Dutch universities are doing a little less well in the annual rankings of the British research agency QS. TU Delft has dropped four places compared to last year.
Universities need to “clean up their act” when it comes to partnerships with autocratic countries, and will be subjected to an external review, Minister Dijkgraaf announced.
Four TU Delft professors explain why they signed an open letter in which academics assert that Members of Parliament abuse their position to give researchers a bad name.
“Diversity may have become mainstream, but people still don’t look around enough”, says outgoing president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Ineke Sluiter.
In a high-profile Nature article, QuTech PhD alumni Hermans and Pompili show how they transfer quantum information in a network based on entanglement in the Ronald Hanson Lab.
Algorithms make aircraft maintenance more efficient. This became apparent after six months of testing at KLM, which completed the ReMAP research project, led by TU Delft.
Cleaner boating really is possible. This year, the TU Delft Hydromotion team designed and built a hydrogen-powered foiling boat whose only exhaust emission is water.
TU Delft researchers expect there to be a shortage of magnets within 10 years. That will hamper the energy transition. The EU Valomag recycling programme may offer a way out.
They have odd electromagnetic properties, or can be ultra-light and strong. Metamaterials are the crème de la crème for material experts, and perhaps for chocolatiers too.
