Name: Ricardo De Vasconcelos Abreu Lopes (29)
Nationality: Portuguese
Supervisor: Dr Rafael Bidarra (computer graphics group, EEMCS faculty)
Subject: Adaptive game worlds
Thesis defence: In two years
“The goal of my research is to make video games more exiting and appealing.
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TU Delft start-ups have done very well in the latest allotment of STW-valorisation grants – the American-based subsidy scheme intended to get knowledge off the shelves and into business. Ten of the 21 grants went to TU-spinoffs.
Twinkling tile
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Birds and insects are not the only ones migrating – genes do too. Wouter Meuleman showed how genes are turned on or off upon relocalisation in the cell nucleus.
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The Dutch Physics Society NNV organises a symposium on energy storage in the TU Auditorium on Thursday 12 January 2012.
As the share of sustainable and variable energy sources grows, so does the need for storage technologies to form a buffer in between the variable offer and demand.
Rotterdam, 14 November 2011 – One wants hundreds of thousands of tourists to make environmentally friendly trips into space, while the other develops a new environmentally friendly public transport system involving an extremely rapid electric bus that drops all passengers off at their doorsteps.
