Sewage water is regarded as waste, but according to professor Jules van Lier it should be viewed as a valuable source of energy and fertilizers.
Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to the Delcraftworks’ flying saucer?
Cars are becoming increasingly stuffed full of sensors, electronics and software that mainly function independently and sometimes contradictorily. Newly appointed professor Edward Holweg pleads for an integrated approach.
Office buildings are left vacant, while new offices are being built and housing is desperately needed. What is holding back the transformation of offices into homes? Architect Hilde Remøy set out to find out.
Offering unprecedented possibilities, ‘ghost neutrons’ from Sweden will soon allow us to plumb the depths of biological materials right down to molecular levels.
The US company Invisage has developed a new technique for making image sensors much more efficient, New Scientist reports in this week’s issue.
Name: Han Keijzers (29)
Nationality: Dutch
Supervisor: Professor Leo Kouwenhoven (Faculty of Applied Sciences)
Subject: Study of quantum phenomena in nano-mechanical systems
Thesis defense: In about eighteen months
“If you make a picture of a guitar string, you will know two things: first, the picture will show the exact shape of the string; and second, you will know the exact time the picture was taken.
Black boxes, checklists, admitting human errors and better communication: PhD student Linda Wauben wants operating theatres to function a lot more like airplane cockpits.
Discussions about the CCS project at Barendrecht were revived after a television documentary last Sunday revealed that a critical geological report was withheld by the government.
