Unesco The Floating City has gone to Paris. Last December, Rutger de Graaf and Bart van Bueren won the NCRV climate show with their presentation of the ‘floating city’.
Now they presented their ideas at the Unesco conference, ‘The year of the earth’, which was held last week in Paris. During the conference, the dynamic TU Delft duo presented their ideas about a floating city during the question and answer session and with power-point presentations and by handing out flyers to conference delegates.
Greenchoice
‘All-green’ energy supplier Greenchoice signed a contract to become the main sponsor of ‘Greenchoice Forze’, which is a racing car powered by energy derived from hydrogen. The vehicle is being designed and built by Formula Zero Team Delft. Speaking at the sponsorship signing ceremony, Rector Magnificus Jacob Fokkema described sustainability as one of his university’s key priorities: “TU Delft is working for a sustainable future.” The Greenchoice Forze team will race for the first time in August, at the Formula Zero Student Edition event in Rotterdam, a competition that pits university teams from the US, the UK, Spain and other countries against each other. The Greenchoice Forze hydrogen-powered car delivers an impressive performance, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in less than six seconds and reaching maximum speeds in excess of 120 km/h. The aim is to show the general public that sustainable energy can compete directly with traditional, polluting technologies, without sacrificing performance.
Mozambique
The president of Mozambique, Armando Emilio Guebuza, will give a lecture at TU Delft on Wednesday, February 27. This lecture is entitled, ‘Mozambique and ICT: In search of innovative solutions for sustainable development’. He will discuss the importance of technological research for the development of Mozambique. The lecture will be held in the Aula.
ERC grants
TU Delft’s Dr Fulvio Scarano and Professor Lieven Vandersypen will each receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their proposals, together with those of about 300 other researchers, were selected from over 9,000 applications. The ERC Starting Grant is a subsidy that is awarded for a period of five years to scientists who lead an independent team or program and who have the potential to develop into world-class researchers. Dr Fulvio Scarano, attached to TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering since 2000, is to receive a 1.5 million euro subsidy for his research into ‘Aeroacoustics via Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry’,
TU Delft quantum physicist Professor Lieven Vandersypen has also been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.3 million euro. He will focus on demonstrating and understanding the quantum mechanics entanglement of electron spins which are enclosed in so-called quantum dots (artificial atoms). In addition to a deeper understanding of fundamental physics, this research could lead to significantly improved calculation techniques in the long term.
Free book
TU Delft students can pick up a free copy of the book ‘You can’t just blame the crocodile: Delft Engineers travel into sustainability’, an account of a year in which TU Delft focused on the role of the engineer in sustainable development, particularly in Africa. The book, published on January 11, marks the end of TU Delft’s 165th anniversary year. Free copies of the book are available to students until February 24 at the TU Shop.
Bionanoscience
A new Bionanoscience department will be created at TU Delft. Bionanoscience concerns research at the point where biology and nanotechnology meet and is as yet largely unexplored. It is expected to become one of the key scientific fields of the 21st century. Over the next decade, TU Delft will invest 10 million euro in the new Bionanoscience department, which will form part of the university’s successful Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. The molecular building blocks of living cells are the focus of bionanoscience. The nanotechnology toolkit enables the precise depiction, study and control of biological molecules. This creates new insights into the fundamental workings of living cells. Investment in biologically oriented fundamental research is of great strategic importance to TU Delft. This research field is new and the research into individual cells is at the cutting edge of science and technology. The Faculty of Applied Sciences’ Bionanoscience department will explore the full spectrum, from nanoscience to cell biology and synthetic biology, and as such will complement the activities of the existing Nanoscience and Biotechnology departments.
Unesco
The Floating City has gone to Paris. Last December, Rutger de Graaf and Bart van Bueren won the NCRV climate show with their presentation of the ‘floating city’. Now they presented their ideas at the Unesco conference, ‘The year of the earth’, which was held last week in Paris. During the conference, the dynamic TU Delft duo presented their ideas about a floating city during the question and answer session and with power-point presentations and by handing out flyers to conference delegates.
Greenchoice
‘All-green’ energy supplier Greenchoice signed a contract to become the main sponsor of ‘Greenchoice Forze’, which is a racing car powered by energy derived from hydrogen. The vehicle is being designed and built by Formula Zero Team Delft. Speaking at the sponsorship signing ceremony, Rector Magnificus Jacob Fokkema described sustainability as one of his university’s key priorities: “TU Delft is working for a sustainable future.” The Greenchoice Forze team will race for the first time in August, at the Formula Zero Student Edition event in Rotterdam, a competition that pits university teams from the US, the UK, Spain and other countries against each other. The Greenchoice Forze hydrogen-powered car delivers an impressive performance, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in less than six seconds and reaching maximum speeds in excess of 120 km/h. The aim is to show the general public that sustainable energy can compete directly with traditional, polluting technologies, without sacrificing performance.
Mozambique
The president of Mozambique, Armando Emilio Guebuza, will give a lecture at TU Delft on Wednesday, February 27. This lecture is entitled, ‘Mozambique and ICT: In search of innovative solutions for sustainable development’. He will discuss the importance of technological research for the development of Mozambique. The lecture will be held in the Aula.
ERC grants
TU Delft’s Dr Fulvio Scarano and Professor Lieven Vandersypen will each receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their proposals, together with those of about 300 other researchers, were selected from over 9,000 applications. The ERC Starting Grant is a subsidy that is awarded for a period of five years to scientists who lead an independent team or program and who have the potential to develop into world-class researchers. Dr Fulvio Scarano, attached to TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering since 2000, is to receive a 1.5 million euro subsidy for his research into ‘Aeroacoustics via Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry’,
TU Delft quantum physicist Professor Lieven Vandersypen has also been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.3 million euro. He will focus on demonstrating and understanding the quantum mechanics entanglement of electron spins which are enclosed in so-called quantum dots (artificial atoms). In addition to a deeper understanding of fundamental physics, this research could lead to significantly improved calculation techniques in the long term.
Free book
TU Delft students can pick up a free copy of the book ‘You can’t just blame the crocodile: Delft Engineers travel into sustainability’, an account of a year in which TU Delft focused on the role of the engineer in sustainable development, particularly in Africa. The book, published on January 11, marks the end of TU Delft’s 165th anniversary year. Free copies of the book are available to students until February 24 at the TU Shop.
Bionanoscience
A new Bionanoscience department will be created at TU Delft. Bionanoscience concerns research at the point where biology and nanotechnology meet and is as yet largely unexplored. It is expected to become one of the key scientific fields of the 21st century. Over the next decade, TU Delft will invest 10 million euro in the new Bionanoscience department, which will form part of the university’s successful Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. The molecular building blocks of living cells are the focus of bionanoscience. The nanotechnology toolkit enables the precise depiction, study and control of biological molecules. This creates new insights into the fundamental workings of living cells. Investment in biologically oriented fundamental research is of great strategic importance to TU Delft. This research field is new and the research into individual cells is at the cutting edge of science and technology. The Faculty of Applied Sciences’ Bionanoscience department will explore the full spectrum, from nanoscience to cell biology and synthetic biology, and as such will complement the activities of the existing Nanoscience and Biotechnology departments.
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