Archive
01 February 2024
New network to build the first realistic thermomagnetic generator for waste heat recovery
TU Delft leads HEAT4ENERGY, a European consortium, dedicated to develop thermomagnetic devices and novel materials to harvest heat from data centres, food, pulp and paper industries and convert this waste heat to electricity. This project ticks all the boxes: energy transition, decarbonising, low and high power devices for conversion of waste heat to electricity, energy storage, finding alternatives for critical raw materials, developing new materials and most important of all: training of a next generation of European experts.
26 January 2024
TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering takes measure for 30% female intake in bachelor's programme
The percentage of female students starting in the Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft has not been increasing for several years. The percentage is currently around 20%. "That is not enough as far as we are concerned. That’s why we want to increase the proportion to 30% at once with the intake of the coming academic year," says Director of Education Joris Melkert.
25 January 2024
Fujitsu en Technische Universiteit Delft richten quantumlab op
Industry-academia collaboration hub Fujitsu Advanced Computing Lab Delft at Delft University of Technology to drive development of advanced quantum computing technologies
25 January 2024
Social living room Exhale officially opened
On Friday 19 January 2024, Exhale, a social living room powered by X, hosted a party to celebrate its official opening. Hundreds of students from TU Delft visited Exhale to get to know the space for the first time, get together and enjoy food and good music.
23 January 2024
New website helps make eHealth tools usable for all
eHealth tools can offer a solution to the glaring shortage of healthcare personnel. But not everyone has the technical skills to get started with these tools. That is why PhD candidates Jasper Faber and Isra Al-Dhahir have developed a website for eHealth tool developers to get practical information on building such a tool, with the aim of closing the growing health gap. "Think practical tips, do's and don'ts."
23 January 2024
Interview with Judith Rietjens: "We need to cherish the conversation again”
Judith Rietjens is a Professor of Design for Public Health at the TU Delft | Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering and Erasmus MC’s department of Public Health. On 26 January, she will give her inaugural lecture at the TU Delft Aula. What was it that sparked her line of research? Why did she join the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE)? How does she see the evolution of the healthcare system? Find out in this interview.
16 January 2024
Interview with Dr. Jalal Kazempour: insights on priorities for the energy transition, barriers, and modelling
16 January 2024
TU Delft celebrated 182nd Dies Natalis and Delta week
15 January 2024
New TU Delft Dream Team Emergence combines art and technology
Emergence Delft is een gloednieuw TU Delft studententeam dat met interactieve kunstinstallaties meer duiding en uitleg wil geven over de impact van nieuwe, moderne, opkomende technologie
09 January 2024
Old times revived for climate adaptation
Extreme rainfall events are becoming more extreme and periods of drought are becoming more frequent. To keep the Dutch delta liveable, adaptations will be needed, such as extra water buffers. The Netherlands has a long history of struggle against water, but also makes eager use of it. What can we learn from our heritage? Erik Mostert, lecturer and researcher Water Management at TU Delft, developed several strategies for the province of South Holland to be more resilient to climate change. Inspiration for this came from Dutch heritage: tow barge canals.
09 January 2024
Student 'Quick Reaction' Team erected for field measurements in extreme weather events
08 January 2024
Unique permanent coastal observation detects minimal changes
A team of researchers from TU Delft has succeeded in long-term mapping of beach topography to within a few centimetres. The unique dataset provides insights into coastal changes for every hour, for three years. This data is important for dune maintenance and to keep the hinterland well protected. The methodology is also being used to monitor other coastlines and even glaciers. The data are open source and published in Nature, and the new methodology was also recently published.
08 January 2024
New year, new name: 3mE is now called Mechanical Engineering
The Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Science (3mE) is starting the new year with a new name: Mechanical Engineering (ME). The name change took effect from 1 January.
22 December 2023
December edition Delft Matters published
20 December 2023
Echo education building wins World Prix Versailles 2023
TU Delft is very proud to announce that the World Judges Panel for the Prix Versailles 2023 decided to award the World Prix Versailles 2023 (Campuses category) to our Echo education building.
20 December 2023
Ensuring that humans don’t become a machine's moral crumple zone
How do we design AI systems so that humans retain enough control? Years of work by Delft researchers and international colleagues have resulted in the first handbook on 'meaningful human control' for systems with autonomous properties. David Abbink, professor of haptic human-robot interaction and scientific director of TU Delft's interdisciplinary research institute AiTech, and Geert-Jan Houben, pro-vice rector of AI, Data and Digitalisation and leader of the TU Delft AI Initiative, talk about how Delft’s research into 'meaningful human control' should lead to more responsible development and implementation of systems with autonomous properties, and how Delft has taken a leading role in this worldwide.
19 December 2023
Six 20k grants for cross-campus bioengineering research projects
19 December 2023
Best Bioengineering MSc Graduate of the Year: Thomas Michalica!
14 December 2023
Stefan Aarninkhof appointed as dean of CEG
TU Delft’s Executive Board has appointed Professor Stefan Aarninkhof to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG) with effect from 1 January 2024.
13 December 2023
NWO grant for developing multi-purpose flat optical components
More and better optics with less. That is the ambition of the AWAVE consortium, led by TU Delft. The researchers will develop a flat optical component that might replace all curved optical components, such as lenses, in the future. This flat component should also be easy to recycle and contain fewer harmful substances.
12 December 2023
New research into the dynamics of the deep subsurface under the influence of human interventions
12 December 2023
Optimisation of hard-soft material interfaces: A 3D printed imitation of bone-tendon connections
11 December 2023
TU Delft ranked 14th worldwide on Sustainability
On Tuesday 5 December, QS World University Ranking ranked TU Delft in place 14 for the theme Sustainability worldwide. Last year, the university ranked 23 for this theme. The rise shows the university's sustainability ambition.
