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Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Delft University of Technology, have signed a master research agreement (MRA) enabling bilateral collaboration across a range of sustainable aviation research opportunities, including advanced materials, hydrogen propulsion, advanced manufacturing and industrial design.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that Anh Khoa Doan, Assistant Professor in AI for Fluid Mechanics, will receive an ERC Starting Grant for his research on predicting and controlling extreme events in turbulent flows, such as the atmosphere or the oceans, with scientific machine learning.

On 29 August 2024, our much-esteemed former colleague Professor Egbert Torenbeek passed away at the age of 85. Egbert Torenbeek (1939) graduated in aeronautical engineering from TH Delft in 1961. He developed into a Professor of Aircraft Design (1980) and wrote the world-famous book ‘Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design’ (1976), also known as the ‘the Torenboek’. This book is still used worldwide as a basic book for aircraft design and design education.

Dr Sandra Potin, space instrumentation and planetary exploration researcher at TU Delft's Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, has received a Veni grant from NWO. Potin is researching the use of light polarisation to detect, isolate and better identify carbon-based molecules, the possible building blocks of life, on the surfaces of asteroids and comets in Space.

Planetary scientists have long believed that the organic macromolecules that make the Earth suitable for life come from chondrites. But until now, the question has been how these chondrites -aggregated pebbles mainly known as meteorites- acquired the macromolecules. An international team of researchers from, among others, the University of Bern and TU Delft has found an explanation for this using observation-based computer models.

Each year The International Aviation Women's Association (IAWA) awards a scholarship to a female student at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. This year, the scholarship of 5,000 USD goes to Master's student Tanya Spee.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded thirteen young TU Delft researchers from the Science (ENW) and Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW) domains, a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euro.

Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny, autonomous robots. TU Delft drone-researchers felt inspired by biological findings on how ants visually recognize their environment and combine it with counting their steps in order to get safely back home.

A team of researchers at TU Delft are the first in the world to apply quantum computing to solve an old riddle in the design of fibre-reinforced composite materials: how to determine the optimal sequence of angles at which the material’s layers are composed and stacked. This layering determines the mechanical properties of the material, essential for the application of composites for lightweight aircraft, wind turbine blades, cars or even batteries, etc. The QAIMS team have now gone through to the final rounds of the Airbus-BMW Quantum Computing Challenge where they will pitch their approach to ‘push the boundaries of quantum tech for mobility.’

Als het waterniveau ergens op aarde stijgt -of daalt- willen we dat graag snel weten, zodat niemand gevaar loopt. Daarvoor is het nodig om het wereldwijde watersysteem goed te begrijpen en het waterniveau veelvuldig en op vele plaatsen te kunnen meten. Dr. Jian Guo en zijn team van TU Delft, samen met industriële partners COMET Ingeniería en ISISPACE, hebben daarom een nieuw concept genaamd Alticube+ bedacht. Dit voorstel is recent uit meer dan 70 voorstellen door ESA geselecteerd om samen met een team van ESA experts verder te gaan ontwikkelen.