Archive
13 March 2023
Volkert van der Wijk in various media
08 March 2023
Aimée Sakes joins board NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences
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The board of the NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) appoints dr. ir. Aimée Sakes as new board member. She will join the board as of 1 April 2023.
07 March 2023
Rudy Negenborn’s vision on autonomous ships in Nature
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Nature published an article ‘Autonomous ships are on the horizon: here’s what we need to know’ about autonomous ships that highlights research gaps in six key areas. Rudy Negenborn and his co-authors touch upon critical challenges in the development and deployment of autonomous ships in practice, that are not receiving sufficient attention in research and innovation.
03 March 2023
New tool for organ repair: curvature of the environment
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28 February 2023
TU Delft presents the eight best Climate Action & Energy Papers
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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.
28 February 2023
Sergio Grammatico has been awarded an NWO ENW-M1 grant
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Sergio Grammatico, Associate Professor at the Delft Centre for Systems and Control (DCSC) has been awarded an individual NWO ENW-M1 grant of € 365.000 for his research project on wind farm control and optimization. NWO ENW-M grants are intended for curiosity-driven scientific research.
27 February 2023
Victor Gonzalez in various media
20 February 2023
Michaël Wiertlewski in various media
20 February 2023
Michaël Wiertlewski in various media
20 February 2023
Arend Schwab in various media
20 February 2023
Gerwin Smit in various media
16 February 2023
The Ship Hydromechanics lab welcomes the upgraded Wave-Flume Tank
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A number of internal relocations have taken place in the 3mE building the past year and one of them was the relocation of the Wave-Flume Tank. The tank has been moved from building section J to the API hall nearby in Leeghwaterstraat to create space for projects being conducted in the Fluid Mechanics Lab. The Wave-Flume Tank has returned home: at the Ship Hydromechanics Lab.
14 February 2023
Rapid change of friction causes tactile ultrasound illusion
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Michaël Wiertlewski, Assistant Professor at the Cognitive Robotics Department, and his colleagues have created a glass plate that can quickly change its friction. It does this with an actuator that releases waves of ultrasound to vibrate the plate. Their research is published in the ‘Royal Society Interface journal’.
14 February 2023
Vijayendra Umesh Shastri has been awarded an NWO-XS grant
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Vijayendra Umesh Shastri from the Precions and Microsystems Engineering Department has been awarded a NOW-XS grant for his quantitative de-cellurarization with single-cell resolution project.
02 February 2023
Mohammad Khosravi has been granted the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology medal
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Mohammad Khosravi has been granted the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) medal for his doctoral thesis titled "Side-Information in Linear and Nonlinear System Identification".
02 February 2023
Lorenzo Botto has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant
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His research is based on a previous ERC grant on graphene nanoparticles, in which centrifugation was used to sort particles by size classes.
31 January 2023
John van den Dobbelsteen appointed professor of Medical Process Engineering
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John van den Dobbelsteen has been appointed professor of Medical Process Engineering. His research focuses on improving the interaction between surgical staff and medical technology, with a particular emphasis on alleviating hiccups in the workflow throughout the entire surgical process, from pre-op to post-op.
30 January 2023
NWO-xs grant for new ‘Green’ way to produce Ammonia
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Mahinder Ramdin (P&E) an NWO-xs grant for his ‘Green Ammonia Production’ project, GAPLiC. Ammonia is important in the production of fertiliser, and therefore mass food production, but the current ammonia production process consumes enormous amounts of energy - 1% of all the energy produced globally.
17 January 2023
‘Do you also make money as a professor?"
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During ‘Meet the Professor’, four 3mE professors visited several Delft primary schools. They gave fifth and sixth grade pupils guest lessons dressed in togas.
17 January 2023
Visualising internal stresses in solid polymers using colour-changing Spiropyrans
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Spiropyrans are chemicals that change colour when you shine light on them – a useful property in many areas of medicine and technology. Now Georgy Filonenko and his colleague, Richard Janissen at the Faculty of Applied Science have discovered a new use for these so-called photochromic molecules - visualising stresses in solid polymers. Their research is published in the ‘Journal of the American Chemical Society.’
16 January 2023
New methods to investigate the interface between biomaterials and cells to help regenerate body tissues
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Lidy Fratila-Apachitei and Murali Ghatkesar received a Cohesion grant to investigate how 3-D printed pillars with features in the sub-micrometre range can affect adhesion and mechanics of living progenitor cells at single cell level. Together with postdoc researcher Livia Angeloni and the other collaborators, they developed and applied a novel method based on fluid force microscopy.