08 December 2023
Master student Ahmed Emin Batman ECHO Award winner
On Thursday 7 December, the winners of the ECHO Award 2023 were announced. BK Master student Ahmed Emin Batman is the winner of the Bèta Techniek Award. Emin is now a 'well-known' face from his many times viewed TikTok video, with his Turkish parents during his BSc graduation ceremony, with now almost 600,000 views.
08 December 2023
New 3D co-culture model to study the effect of proton therapy on aggressive brain cancer
Researchers at TU Delft designed novel 3D-engineered scaffolds inspired by the geometry of the brain microvasculature. The micro-structures were co-cultured with both glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, and endothelial cells, the building blocks of blood vessels. This model enabled researchers to study the effect of proton therapy on glioblastoma and uncovered a possible protective role of endothelial cells on cancer cells.
06 December 2023
TU Delft Dream Team Epoch, winnaar van de Computable Award in Sustainable Tech
Team Epoch, een studenten Dream Team van de TU Delft, de trotse winnaar van de Computable Award 2023 voor Sustainable Tech. Team Epoch ontving de award naar aanleiding van hun prestatie in de Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bio-massters-competitie, waarin het team een AI-model ontwikkelde dat de hoeveelheid biomassa in een bosgebied in Finland kan voorspellen.
28 November 2023
Leo Kouwenhoven University Professor at TU Delft QuTech
28 November 2023
Prof. Theophilus Benson (Carnegie Mellon University) gives a CS Distinguished talk
24 November 2023
Auditorium will be lit up in orange on 24 November
On 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the UN Orange the World campaign starts and ends on 10 December, the International Human Rights Day. Ahead of this campaign, on Friday 24 November, the Aula will be lit up in orange, the colour that symbolises a bright future, free from violence against women and girls. This will happen simultaneously with Delft's City Hall and the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. This year's theme is "Safe, Everywhere and Always". With this TU Delft says NO to violence against women.
23 November 2023
TU Delft unveils earthquake-resistant house
Op donderdag 23 november presenteert het Architectural Recovery Team, ontstaan vanuit de TU Delft , het ontwerp voor een betaalbaar en aardbevingsbestendig huis voor de getroffenen van de aardbevingen in Turkije. Op basis van dit ontwerp zal in het voorjaar van 2024 een prototype worden gebouwd in een dorp in Turkije. Daarna zal het ontwerp in productie worden genomen, om Turkse inwoners die tot op heden nog geen goede woning hebben gevonden, aan een veilige en betaalbare woning van hoogwaardige kwaliteit te helpen.
23 November 2023
ERC Consolidator Grant for ultra-sensitive 2D material membranes in frequency-based metrology and bacteria sensing
Last year, scientists at TU Delft achieved a remarkable feat by using graphene to capture the sound of an individual bacterium. In order to improve these kind of 2D ultra-sensitive sensors, the nanomechanics of this material have to be studied in more detail. Farbod Alijani, associate professor at the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Material Engineering, received an ERC Consolidator Grant for this project.
15 November 2023
More efficient electrodes for CO2 recycling
CO2 electrolysis is a promising way to store energy whilst recycling carbon dioxide. By applying electricity, CO2 and water react and produce more complex molecules. A study published in Nature Communications lead by Hugo van Montfort at TU Delft has presented a new design of electrodes that improves the efficiency of CO2 electrolysis.
14 November 2023
The Delft Satellite Delfi-C3 Has Come to Its End
Last night, probably between 21:00 and 22:00 CET, the nanosatellite Delfi-C3 reached the end of its life at the age of 15. The Delfi-C3, the first satellite built by students, burned up in the atmosphere. In 2006, the small satellite was built by scientists from TU Delft, along with a group of about 60 students. It was launched from India in 2008. Since then, it has orbited the Earth more than 85,000 times, traveling approximately 3.7 billion kilometers.
10 November 2023
Talieh Ghiasi wins Minerva Prize 2023
09 November 2023
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and KLM join forces with Delft University of Technology for the future of work in baggage handling halls
Wetenschappers van de TU Delft starten een onderzoek naar een nieuwe manier van werken in de bagagehallen van Schiphol.
07 November 2023
Safe and affordable red blood cells without donors
The production of cultured red blood cells (cRBCs) holds the promise of being a potentially unlimited source of cells that could meet the increasing demand for red blood cell transfusions.
06 November 2023
TU Delft claims 16th place in THE Engineering & Technology rankings
De TU Delft stijgt wereldwijd naar de 16e plaats in de Engineering & Technology ranglijst van de Times Higher Education Subject Rankings 2024 die 26 oktober is gepubliceerd. Dit is voor een technische universiteit als de TU Delft de meest relevante categorie.
06 November 2023
New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa
Five Dutch universities – led by TU Delft – will appoint fifty-one PhD students to carry out solution-oriented research for and with the African continent. They will focus on urgent challenges such as climate change, the energy transition, affordable global healthcare, access to clean water and sustainable urban development.
02 November 2023
TU Delft researchers discover new ultra strong material for microchip sensors
A material that doesn't just rival the strength of diamonds and graphene, but boasts a yield strength 10 times greater than Kevlar, renowned for its use in bulletproof vests.
31 October 2023
Sustainable shipping: are auxiliary sails a solution?
TU Delft is launching a new research programme on 31 October to explore the possibilities of wind-assisted propulsion for cargo vessels. The aim is to reduce fuel consumption by 30%.