The TU Delft Integrity Board released recommendations and an action plan in September. These aim to make scientific integrity more concrete and help avoid mishaps like the Majorana case. But how?

Researchers at QuTech established a connection between two quantum processors ten kilometers apart using standard fiber optic cable. They see this as an important step toward a quantum internet.

To offset some of the major budget cuts they face, higher education institutions should focus more on defence research. This is according to Jos Benschop, of the AWTI advisory council.

Halfway along the Afsluitdijk stands the pilot factory of SeaO2, a start-up originating at TU Delft that extracts CO₂ from seawater to slow down climate change. A task as essential as it is challenging.

Fifteen seconds of walking on a treadmill surrounded by video cameras and an X-ray camera can reveal the type of osteoarthritis that someone has and the best treatment for it. The Mobi Lab was opened on 17 October by Deans Fred van Keulen (TU Delft) and Stefan Sleijfer (Erasmus MC).

On 17 October, the Reactor Institute Delft will celebrate the conclusion of a 10 year, EUR 130 million renovation. Delta went along to take a look. “It is a thorough modernisation for research,” said RID Director Wim Koppers.

Natalia Vtyurina has won the Marina van Dammebeurs 2024, a grant that is awarded every year to a female TU Delft alumnus. Vtyurina received the grant on Thursday during a celebratory gathering organised by the Delft University Fund.

While TU Delft drops eight places to number 56, it is again the highest ranking university in the Netherlands on the Times Higher Education Ranking. Just as last year, Utrecht University did not give any information.

“The answers are probably mostly both,” warns Ibo van de Poel before Delta presents him with ten dilemma’s. Read and judge for yourself: what makes the winner of the Professor of Excellence Award 2024 a real Professor of Excellence?

As of this academic year, all Doctoral Committee members will have to wear a gown during the doctoral ceremony in which a doctoral candidate defends their dissertation. Before this, only professors could do so. TU Delft is the only university in the Netherlands to make this ceremonial dress mandatory.