Last week, the European Rail Research Advisory Council announced that Dr Chen Shen won the award for Best PhD Thesis in the field of railway research in Europe. The prize is awarded to encourage research on advancing railways in Europe. Dr Chen Shen completed his PhD in 2023 at the Railway Engineering section of the
For the first time, a fully autonomous drone has defeated human competitors in an official drone race. A team of students and researchers from TU Delft claimed victory at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi last weekend, outpacing not only 13 other AI teams but also professional human pilots. The Delft drone flew using
Academics who are the first in their families to go to university, do not always feel at home at universities. In a report, the Young Academy says that making the unwritten rules more explicit would help. Drawing on interviews with 12 academics, the First but not least report shows that first-generation university students sometimes have
Datasets disappearing, funding cuts, American colleagues too afraid to answer the phone – many stories are circulating about the consequences of the new US science policies. How are researchers in the Netherlands experiencing the impact of the Trump administration? Investigative journalists from different Dutch media outlets are working together to uncover the concrete effects of
Of the 43 Vici grants awarded Friday by NWO, four were for TU Delft scientists. Of the 369 applications, 12 percent were honored, slightly more than last year. Utrecht University won the most grants, six. Two of the Delft grants go to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. Jan van Gemert is
When distributing research funding, reviewers and collaborators should not use AI programmes such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. This is stated in a new guideline from research financer NWO. Last year, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) already drew a line in the sand: juries, referees and committee members were not allowed to use generative
A team of students from the interdisciplinary Building Serious Games master course has won the Best Student Game Award at the 13th Game and Learning Alliance (GALA) Conference in Berlin. Their game, Pizzicato, was developed by TU Delft students Martin Starkov, Scott Jochems, Luca Stoffels, Ravi Snellenberg, and Joris Rijsdijk. They collaborated with neuropsychological researcher
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. Koen Langendoen (promotor), Fernando Kuipers (section leader), Suray Narayana (with prize) and promotor
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
