Dr Jack Pronk, Professor of Industrial Biotechnology (Faculty of Applied Sciences), will receive this year’s Novozymes Prize from the Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation, worth DKK 5,000,000 (EUR 627,000). Pronk is being awarded the Prize for his fundamental scientific work with yeast cells and their use in the industrial production of biofuels from waste streams. Pronk's
Last academic year, more women than men were awarded a PhD. The difference was bigger than ever: 182 PhDs. This is mainly thanks to the medical sciences. How about at TU Delft? It happened once before that more women than men completed their PhDs at the Dutch universities. This was in 2020/2021 and the difference
In terms of scientific impact, the Netherlands leads the world together with Switzerland, reports publisher Elsevier. This is mainly due to its many publications together with foreign researchers. According to Elsevier, the Netherlands scores 72 percent above world average in terms of scientific citations. The number of publications is also relatively high. Collaboration Especially publications
This Sunday 17 March, the informative youth programme Het Klokhuis will award the Klokhuis Science Prize for the eighth time. There are two nominated research projects from TU Delft. Max van Beek and his professor Peter Rem (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) are working on recycling electronic waste. Klokhuis writes: 'Phones and computers are
Eco-runner amazes everyone every year with vehicles that are incredibly fuel efficient. This year's target is 2,056 kilometres on 1.45 kilograms of hydrogen. This is what the 25 member Eco-runner Team Delft explained at their design presentation last week. While the target does mean 50% more fuel than last year, it also means that Eco-runner
A sodium-carbon battery that fully charges in nine minutes (1 Ah) and keeps that up for 3,000 cycles. That is what Professor Marnix Wagemakers and colleagues describe in a recent article in Nature. Wagemakers is attached to the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Electric transport and preventing an overloaded power grid require more and better batteries
TU Delft has been ranked 40th in the annual Times World Reputation Ranking. This makes it the highest ranked Dutch university, and the shared ninth in Europe. Times Higher Education establishes the list order based on a survey of established scientists. It is therefore about the image that scholars at universities worldwide have of other
In biology, proteins are the hands and feet of a cell, and they play a crucial role in numerous diseases. Up to now, proteins have been identified by cutting them up into small pieces and figuring out the original protein from there. Researchers at the Chirlmin Joo Lab (Faculty of Applied Sciences) presented a new
While TU Delft invests money in companies such as HollandPTC and does not shy away from financial risks, TU Eindhoven does not put money into companies. So reports Cursor, TU/e's independent news website. (Photo: Thijs van Reeuwijk) Dutch newspaper NRC recently reported that HollandPTC, the proton clinic on the TU Delft campus, is in financial
Members of The Young Academy are sticking the thermometer into Dutch science: how about stress, joy and the social safety of researchers? “Filling in the questionnaire takes 15 minutes at most,” says Joeri Tijdink, psychiatrist and ‘meta-scientist’ at VU University Amsterdam. He hopes thousands of researchers will want to participate in The Academy Thermometer, which…
