As the economy picks up and metal prices continue to rise, plans and projects to extract precious ores from the deep sea are regaining strength. The Dutch offshore and shipping industries are in good starting position.

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.

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.