Research on touch wins Klokhuis Science Award

March 9, 2026 - This year’s Klokhuis Science Award has been awarded to Dutch Touch Society, a group of researchers studying the effects of touch. One of them is TU/e researcher Antal Haans. Klokhuis presenter Tirsa With handed out the prize last weekend during the InScience film festival in Nijmegen.

Two other TU/e research projects were also nominated for the science award, which is named after a long-running educational children’s TV program. Student Juliëtte Klink made cardboard dance, and researchers Myrthe van der Ven and Juliette van Haren developed an incubator for extremely premature babies. A total of 8,500 children cast their votes for one of the nominated research projects. / LvA

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