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Professors Prof. dr. D.M. (Dariu) Gavrila Group leader Intelligent Vehicles Intelligent Vehicles, Machine Perception Prof. Dr. ir. R. (Riender) Happee Intelligent Vehicles Human factors and comfort of automated driving Associate Professors Dr. J.F.P. (Julian) Kooij Intelligent Vehicles Multi-sensor Perception, Machine Learning, Self-driving vehicles, Situation analysis and Prediction, Probabilistic inference, Representation learning, 3D Urban Understanding lab Dr. B. (Barys) Shyrokau Intelligent Vehicles Dynamics, Vehicle Control, ADAS/AD Assistant Professors Dr. H. (Holger) Caesar Intelligent Vehicles Deep learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Perception, Prediction, ML Planning, Active learning Dr. G. (Georgios) Papaioannou Intelligent Vehicles Motion comfort, human perception, postural stability, human body modelling, seat design, vehicle control Researchers & PostDocs C.S. (Charlotte) Croucher Intelligent Vehicles Ir. O.M. (Oscar) de Groot Intelligent Vehicles G. (Guopeng) Li Intelligent Vehicles Y. (Yancong) Lin Intelligent Vehicles X. (Xiaoyu) Liu Intelligent Vehicles F. (Farzam) Tajdari Intelligent Vehicles PhD Students A. (Alberto) Bertipaglia Intelligent Vehicles H.J. (Hidde) Boekema Intelligent Vehicles Ir. V. (Varun) Kotian Intelligent Vehicles C. (Chrysovalante) Messiou Intelligent Vehicles T. (Ted) de Vries Lentsch Intelligent Vehicles S. (Shiming) Wang Intelligent Vehicles M. (Mubariz) Zaffar Intelligent Vehicles Technical Support Ir. R.M. (Ronald) Ensing Intelligent Vehicles Dr. M.A. (Mario) Garzon Intelligent Vehicles

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Do you believe that failure is not an option? Do you sometimes feel like you are the only one struggling with something? Do you feel you always have to be at your best? Or do you wonder who you are among all the talented people around you? These are just some of the questions answered by nearly 70 students from all eight faculties in a special video series. They talk openly about how they deal with pressure to perform, high expectations and all kinds of insecurities. Because being a student is about more than just studying. Be inspired by their stories and find out what insights are most valuable to you. Episode 1: Tuur and Diogo AS Episode 1: Albaara and Abhishek ME Episode 1: Rutger and Veerle TPM Episode 1: Aditi and Christos More episodes Faculty of Aerospace Engineering AE Faculty of Applied Sciences AS Faculty of Mechanical Engineering ME Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management TPM

