The EU awarded almost 400 starting grants worth about EUR 1.5 million this week. Four went to TU Delft, and in total 44 to researchers in the Netherlands.
Becoming an entrepreneur was never her plan, but after an internship in Kenya, alumna Dieuwertje Drexhage decided to start a company to develop an affordable breathing aid.
Plastics, electronics, and metals – waste from hospitals has many faces but the processing is mostly the same: incineration. Two researchers are trying to turn this tide.
Travelling committee members and hundreds of printed and shipped dissertations. Can’t the doctoral defence ceremony be more sustainable, wonders PhD student Jonna Bouwknegt.
If you research corona you run the risk of becoming a political football. This was the experience of two people at TPM. Their research led a life of its own.
After the umpteenth aggressive email, virologist Marion Koopmans has turned to the Public Prosecution Service for help. She has received a lot of support, and more hate mail.
Jorik Grolle’s thesis on fast European train connections won prizes at a transport planners conference. European high-speed rail travel could be much better, he argues.
From murder and violence to stalking and intimidation: last year, the human rights organisation Scholars at Risk logged 332 attacks on academic freedom in 65 countries.
A petition against Frans Timmermans receiving an honorary doctorate has been signed more than 3,300 times. Who and what lies behind this and what is TU Delft doing about it?
