Bowen Fan missed several weeks of lab work last year due to the lockdown. And that while the end of his PhD was in sight. How is he doing now?
Postdoc Michal Shemesh had just moved from the Netherlands to Israel last year when the corona crisis broke out. How is she doing now?
New TU Delft guidelines should help academics who want to cooperate with China. Rector Tim van der Hagen calls cooperation with China a ‘wicked problem’.
Scientists are judged too much on their publications and too little on their contributions to education and valorisation, asserts a research committee led by Ena Voûte.
The KNAW held an online debate on the harassment of scientists and academics. “When pictures of your children are posted online, it comes very close to home.”
Like any research field, physics can fall prey to confirmation bias, as the Delft Majorana case shows. Delta asked two psychologists, experts in the field, what can be done.
31 newly minted PhDs have been awarded a Rubicon grant by the Dutch Research Council NWO to gain international experience in their field. Three of them are from TU Delft.
After five years of research, Swiss scientists and TU Delft’s Lukas van den Heuvel are the first to describe the brain circuits recruited to attenuate old fear memories.
Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences worried about the erosion of academic freedom would do well to end their association with China’s Confucius Institutes.
