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On Monday 3 September, Cees Dekker, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (AS) received the Best Professor Award 2018.

On Monday 2 July, Cees Dekker, Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences (AS), was surprised...

Mathematician and Professor of Science communication Ionica Smeets has been named Alumnus of the Year 2018. She was chosen by a jury, consisting of Tim van der Hagen (president of the Executive Board of the TU Delft) and Michael Wisbrun (president of the Delft University Fund), on recommendation of the EEMCS faculty, where Ionica received her degree in Applied Mathematics in 2005.

On Wednesday, May 16, the award ceremony of the Marina van Damme Scholarship 2018 took place. The jury nominated no less than four candidates for the 9.000 euro Scholarship. Martha Deen, alumna faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), is the winner of this prestigious scholarship. With her ambitious plan to map the energy potential of the ocean, she convinced the jury.

Access to safe drinking water is a global challenge, particularly affecting the rural poor in developing countries. This urgent problem requires new, smart solutions for the removal of a wide range of contaminants of global concern, such as arsenic, fluoride, pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes.

Master student Alberto Gancedo from Spain got the opportunity, via Delft University Fund, to start his Master’s programme Microelectronics at TU Delft in September 2017. Besides studying, he is also working on his own project ‘Amplitude-integrated EEG measurement system (aEEG)’. Alberto’s goal: to develop a small, portable and cheap monitoring device to detect babies unusual brain activity directly after birth.

This year's Marina van Damme Scholarship will be awarded on 16 May 2018. Dr. Marina van Damme will again be attending in person to welcome all the nominees. Last year's presentation of the grant, in June 2017, had a highly unexpected result. Because of the exceptionally high level of the nominees, Marina van Damme decided to reward not one but two of them with the full grant of €9,000.

Alumni & Relations Event

Delft University Fund has made €25.000 extra available for TU Delft bachelor students. All bachelor students who plan to do something special or extraordinary but lack the financial means to do so, can now submit an application.

Vinay Balaji is a master student at the EEMCS faculty at TU Delft. Vinay came up with the idea of ‘Virtual Referee’, a technology which helps the referee to accurately and quickly determine whether or not it’s offside or a penalty during a football game.