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Information regarding the coronavirus

PostNL and TU Delft launch Innovation stamps

The 10 stamps artistically show that innovations from Delft can be found in a wide range of fields.

TU Delft Stories

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From the plane into the train

Few travellers combine plane and train: too much uncertainty, too much hassle. What needs to be done to get passengers on the train for a transfer before or after a long flight? Delft Design master's student Rosa Hendrikx researched how passenger service can be improved, designed a service to combine international train journeys and flights, and graduated cum laude

reading time: 12 min

Consulting room of 2030: To achieve big goals, start small

TU Delft alumnus Jan van der Tempel is nominated for the European Patent Office Inventor Award. Delta sailed with him and saw the first electrical footbridge.

reading time: 5 min

Sand on the horizon

It’s a decade since the creation of the Sand Motor, an artificial sand bank off the North Sea coast. What happens to a natural system following human intervention on such a large scale.

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A giant pink rabbit on Grote Markt

A 7 metre tall pink origami rabbit has hopped its way over to the Grote Markt, making Delft’s living room its temporary hutch from May 30. The animal was designed with the Delft Fringe Festival in mind by two TU Delft computer science students. ‘We were positively shocked when we heard that we, two computer science students, had come up with the winner,’ Bartek Kotlicki from Poland and Irishman Ben Provan-Bessell said.

reading time: 5 min

Safety in numbers in times of Corona? There can be.

When did we last dance at a pop festival, cheer on our favourite football team or get together with friends for a meal at a restaurant? It all seems an eternity ago. Dorine Duives misses the crowds as well, and not just for the atmosphere. As a TU Delft researcher Duives studies pedestrian crowd behaviour and the arrival of coronavirus and the 1.5 metre society has made her expertise more relevant than ever. As the crisis developed, the focus of her research became firmly centred on safe ways of opening up society again.

reading time: 4 min

Dutch lessons in the Chinese Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta in the province of Guangdong in southern China is one of the most rapidly urbanising deltas in the world. More than sixty million people now live in an area approximately half the size of the Netherlands. The pace of developments, combined with the consequences of climate change, are creating a complex set of issues. How can a small country like the Netherlands help out?

Reading time: 3 min

Resilient water management in India

Over the last decade, uncontrolled growth has transformed rural villages around major cities in India into peri-urban areas. The original water infrastructure in these agriculture-dependent villages is ill equipped to cope and this is creating tensions. Together with local stakeholders, researchers Leon Hermans and Sharlene Gomes are taking stock of vulnerabilities and opportunities for adaptive water management for sustainable development of the areas.

reading time: 5 min

Purifying water with diamonds

Diamonds have always captured our imagination as a material for jewellery. Fewer of us are aware that engineers also consider diamonds to be an absolutely prime material with many, surprising applications. Researcher Ivan Buijnsters at TU Delft, for example, focuses on purifying water with diamonds.

reading time: 6 min

Using mathematics to explain why the River Ems is silting up

Why are the River Ems and the Dollard inlet so turbid that they barely harbour any life? Mathematician Henk Schuttelaars (TU Delft) is working on new models to improve our understanding of this puzzling river and find solutions to the problems involved.

reading time: 4 min

The creepy crawlies that can save lives

reading time: 5 min

Value from wastewater

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TU Delft opens Climate Action Hub on Campus The Hague

On Friday 24 September TU Delft will open its Climate Action Hub in the Wijnhaven building on the Campus The Hague. The Climate Action Hub is a physical meeting place where administrators and policy makers, knowledge institutions, citizens and businesses can work together on concrete solutions to climate challenges. The Climate Action Hub is part of the TU Delft Climate Action Programme that started in April 2021. With this programme, TU Delft wants to take the lead in tackling climate change. To this end, the university is investing more in climate research and education, and stepping up its cooperation with societal partners. “We need to tackle the consequences of climate change jointly as a society,” says Professor Herman Russchenberg, chairman/scientific director of the Climate Action programme and TU Delft Pro Vice Rector Climate Action. “Within the Hub we can share knowledge widely and develop initiatives for and with administrators, policy makers, businesses and the general public.” One such initiative will be a postgraduate education programme on climate action. Campus The Hague The Hague, city of peace, justice and security as well as political capital, was deliberately chosen as a location for the Climate Action Hub. “We want to bring scientists, government and the public closer together, and The Hague is the right place to achieve this,” says Professor Behnam Taebi, Professor of Ethics of Energy and Climate Change. “We aim for better cooperation on climate issues with national and international policy makers, and with civil society, political organisations and the business community.” Although people do not yet associate The Hague with TU Delft, the university has been present at the Campus The Hague since 2015. It is where the Master's programme in Engineering and Policy Analysis is based, along with research groups that work at the intersection of ethics, social sciences, computer science and engineering on the major societal challenges of our time, including climate change. Opening programme The opening of the Climate Action Hub will be celebrated with a hybrid programme, which can be attended both on location and via an interactive, online session. Rector Magnificus Tim van der Hagen will perform the official opening. Then, panel members will debate thought-provoking propositions on climate policy, including 'technology is going to save the world' and ' tackling climate change is too important to leave to politicians’. Sandor Gaastra, Director-General of Climate and Energy, will attend on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, and Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, will attend on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Vice President Europe of the World Resources Institute Janneke de Vries will also be on the panel, as will Maarten van Aalst, professor at UT and director of the Red Cross Climate Centre and Marja Spierenburg, professor at Leiden University. Among the speakers from TU Delft are Professors Herman Russchenberg and Behnam Taebi. Herman Russchenberg H.W.J.Russchenberg@tudelft.nl Scientific director of the Climate Action programme and TU Delft Pro Vice Rector Climate Action Behnam Taebi B.Taebi@tudelft.nl Lead Professor Inge Snijder +31 (0)6 14759517 I.Snijder@tudelft.nl Press officer TU Delft More information View the Climate Action program and activities at Climate action Stories of Science View all climate stories on the TU Delft stories platform Stories Join the event online Friday, September 24 from 15.00 - 17.00: https://streams.nfgd.nl/tu-delft-climate-launch Highlighted stories: A golden age for earth observation Getting it straight: bridges are becoming circular Sand on the horizon Breaking habits for a green world