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Full Professors Prof.dr.ir. B.J. Boersma (Bendiks Jan) Head of the Department Maritime & Transport Technology Prof.dr. R.R. Negenborn (Rudy) Head of Transport Engineering & Logistics Prof.dr.ir. C. van Rhee (Cees) ✝ In memoriam Prof.dr.ir. D.L. Schott (Dingena) Transport Engineering & Logistics Prof.dr. G.D. Weymouth (Gabe) Head of Ship Hydromechanics Parttime Professors Prof.ir. J.J. Hopman (Hans) Ship Design, Production & Operations Prof.dr. R. Ross (Rob) Prof.dr.ir. T.J.C. van Terwisga (Tom) Ship Hydromechanics Associated Professors Dr. B. Atasoy (Bilge) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr. A. Coraddu (Andrea) Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr.ir. R.L.J. Helmons (Rudy) Dredging Engineering Dr.ir. A.A. Kana (Austin) Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr.ir. G.H. Keetels (Geert) Dredging Engineering Dr.ir. J.F.J. Pruijn (Jeroen) ad interim head of Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr.ir. L. Pahlavan (Pooria) Ship and Offshore Structures Dr.ir. H. Polinder (Henk) Transport Engineering & Logistics Ir. K. Visser (Klaas) Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr. C.L. Walters (Carey) Ship and Offshore Structures Dr.ir. P.R. Wellens (Peter) Ship Hydromechanics Assistant Professors Dr.ir. I. Akkerman (Ido) Ship Hydromechanics Dr.ir. S. Alhaddad (Said) Dredging Engineering Dr.ir. J.H. den Besten (Henk) Ship and Offshore Structures Dr.ir. L. van Biert (Lindert) Ship Design, Production & Operations ir. M.B. Duinkerken (Mark) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr. D. Fiscaletti (Daniele) Ship Hydromechanics Dr. B. Font (Bernat) Ship Hydromechanics Dr. A. Grammatikopoulos (Apostolos) Ship and Offshore Structures Dr.ir. A. Jarquin Laguna (Antonio) Dredging Engineering Dr.ir. X.L. Jiang (Xiaoli) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr. J. Jovanova (Jovana) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr. A. Napoleone (Alessia) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr.ir. Y. Pang (Yusong) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr. V. Reppa (Vasso) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr.-Ing. S. Schreier (Sebastian) Ship Hydromechanics Dr. F. Schulte (Frederik) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr. H.C. Seyffert (Harleigh) Ship Hydromechanics Dr.ir. A.M. Talmon (Arno) Dredging Engineering Dr.-Ing. C.H. Thill (Cornel) Ship Design, Production & Operation Dr.ir. N. (Nico) Valle Marchante Dr.ir. P. de Vos (Peter) Ship Design, Production & Operations Teachers ir. W. van den Bos (Wouter) Transport Engineering & Logistics ir. J.L. Gelling (Jaap) Ship Design, Production & Operations Ing. B. Goris (Bas) Ship Design, Production & Operations Prof. E.B.H.J. van Hassel (Edwin) Ship Design, Production & Operations ir. D.J.C. Herlaar (David) Ship Design, Production & Operations ir. J. Köhlenberg (Jelco) Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr.ir. H.J. de Koning Gans (Henk) Ship Hydromechanics Dr.ir. P. Naaijen (Peter) Ship Hydromechanics ir. M. van der Schaaf (Thijs) Ship Design, Production & Operations ir. J.J.B. Teuben (Jack) Ship Design, Production & Operations Ing. R.H. van Till (Roelf) Ship Design, Production & Operations E.H.M. Ulijn (Erik) Ship Design, Production & Operations Researchers/Postdocs Dr. A. Asgari (Ali) Ship and Offshore Structures A.D. Charisi (Nicole) Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr.ir. X. Chen (Xiuhan) Dredging Engineering J. Duran Micco (Javier) Transport Engineering & Logistics J. García Martín (Javier) Transport Engineering & Logistics Dr.ir. A.J.J. van der Heijden (Bram) Ship and Offshore Structures Dr. G. Jacobi (Gunnar) Ship Hydromechanics Dr.ing. S. Khoshsima (Sina) Transport Engineering & Logistics N. Kougiatsos (Nikolaos) Transport Engineering & Logistics G. Lupo (Giandomenico) Ship Hydromechanics Dr. J. Poblador Ibanez (Jordi) W. Peet (Wieger) Ship Design, Production & Operations W. Qu (Wenhua) Transport Engineering & Logistics G. Ricard (Guillaume) Ship Hydromechanics Dr.ir. B. Scheeren (Bart) Ship and Offshore Structures Dr. H. Shi (Hao) Transport Engineering & Logistics ir. J. Vollbrandt (Jasper) Ship Design, Production & Operations Dr. R. de Winter (Roy) Ship Design, Production & Operations PhD M. Adly (Mohammed) Ship and Offshore Structures K.V. Álvarez (Katherine) Ship Hydromechanics M. Anisimov (Mikhail) Transport Engineering & Logistics R.S. Anku (Richmond) Ship Design Productions & Operations A.C. Azevedo Vasconcelos (Ana) Transport Engineering & Logistics M. van Benten (Marcel) Transport Engineering & Logistics M.M. Bockstael (Marnix) Ship Hydromechanics A.D. Boon (Anna) Ship Hydromechanics M. Borsotti (Marco) Transport Engineering & Logistics R. Bourkaib (Ryane) Ship Hydromechanics A.E. Broer (Annabel) Ship Design, Production & Operations S.V. Bult (Sterre) Dredging Engineering M. Cabral (Manuel) Ship Hydromechanics A. Calvache (Miguel) Ship Design, Production & Operations A. Caspani (Andrea) Transport Engineering & Logistics H.E. Ceyhun (Ege) Ship Design, Production & Operations Q. Chen (Aaron) Transport Engineering & Logistics A. Dhyani (Abhishek) Transport Engineering & Logistics S. Durgaprasad (Sankarshan) Transport Engineering & Logistics S. van Essen (Sanne) Ship Hydromechanics P. Fang (Pan) Transport Engineering & Logistics R.D. Geertsma (Rinze) Ship Design, Production & Operations V. Georgopoulos (Vasileios) Ship Hydromechanics S.R.A. de Geus (Sietske) Ship Design, Production & Operations G. Giampaolo (Claudio) Ship Hydromechanics N.G.H. Goselink (Niek) Ship Design, Production & Operations P. Gowda (Punya) Ship and Offshore Structures B. Grenko (Bojan) Ship Design, Production & Operations R. Habiyaremye (Romain) Ship Hydromechanics A.H. Hadi (Ahmed) Transport Engineering & Logistics J. Hoffstad (Justus) Dredging Engineering T.Y. Huang (Tzu-Yao) Ship Hydromechanics A.J. Huijer Arno) Ship and Offshore Structures I. Jacobs (Isabelle) Ship Design, Production & Operations S. Jena (Sankalp) Ship Hydromechanics C. Karademir (Cigdem) Transport Engineering & Logistics K. Kiouranakis (Konstantinos) Ship Design, Production & Operations T. Kopka (Timon) Transport Engineering & Logistics V. Krishnan (Vasu) Ship Hydromechanics L.P. Lagendijk (Laurens-Jan) Ship Hydromechanics M.H. de Lange (Matthis) Ship Design, Production & Operations A. Latorre Correa (Alejandro) Transport Engineering & Logistics R. Leite Patrão (Rafael) Transport Engineering and Logistics Y. Linden (Youri) Ship Design, Production & Operations C. Loffler (Charlotte) Ship Design, Production & Operations X. Lyu (Xiaohuan) Transport Engineering & Logistics M. Mahgoub (Mosaab) Dredging Engineering N. Mattathil Suresh (Nandini) Transport Engineering & Logistics D.S. Mendoza (Sofía) Ship Design, Production & Operations F. Mylonopoulos (Foivos) Transport Engineering & Logistics H. Naghash (Hesam) Ship Design, Production & Operations B. Noble (Ben) Ship Design, Production & Operations D. Noffke (Deborah) Ship Design, Production & Operations Z.P. Oikonomou (Zacharias) Ship Design, Production & Operations H. Pot (Hanna) Ship Hydromechanics V.M.J. Ramos (Jayvee) Transport Engineering & Logistics E.S. van Rheenen (Erin) Ship Design, Production & Operations F. Riccioli (Filippo) Ship and Offshore Structures R. Roeplal (Raïsa) Transport Engineering & Logistics C. Saccone (Cecilia) Ship and Offshore Structures C.P. Salim (Chatarina) Ship Design, Production & Operations G.C. Satish (Gokul) Ship Hydromechanics T.K. Scheepstra (Karel) Transport Engineering & Logistics E. Scheffers (Evelien) Ship Design, Production & Operations S. Slagter (Simeon) Transport Engineering & Logistics R.L.G. Slange (Ruben) Ship and Offshore Structures A.S.R. Souflis-Rigas (Apostolos) Ship Design, Production & Operations S. Tamburello (Sara) Ship Design, Production & Operations X. Tang (Xinyu) Transport Engineering & Logistics A.A.A. Thomas (Amy) Ship and Offshore Structures N.C.H. Troost (Niels) Ship and Offshore Structures N. Vasilikis (Nikos) Ship Design, Production & Operations B.N. van Veldhuizen (Berend) Ship Design, Production & Operations S. Wahab (Shaheen) Dredging Engineering J.M. Walker (Jake) Ship Design, Production & Operations R.G. van de Wetering (Rick) Dredging Engineering C.S. Wijesinghe (Chamod) Transport Engineering and Logistics W.J. Wong (Wei Jun) Ship and Offshore Structures X. Xiong (Xin) Transport Engineering & Logistics C. Yang (Ethan) Transport Engineering & Logistics C.M. van Zijl (Christof) Ship and Offshore Structures K. Zoumpourlos (Konstantinos) Ship Design, Production & Operations J.J. Zwaginga (Jesper) Ship Design, Production & Operations Support Staff G.S.F. Woutersen MSc (Gracia) Department Manager M&TT Support Staff - Management Assistants E. Zoutewelle-Tuk (Emiel) Management Assistant Head of Department and Department Manager Department M&TT P. Bokop-van der Stap (Patty) Management Assistant Transport Engineering & Logistics (TEL) Vacancy Management Assistant Ship Design Production & Operations (SDPO) P. de Ruijt-Franke (Pauline) Management Assistant Offshore and Dredging Engineering (ODE) T.J.P. Vermeulen (Tessa) Management Assistant Ship Hydromechanics (SH) and Ship and Offshore Structures (SAOS) Support Staff - Assistants Master Coordinator A. de Goede-Oosterhoff (Anouk) Assistant Master Coordinator Marine Technology (MT) and Multi Machine Engineering (MME) N. Tulner (Nancy) Assistant Master Coordinator Support Staff - Technical B.A. van den Bosch (Andre) Lab Coordinator Hexapod Technician ODE Lab Ing. V. Garofano (Vittorio) Lab Coordinator RAS Lab Transport Engineering & Logistics J.G. den Ouden (Jasper) Technician Ship Hydromechanics Lab A. Piras (Angela) Technician Ship Hydromechanics Lab Ing. C.P. Poot (Peter) Head Technician Ship Hydromechanics Lab F.J. Sterk (Frits) Technician Ship Hydromechanics Lab E.F.L. 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Apply to become a student fellow at Impact Studio’s Ideation lab!

