Art historian Timo de Rijk was appointed Professor of Design, Culture and Society in Delft and Leiden last September. He calls this combination ‘a real breakthrough’.
In the Biotechnology building overlooking the neighbouring botanical gardens, a large robot is carrying out 96 experiments at once. Known as robotic liquid handling station, the robot is part of the High-Throughput Lab.
Kshitij Parashar, 24, moved here in 2012 from Vadodara, India. “I came to TU Delft with an interest in the huge maritime industry located in and around Port of Rotterdam,” he says.
With a halo of palm trees behind her as she Skyped in from California into this year’s DEWIS symposium, Ilse Oosterlaken looked pleasantly surprised to hear that she’d won the 2013 DEWIS award, narrowly winning over three other nominees, Laura Anitori, Elham Ashoori and Femke van Wageningen-Kessels.
Delft researchers followed the trajectories of two drifting icebergs through the Indian Ocean by listening to the underwater sounds of cracking and colliding ice.
The fourth Delft Climate Institute symposium (October 17 2013) focused on ice sheets. Not only do these erode as a consequence of climate change, they influence climate as well. That exchange has now been quantified.
Since its inception in 1991, the B.Sc. in Applied Earth Sciences (AES) at TU Delft has been taught in Dutch. As of 2014, the language of instruction will change to
English.
Uitgever John Brockman vroeg zijn achterban naar hun favoriete verklaring van complexe zaken en kreeg maar liefst 156 stukken binnen van gemiddeld drie pagina’s lang.
“Goedemiddag, met Jorien van het ANP. Ik schrijf een stuk over de Nobelprijs van de scheikunde. Kun jij me daar meer over vertellen?” Kijk, dat hoor ik graag.
