September 2025: Jonas and Wenfeng both receive the “Cum Laude” distinction for their PhD thesis.
July 2025: Wenfeng receives a NWO Rubicon grant to carry a postdoc at Harvard University.
January 2025: We receive a Proof-of-Concept Grant from the ERC (150k) to perform research on metamaterials for battery housing of EVs.
December 2024: Xiaofei wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis award 2024 from the Dutch Research Council.
December 2024: We receive a Consolidator Grant from the ERC (3M) to perform research on active metamaterials.
July 2024: Ryan receives a NWO Rubicon grant to carry out a postdoc at ESPCI Paris-Tech.
May 2024: Xiaofei receives the “Cum Laude” distinction for her PhD thesis.
January 2024: We receive a NWO TTW grant (650k) to steer fracture with metamaterials.
October 2023: Corentin wins the 2024 APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter.
July 2023: Lucie obtains a “Charge de Recherche CNRS” permanent position to work at IUSTI in Marseille.
July 2023: We receive a Proof-of-Concept Grant from the ERC (150k) to perform research on metamaterials for vibration damping.
March 2023: Jack Bynish receives the Marie-Curie grant to join our lab.
July 2022: We receive the VIDI grant (800k) from NWO to perform research on odd matter.
April 2022: Our work on chocolate metamaterials receives more than 25M viewers in media outreach.
July 2020: Martin obtains a “Charge de Recherche CNRS” permanent position to work at IRPHE in Marseille.
December 2019: We obtain a NWO TTW (850k) grant to develop dissipative metamaterials.
September 2019: We obtain a Starting Grant from the ERC (1,5M) to understand the extreme mechanics of metamaterials.
July 2015: Corentin obtains a VENI grant (250k) from NWO to develop aperiodic metamaterials.
Corentin Coulais 