Marieke Korthals (26) envisages a mobile optician truck driving through India with a 3D printer that allows the opticians to make trendy glasses on the spot for poor people.
God created the heavens and earth; The Dutch created The Netherlands.
‘Electron Cryo-Tomography of Vitreous Cryo-Sections: Towards Imaging Biological Nanomachines in a Cellular Environment’, PhD-thesis by Jason Pierson.
Philips Award
Clinical Graphics, the start-up company of TU student Peter Krekel, was awarded the Philips Innovation Award last Tuesday.
The first garden office is planned to be raised in
Amsterdam this summer. In stackable breeding areas, fruit, vegetables and herbs will be grown using LED light instead of daylight, the Parool newspaper
reported last week.
Name: Matthijs Pronk (26)
Nationality: Dutch
Supervisor: Professor Jan van Neerven; co-supervisor: Dr Mark Veraar (both of the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty)
Subject: Malliavin calculus in UMD Banach Spaces
Thesis defense: In two years
“My research is about stochastic analysis.
He took the photo himself, Dr Jason Pierson notes, after his appeal to Old Amsterdam for high-res pictures was rebuffed. It seemed entirely fitting to use Old Amsterdam cheese on the cover, since much of Pierson’s PhD research had been conducted at the NKI (Netherlands Cancer Institute) in the Dutch capital.
Students designing a floating, energy-producing home for the Solar Decathlon competition have opened their design studio in the Science Centre’s bare basement.
Balloons
Researchers from the Climate City Campus have made air quality visible. On Wednesday 27 April, students roamed around the city of Delft with luminous helium balloons attached to their bicycles.
A foldable smartphone as thin as a piece of paper. The presentation of the PaperPhone prototype revealed what the future of cell phones and tablets could be.
Standardisation is not boring at all, says Tineke Egyedi, Delft researcher (TPM) and president of the European Academy for Standardisation, who organised a mini-symposium in Delft last month.
