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While TU Delft drops eight places to number 56, it is again the highest ranking university in the Netherlands on the Times Higher Education Ranking. Just as last year, Utrecht University did not give any information.
“The answers are probably mostly both,” warns Ibo van de Poel before Delta presents him with ten dilemma’s. Read and judge for yourself: what makes the winner of the Professor of Excellence Award 2024 a real Professor of Excellence?
As of this academic year, all Doctoral Committee members will have to wear a gown during the doctoral ceremony in which a doctoral candidate defends their dissertation. Before this, only professors could do so. TU Delft is the only university in the Netherlands to make this ceremonial dress mandatory.
Five TU Delft researchers have received a European Starting Grant of one and a half million euros. A total of fifty-one academics at Dutch universities and research institutes were awarded grants.
Using a sophisticated combination of two optical research techniques, scientists can now examine thousands of DNA variations simultaneously. This means a huge acceleration in genetic and biological research.
Universities do not really know what their patents are worth, a Groningen emeritus argued in the FD. TU Delft is a leader in patents, but what is the value?
He is probably the oldest PhD student at TU Delft ever. Hans van Duivendijk was 89 when he defended his PhD thesis on the ongoing battle against water on 17 June. As an engineer, he was able to use simple means to build complex water management systems in countries such as Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria.
The supreme court’s judgement last week that the subsidy that TU Delft received in 2017 for geothermal research was rightly reclaimed. The subsidy amounts to hundreds of thousands of euros.
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