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Five promising researchers from TU Delft's Faculty of Aerospace Engineering have been granted Veni funding by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This funding, totaling EUR 280,000 for each recipient, will empower the awardees to advance their individual research concepts over the course of the upcoming three years. Today we introduce Delphine de Tavernier.

Marios Kotsonis, professor at the Aerospace faculty of TU Delft, and his team are awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant for DeLaH, the Delft Laminar Hump. DeLaH aims at breakthrough passive, robust, and effective laminarisation of aircraft wings.

The Dutch Research Council (NOW) has awarded Veni funding of up to EUR 280,000 to 188 promising researchers from the full breadth of science. In the fields of Applied and Technical Sciences (TTW) and Exact and Natural Sciences (ENW), seventeen scientists from TU Delft have been honoured. This will allow the laureates to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.

De International Aviation Women’s Association (IAWA) reikt ieder jaar een beurs uit aan een vrouwelijke student van de faculteit Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaarttechniek. Dit jaar gaat de beurs van 5.000 USD naar Masterstudent Space Flight, Margot Winters: "De IAWA beurs is een unieke kans voor mij om een netwerk op te bouwen van internationale vrouwelijke experts op het gebied van luchtvaart- en ruimtevaarttechniek - een kans die ik met beide handen zal aangrijpen."

The Delft Space Institute is taking significant steps towards lunar exploration by investing 200K Euros into the Moonshot program; an initiative that seeks to advance science and technology solutions for lunar surface missions. Researchers and students from diverse faculties will join forces to pursue this shared goal.

In the sweltering and humid tropical rainforest, a vibrant ecosystem thrives. Birds of paradise, monkeys, bats, and insects harmoniously move about in the tree canopy, all making their own distinctive sounds. But then, a newcomer arrives: a small quadcopter drone hovers through the foliage, looking for a branch to land on.

NWO has announced that 19 consortia will receive funding within the National Research Agenda programme: Research on Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC). One of these is HybridLabs coordinated by Prof.Dr. Axelle Viré, Full Professor of Floating Wind Energy at TU Delft.

Researchers Sergio Turteltaub and Santiago Garcia Espallargas of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering are taking part in the new EU project HEALING BAT, which is researching self-healing batteries, also for implementation in the aerospace sector.

On June the 29th the board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences announced that it is funding seven research projects through the Open Technology Programme. One of them is ‘ Damage Tolerance of Cold Spray Additive Repairs’ (CSAR) by John-Alan Pascoe.

Henri Werij, Dean of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, is one of the five winners of the Clean Aviation High Five Awards. This was announced by the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking research and innovation programme at a ceremony during the Paris Air Show on 20 June 2023.