TU Delft researchers are using gift cards to measure rainfall. Their odd sensors must eventually provide insights into hydrology in Africa and on the TU Delft campus.
With his Veni grant, dr. Willem van Dorp intends to push Ebid technology to the ultimate limit: writing atomic structures with an electron beam. But he won’t be doing it in Delft.
More than forty percent of Muslim terrorists have an engineering degree, say two sociologists. Are engineers indeed the best terrorists, as the Dutch newspaper De Pers heralds?
Predicting earthquakes was long thought to be impossible. But thanks to a new TU Delft algorithm, this is no longer so far fetched. For geophysicists it’s a dream come true.
Name: Peter Buist (36)
Nationality: Dutch
PhD supervisor: Professor Peter Teunissen (Aerospace Engineering)
Subject: Relative positioning and attitude determination for formation flying
Thesis defence: One year to go
“Last year we let the faculty airplane fly circles above the buildings of TU Delft.
A first group of cancer patients in Utrecht will be injected this week with radioactive microparticles that have been irradiated in Delft. This is a first step towards a promising new form of radiotherapy.
Waste plastic from ‘throwaway’ carrier bags can be readily converted into carbon nanotubes, the New Scientist reports in last week’s issue.
The newly appointed assistant professor, Elif Genceli-Güner, developed a technique that separates salts from liquids by freezing the mixtures. It can potentially save huge amounts of energy and water.
