Universities do not really know what their patents are worth, a Groningen emeritus argued in the FD. TU Delft is a leader in patents, but what is the value?
He is probably the oldest PhD student at TU Delft ever. Hans van Duivendijk was 89 when he defended his PhD thesis on the ongoing battle against water on 17 June. As an engineer, he was able to use simple means to build complex water management systems in countries such as Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria.
The supreme court’s judgement last week that the subsidy that TU Delft received in 2017 for geothermal research was rightly reclaimed. The subsidy amounts to hundreds of thousands of euros.
The brand new Space Oasis student team has worked on a self-sufficient colony on the moon over the last year. The team members presented their first design last Friday.
In een few weeks, Annelous Lammerts will compete in the first Olympic kitesurf competition ever. TU Delft designed an aerodynamic and tear-proof suit specially for her.
Four years after his appointment as Policy Advisor on China at TU Delft, Peter Gill’s work has been included in the UNL guidelines for international cooperation. “Whether you like it or not, you cannot avoid China.”
Last year, security measures were taken for 59 scientists because of the hate and threats they receive. Whether this number includes TU employees is unknown.
Members of the scientific community are calling on the new government not to cut research funding. PhD students and postdocs urge prospective education minister Eppo Bruins to heed the advice he ‘gave himself’ very recently: invest in knowledge and research.
Prof. Lieven Vandersypen, Quantum Professor and Scientific Director of QuTech, became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) last May and he and his colleagues received EUR 35 million of research funding from NWO. Time for a talk about the limits of our knowledge and the prospects for the quantum computer.