Do you want to experience entrepreneurship? Are you curious about how exploring business opportunities work? Join the Ideation Lab ..

Energy Hubs: Stories of Team Science

In this longread we talk with Peter Palensky, head of the department Electrical Sustainable Energy, and with Laura Ramirez Elizondo, Associate Professor Micro-grids, about the important role for energy hubs in the energy transition

The TU Delft Library – a driving force of open access publishing

With open publishing deeply ingrained in the DNA of TU Delft it is easy to overlook what happens behind the scenes. Joke Dales and Kees Moerman, both longtime employees of the TU Delft Library, have been involved from the start and they still provide abundant support.

Enrolment for new courses open on 13 November

The new courses will start from Monday 18 November. Enrolment for these starts from Wednesday 13 November at 08.00! In the second quarter, a new series of courses awaits you. You can find out more on the website. Maybe you already know that you want to attend your favourite course again or maybe you want to discover and try something new; it's all possible. Enrolments go fast Enrolment for our courses always runs fast, so don't wait too long or be surprised by a course where spots are still available! Enrolment closes Enrolment closes on Friday 22 November at 16.00.

Boost you Resillience

Develop yourself with the e-tool Gezondeboel Setbacks and challenges are a normal part of life, including student life. What you find challenging and how you deal with it is personal. It is important that you learn to deal with these challenges and grow from them. The Gezondeboel e-tool offers a wide range of online programmes that meet your development needs as a student. Think about topics such as stress, balance, decision making, planning, procrastination, fear of failure, perfectionism, feelings of loneliness and more. Use Gezondeboel as a self-help tool to strengthen your mental resilience. The programmes are suitable for everyone and offer practical tips for quick results. Choose a programme that suits you and follow it at your own pace, wherever and whenever you want - even via your mobile phone or tablet. You can follow as many programmes as you like, completely free and anonymously. Log in via the Student Portal using the link below. www.tudelft.nl/gezondeboel

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Month 2024: Aftermovie

Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) Month took place at TU Delft throughout October 2024, with the theme "United for Change, Together We Grow." This month featured over 20 events and activities organized by more than 35 contributors, providing a valuable opportunity for hands-on workshops, training sessions, and open discussions on various topics: Inclusive communication Unconscious bias Ally skills Neurodiversity Intercultural teamwork Good practices in EDI Girls in Tech Queer emancipation Emotional intelligence at work Deep Democracy and Inclusion Inclusive education Aftermovie Thanks to all faculties, student associations, networks, Diversity & Inclusion office for making this month possible! In this short aftermovie , you can get a glimpse of some (of the many) highlights of this month!

Don’t forget to terminate your enrolment after the final part of your study

Your termination of registration does not happen automatically! Have you completed the final part of your study? Please be aware that you need to send a request to terminate your enrolment through Studielink as it will not be done automatically. When you terminate your enrolment at TU Delft, you are entitled to a refund of one twelfth of the annual tuition fee for each month of the academic year in which you are no longer enrolled, with the exception of termination as from July and August. Enrolment termination with retroactive effect is not possible. Be aware! If you are not enrolled and you still use educational or examination facilities (including taking exams) there will be financial consequences. It can also affect your student grants and/or student travel product. For more information, please check the Student Administration website: Termination of Enrolment (tudelft.nl)

Celebrating One Year of Work Package ‘Future Skills for Engineers and Scientists’

