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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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The creepy crawlies that can save lives

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Value from wastewater

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TU Delft on board the world largest crane vessel for exploring future Offshore Wind Turbines

How do you install a wind turbine far out at sea when high waves and strong winds make its installation virtually impossible? With this question in mind, a team of researchers from TU Delft, in collaboration with Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) and DOT B.V., boarded the world's largest crane vessel this week: Heerema's Sleipnir. As part of a major pioneering project, the FOX project, they are exploring floating wind turbine installation. TU Delft researchers David Fidalgo Domingos, Peter Meijers and Panagiota Atzampou are on board.

TU Delft, Deltares and ProRail to tackle rail subsidence in a structural way

ProRail, TU Delft and Deltares will conduct an investigation over the next five years into the behaviour of trains travelling along our railway embankments. On 4 October 2021, they signed the RESET research programme agreement for this purpose. This research will focus on the consequences of increased and heavier rail traffic along with climate change on our railway embankments and how we can anticipate them. As there is little fundamental systematic knowledge in this field in Europe, this pioneering research may also assist other countries facing similar problems.

New method helps identifying murder suspects more quickly

Diversity & Inclusion Week 4-8 oktober 2021

TU Delft set to future-proof electricity grid

Understanding human-robot interaction critical in design of rehabilitation systems

Robotic body-weight support (BWS) devices can play a key role in helping people with neurological disorders to improve their walking. The team that developed the advanced body-weight support device RYSEN in 2018 has since gained more fundamental insight in BWS but also concludes that improvement in this field is necessary.

Events

October

PowerWeb Lecture: Goran Strbac, Professor Imperial College London

e-Refinery Lecture: Harvesting Renewable Energy for Power-to-X Processes with Plasma Technology

DUWIND lecture by Dr. Antonio Segalini (KTH)(Uppsala University)

November

Urban Energy Lecture: ‘High temperature underground thermal energy storage – how to store heat under our feet?’

Agendas for Society - Aviation - UNICAMP - TU Delft

PowerWeb Lecture: Smart Charging Implementation at Sympower

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Thesis defence R.A. Gorny

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TU Delft on board the world largest crane vessel for exploring future Offshore Wind Turbines

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TU Delft, Deltares and ProRail to tackle rail subsidence in a structural way

07 October 2021

New method helps identifying murder suspects more quickly

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October

Thesis defence

Thesis defence R.P.W.M. Tielen

Thesis defence

Thesis defence K.A. Totlani

PowerWeb Lecture: Goran Strbac, Professor Imperial College London

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As a graduate of TU Delft we hope to keep you involved. Visit the alumni pages for the latest news, alumni events and activities, career support, special alumni discounts and networking and training opportunities.

TU Delft at Dutch Design Week 16-24 October

TU Delft, Deltares and ProRail to tackle rail subsidence in a structural way

TU Delft set to future-proof electricity grid

TU Delft opens Climate Action Hub on Campus The Hague

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

Spinoza Prize for Lieven Vandersypen

Portraits of Science

Online information for parents

News and agenda

Information regarding the coronavirus

TU Delft Campus accelerates innovation

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 on board the world largest crane vessel for exploring future Offshore Wind Turbines

TU Delft, Deltares and ProRail to tackle rail subsidence in a structural way

New method helps identifying murder suspects more quickly

Diversity & Inclusion Week 4-8 oktober 2021

TU Delft set to future-proof electricity grid

Understanding human-robot interaction critical in design of rehabilitation systems

October

PowerWeb Lecture: Goran Strbac, Professor Imperial College London

e-Refinery Lecture: Harvesting Renewable Energy for Power-to-X Processes with Plasma Technology

DUWIND lecture by Dr. Antonio Segalini (KTH)(Uppsala University)

November

Urban Energy Lecture: ‘High temperature underground thermal energy storage – how to store heat under our feet?’

Agendas for Society - Aviation - UNICAMP - TU Delft

PowerWeb Lecture: Smart Charging Implementation at Sympower

October

Thesis defence R.P.W.M. Tielen

Thesis defence K.A. Totlani

Thesis defence F. Mayer

Thesis defence B. Abdikivanani

Thesis defence M. Marchetti

Thesis defence R.A. Gorny

TU Delft on board the world largest crane vessel for exploring future Offshore Wind Turbines

TU Delft, Deltares and ProRail to tackle rail subsidence in a structural way

New method helps identifying murder suspects more quickly

October

Thesis defence R.P.W.M. Tielen

Thesis defence K.A. Totlani

PowerWeb Lecture: Goran Strbac, Professor Imperial College London

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