22 December 2022
Gerwin Smit in various media
22 December 2022
Victims of the war in Ukraine receive prosthetic hands designed by TU Delft
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the need for prosthetic hands has increased sharply. TU Delft researcher Gerwin Smit has designed a prosthetic hand that can be made through a combination of 3-D printing and laser-cutting, which means that they be produced easily and relatively cheaply in countries that have little money to spend on such things. These prosthetic hands are already being used in India and now, the Indian technology company Vispala has donated 350 of Smit’s 3D-printed prosthetic hands to war victims in Ukraine, sponsored by the American IT-company, Cisco.
22 December 2022
Willem Haverkort in various media
22 December 2022
Burak Eral in various media
20 December 2022
Joost de Winter appointed Professor of Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction
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De Winter’s research focuses on touchless interaction between robots and humans so that in the future, robots can read and understand the intentions and instructions of humans in their vicinity by means of eye-tracking and other sensors. And robots, in turn, will be able to adapt their functioning to communicate their own intentions both to nearby humans and other robots. The vision is to contribute to a future in which humans and robots share cognitive processes and adapt to each other.
19 December 2022
EU Funds SeaClear2.0 for more underwater robots to collect heavier seafloor litter
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Following the success of SeaClear1, which showed that a system of autonomous robots can detect and remove litter from the seafloor, the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme has awarded a second project, SeaClear2.0, nearly 8 million euros to extend the use of multiple robots working together to identify and collect even heavier objects from deeper seas.
15 December 2022
3mE wins both second and fourth place in Best Tech-idea 2022
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08 December 2022
Nastaran Barin has developed a promising tool for studying brain cancer mechanobiology
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Understanding the mechanobiology of glioma cells is of paramount importance for prospective treatment screening of this brain tumour. Nastaran Barin and Angelo Accard developed, in a joint effort with Erasmus MC, biomimetic 3D structures via two-photon polymerization and cultured therein patient derived glioma cells.
30 November 2022
Research from TU Delft in the Rijksmuseum
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A smart alternative to the traditional sandbag and an experiment with clay to learn more about strengthening dikes. These are two examples of TU Delft research that is currently being exhibited as art at the Rijksmuseum.
28 November 2022
Ruud Kortlever in various media
28 November 2022
Rudy Helmons in various media
22 November 2022
Saskia van Heumen TU Delft Best Graduate 2022
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Saskia van Heumen has been voted TU Delft’s Best Graduate 2022 for her outstanding research on the use of LED photoacoustics in treating Lymphoedema.
22 November 2022
Saskia van Heumen: TU Delft Best Graduate 2022
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Today, at the TU Delft Best Graduate Award Ceremony 2022, eight recently graduated engineers presented their research and results of their excellent master thesis. Ir. Saskia van Heumen, graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), received the prestigious title TU Delft Best Graduate 2022. For her graduation research, Saskia developed a method to accurately image lymphatic vessels in patients.
22 November 2022
ERC Starting Grant for Ali Akyildiz
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The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Ali Akyildiz. Akyildiz’s research focusses on cardiovascular biomechanics, specifically individual people’s susceptibility to cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, due to biomechanical failure in their blood vessels. This 1.5 million euros grant is to cover the costs of a five-year research programme, and is awarded to researchers who are at the start of their career, but have already excelled in a promising line of research.
22 November 2022
OpenSim Creator: Empowering biomedical research with biomechanical models wins CZI EOSS Award
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Ajay Seth has been awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant of US$ 350,000 to develop his project, OpenSim Creator. This open-source biomechanical simulator will enable researchers worldwide to create accurate neuromuscular and musculoskeletal models within hours, enabling better and faster responses to biomedical questions about human and animal mobility.
17 November 2022
Electric technology to save energy in drying processes
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Scientists of TU Delft and four other Dutch universities join forces to save energy in drying processes. In the ELECTRIFIED project, the researchers will use the power of electricity and electrical fields to develop breakthrough technologies for large energy savings in industrial drying processes.
14 November 2022
Can robots invent tools like our ancient ancestors did?
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How did ancient humans learn to make tools? And can we apply that knowledge to help AI-based robots learn creative skills? Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Geeske Langejans are heading up the TU Delft part of the multi-national METATOOL project, which is a unique combination of archaeology, neuroscience and robotics.
10 November 2022
Successful demo of long-range remotely-controlled vessels
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The first fully-automated demo of AVATARs - autonomous emission-free waterways vessels - took place on the pond in front of the 3mE building. Three model-scaled vessels neatly demonstrated their manoeuvrability, precision controlled turning and steering capabilities thanks to long-range Wi-Fi and 4G communications and newly-developed AI directed collision-avoidance technology.
10 November 2022