Length: 1.97 cm
Weight: 96 kg
Birth Year: 1994
Faculty: Aerospace Engineering
Team: Paal Centraal 2
Other sports: gliding
Why korfball?”I hadn’t done any physical sport for a couple of years so when this academic year began, I decided to start again.
The Dutch government has been ordered to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020 in a landmark case decided in the district court of The Hague on June 24, 2015.
Water hyacinth is a serious pest. A free-floating plant with lavender flowers, this weed is choking tropical fresh waters, suffocating lakes, blocking shipping and hurting local economies. So why not turn it into animal food suggests civil engineer Viktor Valk.
TU Delft has launched an Ocean Energy Platform in response to increasing interest in the sea as a source of energy – whether wave, algal, tidal or thermal.
Internationalisation should be the by-product, and not the goal of an excellent university according to new Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (BK). Peter Russell, a Canadian national, is currently the only non-Dutch dean at TU Delft.
So, you moved to the Netherlands and worked hard to earn your degree. Now what? Many international students return to their home countries after graduation, but that is not necessarily by choice.
In a giant step towards improving sustainability in its university buildings, this summer TU Delft is placing 10,000 m2 solar panels on rooftops all around campus – enough to generate one million kilowatt hours per year.
International PhD candidates and other knowledge workers often have trouble finding suitable housing in Delft. Now a group of three buildings will be built in the railway redevelopment area Spoorzone especially for them.
Being a student isn’t always the carefree life it’s made out to be. Leaving home and, in some cases, moving abroad, is stressful. TU Delft has a new psychologist to help international students – confidentially and free of charge.
