The PhD thesis ‘Space Internet of Things’ (Space-IoT) by Dr Sujay Narayana has attracted much attention since its defence on 1 May 2023. Narayana won the SigMobile Best Doctoral Dissertation Award with it at the global MobiCom 2024 conference in Washington DC. Dr. Sujay Narayana (middle) won the Best PhD thesis Award at the MobiCom
Establishing habitats on the Moon or Mars comes with a unique challenge: shielding inhabitants from harmful radiation. The prevailing solution in space exploration is to build underground. But before constructing living quarters, laboratories, or even vegetable gardens, designers need to map subterranean lava tubes. How to create accurate maps of these irregular and rugged environments?
Last week, at its congress in London, the Society of Chemical Industry appointed Prof. Luuk van der Wielen as its Editor in Chief SCI Sustainability. This puts him in an influential position within the knowledge hub of 900 chemical companies worldwide in partnership with scientific publisher Wiley Publishers. Van der Wielen sought and received permission
Alumni Jeroen Wink and Tobias Knap (Aerospace Engineering) developed the Mk-II Aurora prototype spaceplane through their Dawn Aerospace company. On 12 November, the plane broke the sound barrier over New Zealand. This milestone marks a significant step towards creating a spaceplane that can carry satellites to the edge of space, allowing them to reach their
Microbiologist Elisabeth Bik will receive 200,000 euros in recognition of her fight against scientific misconduct. According to the German Einstein Foundation, her work has helped to raise awareness of research fraud. After completing her PhD in Utrecht, Elisabeth Bik worked at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) for a number of
Research funder NWO has awarded Vidi grants totalling EUR 86.8 million to 102 scientists. Eight of these researchers are affiliated with TU Delft, three of whom are part of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
Dutch researchers have won two Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday night, the annual awards for scientific research that makes you laugh first and think second. Both prizes went to researchers from the University of Amsterdam. For the first prize-winning experiment, scientists tossed a coin 350,757 times: did it turn heads or tails? In almost 51
How can you set up a reliable energy system on the road to 2050 whose sources – solar and wind power – are variable? The answer will probably be a combination of market design, grid arrangements and energy policy. But the question remains how to do this. This is also the subject of the extensive
The Veni grant from research financier NWO is intended for recently graduated researchers. The stipend gives them three years to further develop their research ideas. They receive a grant of up to EUR 320,000 for their work. Last July, NWO announced the results of the 2023 applications. There were 1,308 applications of which 174 were
In a summery metaphor, QuTech presents new research results as jumps from one trampoline to the next. QuTech is TU Delft and TNO's institute for quantum computer development. In reality, the news is not about its athletic staff, but about spins read-more-closed read-more-open that jump from one quantum bit (qubit for short) to another. The