Work Package ‘Future Skills for Engineers and Scientists’, marked one year of work with the completion of our Future Competencies Report. The report consists of our analysis of student surveys, alumni surveys, and self-conducted interviews. Notably, it includes a taxonomy of future competencies and future challenges, with further explanation about specific terms and trends. Over the coming months, these competencies and challenges will form the foundation for a SWOT analysis that aims to determine areas that we, as an alliance, need to address to advance European and technological development. During this process, we will seek to further align with our other ENHANCE work packages, such as those on Future Learning pedagogies and Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and continue to engage key stakeholders in European education, government and industry. If you would like to receive a digital copy of the Future Competencies Report, please contact g.r.penny@tudelft.nl Upcoming Work Package 4 events: 6 November 2025, TU Delft – Work Package 4 ‘Future Skills for Engineers and Scientists’ and Work Package ‘Diversity, Impact and Dissemination’ workshop: A DEI Perspective on Future Engineering Competencies and Challenges. 13 and 14 February 2025, TU Delft – Annual Work Package 4 meeting.

Work Package ‘IT Infrastructure and Services’ meetings

On the 5th and the 6th of September, the TU Delft was hosing the meeting with the work package ‘IT Infrastructure and Services’ leads from RWTH Aachen to discuss IT requirements and solutions aimed at enhancing the learner’s journey and reducing administrative burdens. In addition to this visit from RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich hosted the inaugural IT Knowledge Hub. The event was a resounding success, bringing together IT and Education officers to collaborate and gain a deeper understanding of the innovative IT improvements needed to better serve our universities and the ENHANCE Alliance. This gathering provided a fantastic opportunity for closer collaboration and innovation.
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9 researchers from ELLIS Unit Delft honoured with Fellows or Scholars title

TU Delft has participated in ELLIS since 2019, currently with over 30 active members within the ELLIS Unit Delft. A total of nine researchers have recently been honour with an ELLIS Fellow or Scholar title.

A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities

An international research team led by QuTech has demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future quantum internet. The team developed fully independently operating nodes and integrated these with deployed optical internet fibre, enabling a 25 km quantum link. The researchers published their findings in Science Advances.

Bachelor students develop model to better understand the chemical process of renewable fuels

A group of TU Delft bachelor students has developed, as part of the students’ minor in Computational Science and Engineering, a new model that accurately predicts the molecular properties of alkanes. This knowledge is crucial for the development of renewable fuels.

Pioneering Tech: GovTech, Generative AI, and Defense Innovation

This week, the latest edition of Pioneering Tech has been released. The cover story of this edition focuses on GovTech: the collaborative development of government technology by public and private sectors. GovTech can better safeguard public values and reduce government reliance on 'Big Tech' companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Battling the data hunger of Big Tech

Devices like smartphones and laptops have become indispensable in our daily lives. By using them, we share vast amounts of data, such as photos, personal information, and location details. Despite protective legislation, large tech companies have increasing control over how data is gathered and processed, expanding their power. TU Delft researchers Seda Gürses and Lilika Markatou are working to expose the practices of Big Tech and develop new privacy protocols and systems to curb this power and better protect users.

How do we keep the internet, and therefore Dutch and European society, safe?

Scientific research is rarely performed by an individual scientist; it usually involves the work of an entire team of people. Besides this, some topics and challenges are so complex and multifaceted that they affect various faculties and call for multidisciplinary approaches. At TU Delft, a team of researchers and support staff have joined forces to tackle the issue of improving cybersecurity and detecting cybercrime. How do we keep the internet, and therefore Dutch and European society, safe?

Researchers hand over Position Paper to Tweede Kamer

On behalf of the TU Delft PowerWeb Institute, researchers Kenneth Brunninx and Simon Tindemans are handing over a Position Paper to the Dutch Parliament on 14 November 2024, with a possible solution to the major grid capacity problems that are increasingly cropping up in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is unlikely to meet the 2030 climate targets, and one of the reasons for this is that large industry cannot switch to electricity fast enough, partly because of increasingly frequent problems around grid capacity and grid congestion. In all likelihood, those problems will actually increase this decade before they can decrease, the researchers argue. The solution offered by the TU Delft PowerWeb Institute researchers is the ‘flexible backstop’. With a flexible backstop, the current capacity of the power grid can be used more efficiently without sacrificing safety or reliability. A flexible backstop is a safety mechanism that automatically and quickly reduces the amount of electricity that an electric unit can draw from the grid (an electric charging station or a heat pump) or deliver (a PV installation). It is a small device connected or built into an electrical unit, such as a charging station or heat pump, that ‘communicates’ with the distribution network operator. In case of extreme stress on the network, the network operator sends a signal to the device to limit the amount of power. Germany recently introduced a similar system with electric charging stations. The backstop would be activated only in periods of acute congestion problems and could help prevent the last resort measure, which is cutting off electricity to users. ‘Upgrading the electricity network remains essential, but in practice it will take years. So there is a need for short-term solutions that can be integrated into long-term planning. We, the members of the TU Delft PowerWeb Institute, call on the government, network operators and regulator to explore the flexible backstop as an additional grid security measure,’ they said. The entire Paper can be read here . Kenneth Brunninx Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Governance and Management, where he uses quantitative models to evaluate energy policy and market design with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions. Simon Tindemans is Associate Professor in the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids group at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. His research interests include uncertainty and risk management for power grids. TU Delft PowerWeb Institute is a community of researchers who are investigating how to make renewable energy systems reliable, future proof and accessible to everyone.

