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The best graduate of the faculty in 2022, Mireia Leon Dasi, has now also won the Heinz Stoewer Space Award 2023 for her graduation project on predicting and preventing collisions with space debris.

Record temperatures, floodings and melting sea ice: radical weather events are becoming more frequent and have a devastating effect on our planet and our lives. By accelerating the energy transition and climate action TU Delft, together with its partners, tries to prevent climate change and contain its consequences. With the election of the Best Climate & Energy Paper, TU Delft is highlighting a number of large and small innovations that contribute to this.

Advanced composites are gaining ground in many areas, also in aerospace and in the wind energy sector, as they are lightweight and help to save energy. What is still missing are accurate and fast pre-production methods to optimise the durability of such large-scale composite structures. TU Delft researchers contribute to the recently launched EU-funded project D-STANDART led by the Netherlands Aerospace Centre Royal NLR.

Can we fly climate-neutral in the future? What will the aircraft of the future look like, what energy carriers or fuels will they fly on and what choices can you make yourself? From 16 February, TU Delft experts share their knowledge on sustainable aviation in the free online course 'Sustainable Aviation: The Route to Climate-Neutral Aviation'.

Living materials such as bone, wood or fungi have the ability to adapt to their environment. They can renew, strengthen and even heal themselves when conditions demand it. Associate Professor of Aerospace Structures and Materials Dr Kunal Masania investigates how to apply this exceptional adaptability from Nature into functional materials, for example for use in aerospace.

Looking at aircraft sound. A title that takes a while to land. How can you look at sound? And, what information does it provide? Mirjam Snellen, Full Professor ‘Aircraft Noise and Climate Effects (ANCE), knows all about it. On Friday, Feb. 3, she held her inaugural address in the TU Delft Auditorium. An impressive speech about the need for new computational models for sustainable aviation.

TU Delft is partnering with Technology Partners Warsaw, TU Dresden, the Polish Air Force Institute of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology to strengthen the Polish Mazovia region’s position as a competence hub for multifunctional composites and smart structures.

The European Research Council has awarded Associate Professor of Aerospace Structures and Materials, Dr Kunal Masania an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million for his research proposal AM-IMATE. This research on living composites can lead to ground breaking technology for making aviation more sustainable.

On Friday 13 January 2023, Emeritus Professor Jaap Schijve passed away at the age of 95. Professor Schijve graduated from TH Delft in 1953.

Researchers at the German Aerospace Centre DLR, TU Delft and the Université Paris-Saclay have found that the climate impact of hypersonic aircraft flying on liquid hydrogen at 25 and 35 km altitude is at least 10 to 20 times worse than that of a regular subsonic aircraft at around 10 km altitude serving the same routes and number of passengers. This is due to the accumulation of water vapour in the stratosphere.