Now that negotiations for a new Dutch cabinet are underway, interest groups are bombarding informateur read-more-closed read-more-open Sybrand Buma with their wish lists. The National Student Union (LSVb), university association UNL and the Social and Economic Council (SER) have done the same. What are their wishes for higher education and research? The LSVb keeps it
Men are more likely to receive a PhD “with honours” than women, even when there is no scientific reason for this. That is why the University of Twente decided on Wednesday to discontinue this designation. This makes it the first Dutch university to scrap cum laude for PhD candidates. The new rule will take effect
TU scientists Cees Dekker, Pier Siebesma and Leo de Vreede have been awarded synergy grants for the research projects they are leading. The grants are worth up to €10 million and will run for six years. In total, the European Research Council (ERC) is making €684 million available to 66 international teams. The grants are
Science funding body NWO is awarding 149 Vidi grants this year to talented researchers. Sixteen of these grants have been awarded to scientists from TU Delft. Each recipient will receive up to €850,000. In total, NWO is awarding nearly fifty more grants than last year. Of the 778 proposals submitted, 19 percent were successful. Women
More than 160 concerned scientists are urging political party leaders to place the fight against the global climate crisis at the heart of their election campaigns. Among them are eighteen researchers from Delft. They are calling for an end to new gas drilling and fossil fuel subsidies. So far, the ecological crisis has played a
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the inventors of a type of sponge for molecules. With their metal-organic materials, you can even extract water from the desert air. Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi were the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks with cavities in which you can capture exactly one molecule. Spheres with holes
Three physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that the remarkable world of quantum mechanics does not only play a role at the level of the smallest particles. It can also be used to create computer chips. In quantum mechanics, you can demonstrate many phenomena, but you cannot explain them using classical
Have you ever wanted to programme your own robot? See drones moving in perfect synchronisation? Or attend a lecture in the historic Architecture building? You can do all this on TU Delft Science Day on Sunday 26 October. This year, the Faculty of Architecture has been added as a new location. TU Delft has been
The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after researcher-lecturer in archaeological materials Geeske Langejans (Faculty of ME). It is a rocky mini-planet measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter. Langejans reacted with surprise: “I received a cryptic message in the evening saying that there was something nice in my email. I didn't open the email
Young researchers from Dutch research institutions have secured 44 European starting grants worth an average of €1.5 million. Five of these researchers work at TU Delft. The five ERC Starting Grant winners from TU Delft are Kristin Kirchner (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, EEMCS), Nadia Haider and Carlos Errando Herranz, (both work
