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Effectiveness of 2G and 3G has declined

At the request of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, researchers from TU Delft, UMC Utrecht and Populytics investigated the extent to which the various types of COVID certificates (coronatoegangsbewijs, CTB) can help to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in society. The 3G (vaccinated, recovered, tested) and 2G (vaccinated, recovered) rules are currently a lot less effective in curbing the spread of the virus than they were two months ago. A 1G policy (only people who have recently tested negative are given access) is much more effective. But, even if a 1G policy were to be introduced today, the reproduction number would not drop below 1.0.

SpaceX launches TU Delft mini-satellite: will it survive in space?

During the Transporter-3 satellite launch by SpaceX on 13 January from Cape Canaveral a small satellite from Delft will also travel into space. The DelfiPQ is one of the smallest satellites in the world.

Keynote on Open government data and open data ecosystems by Anneke Zuiderwijk

On December 21, 2021, Anneke Zuiderwijk was invited to provide a keynote presentation for a Webinar of the Graphic Era University, India. The presentation was entitled “Open Government Data – Towards value creating and sustainable open data ecosystems”.

TU Delft creates one of the world’s most precise microchip sensors – thanks to a spiderweb

A team of researchers from TU Delft managed to design one of the world’s most precise microchip sensors; the device can function at room temperature – a ‘holy grail’ for quantum technologies and sensing.

New platform opens quantum networking to everyone

Starting today, everyone can freely access Quantum Network Explorer (QNE) to experiment with quantum networks. QNE is developed by QuTech—a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and TNO—and specifically aimed at researchers, students, software developers and future users of quantum network applications.

Dr. Ir. O.K. (Olivier) Rikken, MBA

Olivier Rikken is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft.

P. (Prachi) Bagave MSc

Prachi Bagave is a PhD researcher in the ICT group at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of TU Delft. Her area of interest mainly includes data analysis of smart embedded systems, and diving deep into their ML algorithms.

Joseph Sta. Maria

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Systems & Control (3mE)

Due to the use of solar panels, consumers are increasingly becoming producers of electricity. To connect the thus formed micro-grids to the general electricity system, control systems are used to guarantee and increase the stability and resilience of the distributed system.