Research News

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant worth up to 250,000 euros to twelve highly promising young scientists from TU Delft.

Leiden-Delft-Erasmus, the strategic alliance of the three universities in the province of South Holland (Zuid Holland), are to build further on their successful cooperation. In the coming years, four social themes will guide their joint research and education: Healthy Society, Sustainable Society, Digital Society and Inclusive Society. Topics of concern to the metropolitan area around Rotterdam and The Hague will serve as a source of inspiration.

Researchers at TU Delft have developed highly programmable actuators that, similar to the human hand, combine soft and hard materials to perform complex movements.

The TU Delft Solar Boat Team became world champion in open-sea solar boat racing during the Solar & Energy Boat Challenge 2019.

Dutch ministries, knowledge institutions and building sector organisations jointly signed a collaboration agreement for the Building and Technology Innovation Centre (BTIC) that combines knowledge and innovation strengths for the entire building sector.

On Thursday 4 July, Jenny Dankelman, Professor of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Intervention Techniques at the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), was informed by Delft University Fund that she will receive the prestigious Professor of Excellence Award 2019.

All students from the 3mE faculty have had the opportunity to vote for the best lecturer of the academic year 2018-2019. This award enables them to pay tribute to lecturers and show their appreciation for the unique and creative way in which they teach their classes.

All parties involved in digital innovations within the public sector will from now on work together within one platform: Digicampus. The new partnership for the development of innovative government services was officially launched on Wednesday by state secretary Knops (interior affairs) during the iBestuurscongres.

A research team from the Department of Cognitive Robotics (CoR) has achieved a milestone in the area of autonomous driving in an urban environment.

The team ‘The Zero Heroes’ of TU Delft has won the finals of the Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition.

Research by the Haptics Lab into symbiotic driving will be shown on Dutch television in prime time. David Abbink was interviewed by Vivianne Bendermacher to explain and demonstrate the current issues with driver-automation interaction, and how our research contributes to solving these.