Om containers vanuit de Rotterdamse haven te exporteren moet een bedrijf gemiddeld dertig formulieren aanleveren. Bij tien miljoen containers per jaar tikt dat flink aan.

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Indian PhD student Deepak Pratap Singh is quickly becoming an expert on battery technology, arguably one of the world’s most important technologies, given our total reliance on mobile electronic devices and our urgent need to replace fossil fuel burning cars with cleaner electric
vehicles.

Name: Diego Quintero Pulido (MSc Sustainable Energy Technology)
Brand: Batavus
Price: 140 euros
Striking feature: Pretty fast   

“As soon as arrived in the Netherlands, I bought a bike from the shop in front of TU Delft’s Sport Center.

Name: Matthijs Pronk (26)
Nationality: Dutch
Supervisor: Professor Jan van Neerven; co-supervisor: Dr Mark Veraar (both of the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty)
Subject: Malliavin calculus in UMD Banach Spaces
Thesis defense: In two years

“My research is about stochastic analysis.

He took the photo himself, Dr Jason Pierson notes, after his appeal to Old Amsterdam for high-res pictures was rebuffed. It seemed entirely fitting to use Old Amsterdam cheese on the cover, since much of Pierson’s PhD research had been conducted at the NKI (Netherlands Cancer Institute) in the Dutch capital.

Students designing a floating, energy-producing home for the Solar Decathlon competition have opened their design studio in the Science Centre’s bare basement.