Professors retire too. But there are exceptions. Like lecturer and exhibition curator Max Risselada (1939), who only said goodbye 11 years after his official retirement.
Professors retire too. But there are exceptions. Like hydraulic engineer Han Vrijling (1947), who still offers expert advice.
Professors retire too – but there are exceptions. Like Wil Thissen (born 1949), founding father of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), who’s finally making time for ‘pensionado activities’ eleven years after his retirement.
Out of 2,400 applications from African academics, 51 were admitted as PhD candidates on a Dutch university. 24 of them have come to Delft. Last week, these participants on the GROW programme met up in Elspeet.
Professors also retire, but there are exceptions. Such as Johan Molenbroek (1951), the Ergonomist and human measurer, who is still working.
In collaboration with the offshore industry, TU Delft researchers are developing a system that can remotely monitor the condition of anchor chains. With the increasing number of floating energy platforms, this is becoming more important than ever.
On its 217th anniversary last week, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) appointed seventeen new members. One of them was Professor of Remote Sensing Pieternel Levelt (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences). Levelt’s research focuses on the quality of the air we breathe. From space, she investigates air quality, greenhouse gases and
The Superbus, a 15-metre-long limousine developed by Wubbo Ockels, is getting a new home near Groningen. The National Bus Museum in Hoogezand has acquired the futuristic vehicle from the collection of the now-bankrupt Dutch Transport Museum in Nieuw-Vennep, where it had been on display since the end of 2020. It seems a fitting location, as
A proposed policy change would make student sports so expensive that it could become unaffordable for the average student, say the Dutch National Student Association (ISO), Universities of the Netherlands, Student Sports Netherlands, the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, and NOC*NSF. ISO and its partners have launched a petition calling on the House of
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
