Latest news Open menu 04 May 2023 Dingena Schott appointed professor of Machine Cargo Interaction Engineering Dingena Schott has been appointed professor of Machine Cargo Interaction Engineering in the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology (M&TT) starting 26 April 2023. Schott’s research focuses on improving and developing tools for transporting and processing granular materials. Read more 28 April 2023 Jilt Sietsma, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering made Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion Read more 13 April 2023 Othon Moultos has been awarded an NWO OTP grant of 1 million euros for water treatment research The board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences awards funding to seven research projects through the Open Technology Programme, a programme that gives companies and other organisations a way to join scientific research that should lead to applicable knowledge. One of the seven proposals has been awarded to Othon Moultos. Read more 13 April 2023 KIC grant awarded to sustainable surgery robot for minimally invasive surgery NWO has awarded six research projects in the KIC call ‘Key enabling technologies for minimally invasive interventions in healthcare’, including the research of Tim Horeman, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Surgery & Translational Technology at the Department of Biomechanical Engineering. Read more 04 April 2023 Girls’ Day 2023: inspired by science and technology at a young age The annual Girls’ Day took place again on 30 March. It’s a day that gives girls the opportunity to experience how valuable and fun a technical education can be. Fifty pre-university students aged between 13 and 16 from Schiedam visited TU Delft’s 3mE faculty to learn more about mechanical engineering and – new this year – marine technology. Read more 22 March 2023 New microchip links two Nobel Prize-winning techniques Physicists at Delft University of Technology have built a new technology on a microchip by combining two Nobel Prize-winning techniques for the first time. This microchip could measure distances in materials at high precision, for example underwater or for medical imaging. The instrument could lead to new techniques to monitor the Earth’s climate and human health. The work is now published in Nature Communications. Read more 08 March 2023 Aimée Sakes joins board NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences The board of the NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) appoints dr. ir. Aimée Sakes as new board member. She will join the board as of 1 April 2023. Read more 07 March 2023 Rudy Negenborn’s vision on autonomous ships in Nature Nature published an article ‘Autonomous ships are on the horizon: here’s what we need to know’ about autonomous ships that highlights research gaps in six key areas. Rudy Negenborn and his co-authors touch upon critical challenges in the development and deployment of autonomous ships in practice, that are not receiving sufficient attention in research and innovation. Read more 03 March 2023 New tool for organ repair: curvature of the environment Read more 28 February 2023 Sergio Grammatico has been awarded an NWO ENW-M1 grant Sergio Grammatico, Associate Professor at the Delft Centre for Systems and Control (DCSC) has been awarded an individual NWO ENW-M1 grant of € 365.000 for his research project on wind farm control and optimization. NWO ENW-M grants are intended for curiosity-driven scientific research. Read more Search the archive Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page