoustofluidic device is online at Hardware-X!

The Lab turns 3 today!

Our invited Viewpoint paper is now out in ACS Accounts of Materials Research! Congrats to Dong Hoon and Xiliang!

Sabina gives an invited talk at the Fundamentals of Onco-Tech symposium (DHI).

Evi joins us for her MSc project on DNA origami nanomechanics. Welcome!

Lab Christmas dinner 2022!

Hande joins us for her PhD. Welcome!

Great DMN distinguished lecture on ''The versatility of DNA origami: from nanoagents to biomimetic materials'' by Amelie Heuer-Jungemann (MPI) who visits us at TU Delft today.

Sabina gives an invited talk at STS 2022 in the ''Future of DNA and RNA based technologies'' session in Kyoto, Japan.

Yabin starts his PhD on the Cohesion project with the Smith lab (DCSC/TU Delft). Welcome!

Dong Hoon joins the group as postdoc on the ERC SIMPHONICS project. Welcome!

Mireia, Yue Sun and Maurits start their masters projects in our group. Welcome!

Sabina and her team's research are featured in Nature!

Ze Yu joins our group as postdoc researcher on DNA origami nanoactuators. Welcome!

The Lab turn 2 today!

Xiliang joins our group for her PhD project on 2D material nanophotonic biosensors. Welcome!

Together with Carlas Smith (DCSC/TU Delft) we have been awarded a Cohesion grant!

We will have one PhD position on optical nanoscopy

Wonderful news! We received an ERC Starting Grant from the EU for our project SIMPHONICS (Single-Molecule Acousto-Photonic Nanofluidics).

Our work is among the '35 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2021'!

Read the opinion piece in Matter here.

Congrats to Dr Alessio Fragasso for defending his PhD cum laude!

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Congrats to Dr Martin Lee for the great PhD defense!

We welcome Mareen, Cedric and Arland who started their BSc project on acoustofluidics!

Our NWO-XS proposal 'MechanoPore' is funded! We will develop compliant mechanisms made out of DNA origami. A postdoc position will be available soon.

Trey, Amber, Demetris and Shawn join the group for their MSc projects. Welcome!

Inge successfully defends her master thesis!

Our group is one year old today!

Cynrik joins the group for his Bachelor End Project. Welcome!

Great PhD defense on Nanopores and Nanoslits by Wayne Yang! Happy to have taken part in the defense committee alongside the other 2D materials and nanopore experts.

Sabina gives an invited talk in the Special Session 'Exploring the foundations of biology and microfluidics using microchip technologies' at Physics@Veldhoven

We are organizing the '2D Materials' Symposium at EUROMAT 2021.

Abstract submission is now open! For more details see https://www.euromat2021.org/

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Pim joins the group for his Bachelor End project. Welcome!

Sabina is awarded a Delft Technology Fellowship to start her research group at TU Delft!

Our latest research is published in Nano Letters! Read more about 'A Mechanically Tunable Quantum Dot in a Graphene Break Junction' here.

Inge joins as the very first MSc student in the group. Welcome!

First day of the Caneva Lab!