Latest News Open menu Search rss Open menu 03 May 2022 Zwaartekracht funding for quantum materials consortium The ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Zwaartekracht funding of 21.5 million euro to the consortium QuMAT, of which TU Delft researcher Kobus Kuipers (Quantum Nanoscience) is one of the lead applicants. Read more 03 May 2022 Zwaartekracht funding for living cells consortium The ministry of Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Zwaartekracht funding of 20.8 million euro to the IMAGINE! consortium, of which TU Delft researchers Elizabeth Carroll, Sjoerd Stallinga (both ImPhys) and Carlas Smith (3ME) are a part of. Read more 28 April 2022 Discovery of the one-way superconductor, thought to be impossible Associate Professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at TU Delft have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic fields, something that was thought to be impossible ever since its discovery in 1911 – up till now. Read more 27 April 2022 Royal award for Paulien Herder On 26 April 2022, Professor Paulien Herder, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, was awarded a Royal distinction in the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp. Paulien Herder was appointed a Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands, an award given to persons who have made an exceptional contribution to Dutch society. Read more 26 April 2022 ERC Advanced Grant for chemical dream reactions with enzymes One of the big societal challenges today, is that the chemical industry still consumes a considerable amount of energy and resources. “This is a global issue for most, if not all, chemicals that factories produce nowadays”, says researcher Frank Hollmann. He has received a 2.5 M€ ERC Advanced Grant from the European Union to help tackle this problem over the next five years, by engineering enzymes as a catalyst for chemical reactions. Read more 26 April 2022 From light spots to supersharp images Making detailed 3D images of proteins in living cells with a special light microscope, without damaging those cells. That is what Sjoerd Stallinga, winner of an ERC Advanced grant worth 2.3 million euros, wants to achieve. In order to do so he is going to scan samples nanometer by nanometer using a sophisticated 3D light pattern in an approach that requires extensive collaboration between different disciplines. Read more 19 April 2022 Bacterial soundtracks revealed by graphene membrane A of researchers from TU Delft , led by dr. Farbod Alijani, have managed to capture low-level noise of a single bacterium using graphene. Now, their research is published in Nature Nanotechnology. Read more 15 April 2022 National Growth Fund finances Cellular Agriculture The National Growth Fund of the Dutch government grants conditional funding of 60 million euros to the Cellular Agriculture consortium, whose goal is to produce and promote protein-rich food from cultivated cells. The TU Delft is one of the founders of the consortium, with Marcel Ottens as initiator of the line of research. The TU Delft, together with the companies PlanetBio, DSM, Meatable, CE Delft and others, forms a hub in Delft for this new field of work. Read more 14 April 2022 Growth Fund boosts sustainable aviation and next generation high tech Read more 14 April 2022 Rubicon grant for Jochem Vink Jochem Vink (Bionanoscience) has received a Rubicon grant from NWO, which enables him to gain research experience at a leading institute abroad. His research will be about useful fungi attracting pathogens. He was awarded the coveted grant along with 21 other researchers who recently received their PhDs. Read more ... Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 You are on page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Stay connected linkedin twitter Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page