Ants that work together, birds that fly in V-formations and schools of fish that swim as one raving entity. These are inspiring phenomena for quite a few Delft mathematicians and control system engineers.
University education teaches students to answer known questions while it should teach students the excitement of immersion into the unknown, which is called science.
Name: Shizhuo Liu (28)Nationality: ChineseSupervisor: Professor Ramon Hanssen (faculty of Aerospace Engineering)Subject: Research on earth deformation using radar from satellitesThesis defense: In one year and two months“It took me several months as an MSc student to start understanding how synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Insar) works.
“I’m glad it caught your eye”, says Dr. Adrien Moreau over the telephone, “because that’s what graphic design should do.” Moreau, who received his PhD from the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, hired freelance designer Marylène Labeille for the cover.
When ESA’s Goce satellite suddenly stopped transmitting data to Earth, Delft researchers held their breath.
Even before the European Space Agency (ESA) announced there was a problem with the Goce earth observation satellite, Dr.
Germany’s coalition government has decided to extend the life span of the country’s nuclear power plants. Should the Netherlands follow suit?
Some twenty years after the introduction of endoscopic surgery, a European keyhole surgery training programme is finally being set up. Dr. Sonja Buzink (Industrial Design) will lead the project.
Every autumn the Dutch railway system is plagued by leaves that make the tracks slippery. In extreme cases this can cause the trains to stop running. For his PhD thesis, Oscar
Arias-Cuevas researched four ways to prevent this annual annoyance.
Increasing rainfall levels will force most Dutch riverside cities to augment their flood defences. Why not improve the urban quality at the same time, asks PhD student Bianca Stalenberg.
