Make the amount of time used for teaching measurable; monitor PhD candidates better during their doctoral programme; and, reserve enough time for supervision. These are the recommendations of PhD candidates and their representatives in the face of faculties’ austerity plans.
The budget cuts planned by TU Delft will also affect PhD candidates. By 2028, at least 148 PhD positions will be scrapped from the first money stream. In addition, faculties want PhD candidates to teach more and complete their PhDs faster.
While Mechanical Engineering students and workshop employees were busy building a sturdy igloo, roofs elsewhere in the country are collapsing under the weight of heavy snow. How do you build safe, snow-resistant structures?
Most people take a nap now and then; on the train, on the plane, and in the future perhaps even in a self-driving car. Gerbera Vledder (IO) recently obtained her PhD on sleeping while seated. A perfect moment to examine Delft’s lecture hall seats together with this seated-sleep expert.
The number of women professors at TU Delft remains far below the national average and its own target, even though five years ago that target was considered realistic. What went wrong and how can things be improved? Delta discussed this with Vice-Rector Hans Hellendoorn and Acting Chief Diversity Officer Cynthia Liem.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded forty scientists from Dutch research institutions a ‘consolidator grant’ of around €2 million. Five of them are affiliated with TU Delft.
Universities of applied sciences have signed up for cooperation with the armed forces. Universities are still working on an agreement. And TU Delft? It signed a letter of intent with the Ministry of Defense in April.
Three in ten professors at Dutch universities are women, according to newly released figures for 2024. TU Delft remains at the bottom of the list and is the only university to see a decline. This means that the target of 25 percent female professors by 2025 now seems definitively out of reach.
For many people, Venus is nothing more than a bright dot in the sky. But not for geochemist and experimental petrologist Edgar Steenstra. He wants to understand how the channels on Venus that are thousands of kilometers long were formed. And since this month, TU Delft has the equipment needed to investigate this.