TU Delft and Urenco invest together in nuclear talent

Uranium enricher Urenco and TU Delft are teaming up to develop new generations of nuclear scientists. Urenco is supporting the Delft Excellent Laboratory Facilities for Innovation and Nuclear Education (DELFINE) programme for three years to increase the pool of nuclear talent who can work to find solutions to the challenges society faces.

Empowering professionals – vital for the longevity of any organisation

Empowering professionals – vital for the longevity of any organisation “Employers need to recognise that allowing employees to develop themselves is essential to business success, and space must be made for that,” says Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director of TU Delft’s Extension School for Continuing Education. In a recent Topic Talks interview on New Business Radio , van Valkenburg highlighted the need for a robust learning culture within organisations to keep pace with an evolving job market and rapid technological advancements. Barriers to continous development Reflecting on the learning culture in the Netherlands, as an example, van Valkenburg pointed out an often-overlooked barrier: although resources for professional development exist, business needs frequently take precedence, sidelining employee growth. “Employers must actively create environments that encourage continuous learning and foster dialogue about upskilling and growth opportunities. This is especially crucial for companies struggling with unfilled vacancies. When staffing is low, the demand on existing employees intensifies, making it harder to prioritise time for learning.” Recognising these challenges, TU Delft has developed short-duration online courses to help professionals fit learning around their work responsibilities. The importance of up-to-date skills is clear: businesses need to adopt new technologies to remain competitive, yet they often face skills gaps that traditional training does not cover. Van Valkenburg shared an example of a professional who, after completing TU Delft’s AI in Manufacturing course, applied their learning to increase production by 50%. To address the need for specialised knowledge, TU Delft’s approach goes beyond standard coursework, fostering innovation through collaborative learning communities. “Our learning communities bring together researchers, professionals, and policymakers to collaboratively address real-world problems. This structure enables participants to learn while actively solving practical challenges,” explained van Valkenburg. Throughout the conversation, van Valkenburg emphasised the value of aligning academic expertise with industry needs. By integrating TU Delft’s research into their courses, participants have access to the latest advancements, keeping them at the forefront of their fields. “Our courses, accessible in English and designed for a global audience, allow professionals from diverse sectors to stay ahead of technological shifts,” he said. Tangible impact In addition to cutting-edge content, the Extension School maintains a learner-centred approach. Feedback is integral, helping TU Delft ensure its courses remain relevant and impactful. “What moves me the most are people in developing countries who say, ‘I took a course on solar energy. With the knowledge I gained, I wrote a project plan to install solar panels in our village. Now, we have more electricity and can develop ourselves further.'" Building lifelong learning at all levels is essential to creating a resilient workforce and a sustainable future. TU Delft’s Extension School is committed to keeping these conversations alive, empowering professionals worldwide to drive meaningful change. For those interested in hearing the full interview in Dutch, please click the link. Luister hier Support Willem van Valkenburg and our work by giving us a shout-out on LinkedIn linkedin

Large meltwater accumulation revealed inside Greenland Ice Sheet

A new study published in Nature unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during summer months. For the first time, an international group of researchers was able to quantify meltwater with positioning data. The finding challenges current models of how ice sheets contribute to global sea level rise.

TU Delft and Urenco invest together in nuclear talent

Uranium enricher Urenco and TU Delft are teaming up to develop new generations of nuclear scientists. Urenco is supporting the Delft Excellent Laboratory Facilities for Innovation and Nuclear Education (DELFINE) programme for three years to increase the pool of nuclear talent who can work to find solutions to the challenges society faces.