Position paper: AI as an accelerator of the energy transition

Making a significant contribution to creating opportunities for a CO2-free energy system, this is what 150 representatives from the business community, knowledge institutions and government are working on within the Dutch AI Coalition. The Energy and Sustainability working group collaborated on the position paper 'AI as an accelerator of the energy transition', which sets out the opportunities for a CO2-free energy system. Researchers from TU Delft have made an active contribution to this agenda.

Digital water

Delft researchers unmask millions of unsafe face masks

TU Delft, NFI and police develop smart technique for forensic photography

High water in Limburg during the summer 2021 was more drastic than the river floods in 1993 and 1995

The heavy precipitation along with the high water of July 2021 in the Netherlands and surrounding countries was an extreme and exceptional event with major social consequences in Limburg. Commissioned by the Expertise Network for Water Safety (ENW), a broad consortium of knowledge institutions, led by Delft University of Technology and Deltares, has now made an initial analysis of the available information on a range of topics.

Events

September

DUWIND lecture ‘Wind farm control’ by Prof. dr. ir. Jan-Willem van Wingerden (TU Delft)

Thesis defence

Inauguration prof.dr. B.F. van Eekelen (Bk)

October

Inaugural speech Klaske Havik: Poetics of the Possible

e-Refinery Lecture: Direct Air Capture technologies using supported amine sorbents

Urban Energy Lunch Lecture: TU Delft Campus Sustainability Plan

Urban Energy Lecture: ‘Urban transformative innovation capacities and the different governance strategies'

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Thesis defence J. Chang

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TU Delft opens Climate Action Hub on Campus The Hague

16 September 2021

Position paper: AI as an accelerator of the energy transition

16 September 2021

Digital water

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September

Thesis defence

Thesis defence H. Wu

Thesis defence

Thesis defence K.C. Helfer

DUWIND lecture ‘Wind farm control’ by Prof. dr. ir. Jan-Willem van Wingerden (TU Delft)

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TU Delft opens Climate Action Hub on Campus The Hague

Energy Switch getting the Zuid-Holland job market ready for the energy transition

New TU Delft webshop online!

Spinoza Prize for Lieven Vandersypen

Catch me if you can: a revolutionary method to study single proteins

New CRISPR-Cas system cuts virus RNA

Uber both competes with, and complements public transport

Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks

Working from home increases desire for green living

Dutch Universities shine a light on essential Design Engineering Sciences sector

Portraits of Science

Online Q & A Event

News and agenda

Information regarding the coronavirus

PostNL and TU Delft launch Innovation stamps

Highlighted stories

From the plane into the train

Consulting room of 2030: To achieve big goals, start small

Sand on the horizon

A giant pink rabbit on Grote Markt

Safety in numbers in times of Corona? There can be.

Dutch lessons in the Chinese Pearl River Delta

Resilient water management in India

Purifying water with diamonds

Using mathematics to explain why the River Ems is silting up

The creepy crawlies that can save lives

Value from wastewater

> All TU Delft Stories

TU Delft opens Climate Action Hub on Campus The Hague

Position paper: AI as an accelerator of the energy transition

Digital water

Delft researchers unmask millions of unsafe face masks

TU Delft, NFI and police develop smart technique for forensic photography

High water in Limburg during the summer 2021 was more drastic than the river floods in 1993 and 1995

September

DUWIND lecture ‘Wind farm control’ by Prof. dr. ir. Jan-Willem van Wingerden (TU Delft)

Inauguration prof.dr. B.F. van Eekelen (Bk)

October

Inaugural speech Klaske Havik: Poetics of the Possible

e-Refinery Lecture: Direct Air Capture technologies using supported amine sorbents

Urban Energy Lunch Lecture: TU Delft Campus Sustainability Plan

Urban Energy Lecture: ‘Urban transformative innovation capacities and the different governance strategies'

September

Thesis defence H. Wu

Thesis defence K.C. Helfer

Thesis defence R. Mathew

Thesis defence A. Luthfi

Thesis defence M.J.P. van Zuijlen

Thesis defence J. Chang

TU Delft opens Climate Action Hub on Campus The Hague

Position paper: AI as an accelerator of the energy transition

Digital water

September

Thesis defence H. Wu

Thesis defence K.C. Helfer

DUWIND lecture ‘Wind farm control’ by Prof. dr. ir. Jan-Willem van Wingerden (TU Delft)

Alumni

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