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Opening Academic Year

6 September 2021

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News and agenda

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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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.

viewing time: 11 min

How to Print a Dinosaur

How to Print a Dinosaur? Find out how a combination of new and traditional techniques can be used to restore an ancient creature like never before!

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

Reading time: 4 min

Water treatment in India: a matter for the local community

Reading time: 3 min

Water with a barcode

A world without a sewer system is not really something anyone would wish to contemplate. Flooding, smelly streets, not to mention the absence of toilet facilities, would make life intolerable. With approximately 150,000 kilometres of waste pipes the Dutch sewage system is one of the country’s most important pieces of infrastructure. While maintenance is crucial it is also expensive. Assistant professor urban water infrastructure Lisa Scholten, together with Francois Clemens and Juan Pablo Aguilar Lopez are looking at new ways to achieve an efficient inspection and maintenance system. With Leiden University computer scientists Arno Knobbe and Dirk Meijer they have been working on ‘SewerSense’, a project to develop a new inspection method which will also lead to a better understanding of the decision-making processes surrounding sewer maintenance.

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Olympic success for TU Delft students

The performance of no fewer than four students at TU Delft were crowned with a medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Roos de Jong (Rowing) and Annete Duetz (Sailing) both won bronze and Stef Broenink (Rowing) won a silver medal. Dirk Uittenbogaard, a student in the Leiden-Delft Master’s degree programme in Industrial Ecology, won a gold medal for rowing (Men’s Quadruple Sculls).

Uber both competes with, and complements public transport

Tussen een en twee op de vijf Uber-reizen hebben geen haalbaar alternatief in het openbaar vervoer. Het aandeel reizigers dat Uber verkiest boven openbaar vervoer neemt af naarmate de reistijd van het openbaar vervoer concurrerender is. Dat zijn twee bevindingen in een nieuw onderzoeksrapport over ritdiensten, dat gebaseerd is op een vergelijking van gegevens van Uber en het openbaar vervoer uit zes steden in de VS en Europa.

Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks

Vidi grants for two leading TU Delft researchers

Scientific innovations contribute to potential Olympic gold

Working from home increases desire for green living

The coronavirus pandemic is changing people's housing preferences, and therefore also the future housing market. TU Delft student Marjolein Bons’ graduation project demonstrates this.

Events

September

e-Refinery Lecture: Electrolyzer Development and Process Optimization: Paving the Road for Industrial Carbon-dioxide Electroreduction

PowerWeb Lecture: Intelligent multi-energy system for energy-autonomous built environment

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

DUWIND PhD event “The future of wind energy, its challenges and our solutions”

October

e-Refinery Lecture November 2

Urban Energy Lunch Lecture: TU Delft Campus Sustainability Plan

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Thesis defence I. Chatzikonstantinou

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12 August 2021

Olympic success for TU Delft students

06 August 2021

Uber both competes with, and complements public transport

14 July 2021

Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks

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Events

September

Thesis defence

Thesis defence R.Ø. Thorsen

e-Refinery Lecture: Electrolyzer Development and Process Optimization: Paving the Road for Industrial Carbon-dioxide Electroreduction

Thesis defence

Thesis defence O. Ersoy

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Uber both competes with, and complements public transport

Olympic success for TU Delft students

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

Opening Academic Year

News and agenda

Information regarding the coronavirus

PostNL and TU Delft launch Innovation stamps

Highlighted stories

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

Sand on the horizon

A giant pink rabbit on Grote Markt

How to Print a Dinosaur

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

Water treatment in India: a matter for the local community

Water with a barcode

> All TU Delft Stories

Olympic success for TU Delft students

Uber both competes with, and complements public transport

Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks

Vidi grants for two leading TU Delft researchers

Scientific innovations contribute to potential Olympic gold

Working from home increases desire for green living

September

e-Refinery Lecture: Electrolyzer Development and Process Optimization: Paving the Road for Industrial Carbon-dioxide Electroreduction

PowerWeb Lecture: Intelligent multi-energy system for energy-autonomous built environment

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

DUWIND PhD event “The future of wind energy, its challenges and our solutions”

October

e-Refinery Lecture November 2

Urban Energy Lunch Lecture: TU Delft Campus Sustainability Plan

September

Thesis defence R.Ø. Thorsen

Thesis defence O. Ersoy

Thesis defence S.A. Fatemi

Thesis defence M. Khakdaman

Thesis defence H. Xia

Thesis defence I. Chatzikonstantinou

Olympic success for TU Delft students

Uber both competes with, and complements public transport

Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks

September

Thesis defence R.Ø. Thorsen

e-Refinery Lecture: Electrolyzer Development and Process Optimization: Paving the Road for Industrial Carbon-dioxide Electroreduction

Thesis defence O. Ersoy

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