31 January 2023
ERC Consolidator Grant for Kunal Masania's living composites
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.
17 January 2023
Emeritus Professor Prof.Dr. Jaap Schijve passed away
On Friday 13 January 2023, Emeritus Professor Jaap Schijve passed away at the age of 95. Professor Schijve graduated from TH Delft in 1953.
15 December 2022
Flight altitude determines climate impact of hypersonic aircraft
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.
06 December 2022
TU Delft students successful in Vertical Flight Society Student Competition
A team of six students from The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering led by Dr. Marilena Pavel have designed an electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi that is fully accessible for passengers with transportation difficulties. In these types of small aircraft designs this is still often overlooked. With this design, the team won the 2nd place in The Vertical Flight Society Annual Student Design Competition, Undergraduate category.
01 December 2022
Most nitrogen deposition from aviation comes from high altitude
Aircraft emit nitrogen oxides and other emissions during both the LTO-phase (taxiing, take-off and landing) and when flying at high altitudes. These emissions return to the ground, resulting in nitrogen deposited over land and water bodies. Using an atmospheric model, researchers at TU Delft have quantified - for the first time - that in 2019 aviation was responsible for just under 1.2% of total global nitrogen deposition from all sources.
30 November 2022
ERC Advanced Grant for Chiara Bisagni
The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to Chiara Bisagni, Full Professor of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering TU Delft.
24 November 2022
Senior Researcher Award Airborne for Bruno Santos
Bruno Santos received the TRA VISIONS 2022 Senior Researcher Award Airborne earlier this month at the TRA Conference in Lisbon. Bruno’s work as the coordinator of the EC Horizon 2020 ReMap project was perhaps the major contribution to his award.
22 November 2022
Working in high winds
On Friday, 25 November, he holds his farewell speech at the end of the symposium "The Future of Wind. His last official words as professor at TU Delft. Professor Dr. Gerard van Bussel is one of the founding fathers of scientific education and research in the field of wind energy. Strongly connected to the world's challenges and co-responsible for today's solutions. A livable climate in the future has always been dear to him.
21 November 2022
ERC Starting Grant for Francesco Avallone and Ivan Langella
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. Two of them are scientists from the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft. This European grant of €1.5 million for a five-year programme is designed to allow individual scientists to build their own teams and carry out pioneering research.
15 November 2022
“We should take the lead in this industry”
The test centre for drone and sensor applications Unmanned Valley will get access to a drone-corridor to sea, right over the dunes near Katwijk. This new flight path goes from former air force base Valkenburg (South-Holland) to the North Sea and has just opened.