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Academic Staff Professor ( Chair ) Prof.dr. Peter Palensky LB 03.230 +31 (0)15 27 88341 P.Palensky@tudelft.nl Professor Prof.dr.ir. Han La Poutre LB 03.250 +31 (0)15 27 84178 J.A.LaPoutre@tudelft.nl Professor Prof. Dr. Ir. Marjan Popov LB 03.200 +31 (0)15 27 86219 M.Popov@tudelft.nl Associate Professor Dr.ir. Jose Rueda Torres LB 03.180 +31 (0)15 27 86239 J.L.RuedaTorres@tudelft.nl Associate Professor Dr.ir. Milos Cvetkovic LB 03.190 +31 (0)15 27 87935 M.Cvetkovic@tudelft.nl Associate Professor Dr. Simon Tindemans LB 03.190 +31 (0)15 27 84487 S.H.Tindemans@tudelft.nl Associate Professor Dr. Alex Stefanov LB 03.180 +31 (0)15 27 81528 A.I.Stefanov@tudelft.nl Assistant Professor Dr. Aleksandra Lekic LB 03.210 +31 (0)15 27 82461 A.Lekic@tudelft.nl Assistant Professor Dr. Pedro P. Vergara LB 03.210 +31 (0)15 27 85478 P.P.VergaraBarrios@tudelft.nl Assistant Professor Dr. Jochen Cremer LB 03.180 +31 (0)15 27 86339 J.L.Cremer@tudelft.nl Guest Academic Staff Professor Prof.ir. Mart van der Meijden LB 03.250 +31 (0)15 27 88841 M.A.M.M. vanderMeijden@tudelft.nl Supporting Staff Manager ESP Lab Sandra Dordevic LB 01.850 +31 (0)15 27 83279 A.Dordevic@tudelft.nl Interim Department Manager Marc Magrijn LB 03.380 +31 (0)15 27 82011 m.c.magrijn@tudelft.nl Management Assistant Carla Jager LB 03.240 +31 (0)15 27 81778 C.P.Jager@tudelft.nl Management Assistant Brenda Reyes Munoz LB 03.610 +31 (0)15 27 85443 B.ReyesMunoz@tudelft.nl Technician Ing. Remko Koornneef LB 03.240 +31 (0)15 27 88610 R.N.Koornneef@tudelft.nl ICT and SoftwareTechnician Simona Renzaglia LB 01.845 +31 (0)15 27 89497 S.Renzaglia@tudelft.nl Post-Docs and Researchers Aihui Fu LB 03.170 +31 (0)15 27 88843 A.Fu@tudelft.nl Dr. Monika Sharma +31 (0)15 27 87907 M.Sharma-3@tudelft.nl Dr. Amirreza Silani +31 (0)15 27 89376 A.Silani@tudelft.nl Dr. Na Li +31 (0)15 27 86053 N.Li-2@tudelft.nl Dr. Reza Bakhshi Jafarabadi LB 02.390 +31 (0)15 27 87525 Reza.Bakhshi@tudelft.nl Dr. Farzad Dehghan Marvasti LB 02.390 +31 (0)15 27 86625 F.DehghanMarvasti@tudelft.nl Dr. Vaibhav Nougain +31 (0)15 27 87749 V.Nougain@tudelft.nl Dr. Jochen B. Stiasny LB 02.830 +31 (0) 15 27 84688 J.B.Stiasny@tudelft.nl Ties van der Heijden 23.HG 4.92.2 T.J.T.vanderHeijden-2@tudelft.nl Dwijasish Das +31 (0)15 27 87254 D.Das-1@tudelft.nl Chunjun Huang LB02.830 +31 (0) 15 27 81759 c.j.huang@tudelft.nl Azadeh Kermansaravi LB02.810 +31 (0) 15 27 81202 z.kermansaravi@tudelft.nl Debottam Mukherjee LB02.810 +31 (0) 15 27 81259 d.mukherjee@tudelft.nl Nakul Narayanan LB02.900 +31 (0) 15 27 81763 k.narayanankuruveettil@tudelft.nl Sunny Singh LB 02.900 +31 (0)15 27 81132 s.singh-6@tudelft.nl Leake Weldemariam LB 02.900 +31 (0)15 27 81145 l.e.weldemariam@tudelft.nl Jort Groen LB 01.380 +31 (0)15 27 82184 j.a.groen@tudelft.nl PhD Students Wouter Zomerdijk LB 03.030 +31 (0)15 27 84160 W.Zomerdijk@tudelft.nl Ensieh Sharifnia LB 03.160 +31 (0)15 27 86614 E.Sharifnia@tudelft.nl Zeynab Kaseb LB 02.390 +31 (0)15 27 89971 Z.Kaseb@tudelft.nl Ali Rajaei LB 03.160 +31 (0)15 27 89334 A.Rajaei@tudelft.nl Haiwei Xie +31 (0)15 27 88492 H.Xie-2@tudelft.nl Ajay Shetgaonkar LB 03.160 +31 (0)15 27 85519 A.D.Shetgaonkar@tudelft.nl Nanda Kishor Panda +31 (0)15 27 87669 N.K.Panda@tudelft.nl Alfan Presekal +31 (0)15 27 88851 A.Presekal@tudelft.nl Neda Vahabzad +31 (0)15 27 83227 N.Vahabzad@tudelft.nl Behzad Behdani +31 (0)15 27 87243 B.Behdani-1@tudelft.nl Farzad Nasirpour LB 03.030 +31 (0)15 27 89669 F.Nasirpour@tudelft.nl Kutay Bölat LB 01.830 +31 (0)15 27 85483 K.Bolat@tudelft.nl Ioannis Semertzis LB 01.820 +31 (0)15 27 86138 I.Semertzis@tudelft.nl Lucas Narbondo L.Narbondo@tudelft.nl Mert Karacelebi +31 (0)15 27 83620 M.Karacelebi@tudelft.nl Vetrivel S. Rajkumar LB 01.830 +31 (0)15 27 88855 V.SubramaniamRajkumar@tudelft.nl Demetris Chrysostomou +31 (0)15 27 87581 D.Chrysostomou@tudelft.nl Christian Doh Dinga +31 (0)15 27 87246 C.DohDinga@tudelft.nl Amir Heidary +31 (0)15 27 88349 A.Heidary@tudelft.nl Olayiwola Arowolo +31 (0)15 27 83043 O.A.Arowolo@tudelft.nl Nan Lin LB 02.670 +31 (0)15 27 85841 N.Lin@tudelft.nl Weijie Xia +31 (0)15 27 86694 W.Xia@tudelft.nl Nicola Cibin +31 (0)15 27 83434 N.Cibin@tudelft.nl Himanshu Goyel +31 (0)15 27 85675 H.Goyel@tudelft.nl Benjamin Habib LB 02.820 +31 (0)15 27 84285 B.Habib@tudelft.nl Rohan Kamat Tarcar +31 (0)15 27 85775 R.KamatTarcar@tudelft.nl Stavros Orfanoudakis +31 (0)15 27 89318 S.Orfanoudakis@tudelft.nl Shaohong Shi +31 (0)15 27 88205 S.Shi-1@tudelft.nl Maria Camila Castrillon Franco LB02.830 +31 (0) 15 27 81728 m.c.castrillonfranco@tudelft.nl May Myat Thwe LB01.820 +31 (0)15 27 85577 m.myatthwe@tudelft.nl Steven Tan LB 01.820 +31 (0)15 27 87431 x.tan@tudelft.nl Jonathan Aviles Cedeño LB02.830 +31 (0) 15 27 87540 j.a.avilescedeno@tudelft.nl Mohamed Radwan LB01.820 +31 (0) 15 27 84984 m.m.a.radwan@tudelft.nl Jan Ot Piña Urgell LB02.380 +31 (0) 15 27 81489 j.o.pinaurgell@tudelft.nl T. Badzlin Hashfi LB01.820 +31 (0) 15 27 81721 t.b.hashfi@tudelft.nl Saif Alsarayreh LB02.380 +31 (0) 15 27 81380 s.t.s.alsarayreh@tudelft.nl Ruiqi Zhang LB 03.170 +31 (0)15 27 81843 r.zhang-3@tudelft.nl Rahul Rane LB 02.900 +31 (0)15 27 81692 r.m.rane@tudelft.nl Habtemariam A. Kefale LB 02.900 +31 (0)15 27 81071 h.a.kefale@tudelft.nl Betül Mamudi LB 02.820 +31 (0)15 27 81628 b.mamudi @tudelft.nl Fernando Canales LB 01.380 +31 (0)15 27 81048 f.i.canalesverdial@tudelft.nl Despoina Georgiadi LB 01.390 +31 (0)15 27 81614 d.georgiadi@tudelft.nl Shafiulla Syed LB 01.820 +31 (0)15 27 81473 s.syed@tudelft.nl Guest PhD Students Shengren Hou LB 03.170 +31 (0)15 27 86876 H.Hou-1@tudelft.nl Shuyi Gao +31 (0)15 27 87895 S.Gao@tudelft.nl Dong Liu +31 (0)15 27 83557 D.Liu-7@tudelft.nl Hongjin Du +31 15 27 86770 H.Du@tudelft.nl Hazem Abdelghany HB 03.030 +31 15 27 88836 H.A.M.F.Abdelghany@tudelft.nl Nakisa Farrokhseresht LB 03.150 +31 (0)15 27 86236 N.Farrokhseresht@tudelft.nl Sjors Hijgenaar +31 (0)15 27 84011 S.Hijgenaar@tudelft.nl Tanumay Karmokar T.R.Karmokar@tudelft.nl Basel Morsy +31 (0)15 27 85011 B.Morsy@tudelft.nl Roland Saur +31 (0)15 27 88852 R.Saur@tudelft.nl Yigu Liu +31 (0)15 27 85864 Y.Liu-18@tudelft.nl Shen Yan +31 (0)15 27 85209 S.Yan-1@tudelft.nl Zhisheng Xiong +31 (0)15 27 85375 Z.Xiong@tudelft.nl Aleksandar Boricic LB 03.030 +31 (0)15 27 88007 A.Boricic@tudelft.nl Benoit Jeanson B.Jeanson@tudelft.nl Nidarshan Veera Kumar +31 (0)15 27 88859 N.K.VeeraKumar@tudelft.nl Runyao Yu Runyao.Yu@tudelft.nl Milan Jankovski LB 03.030 +31 (0)15 27 81127 m.jankovski@tudelft.nl Guest Post-Docs and Researchers Dr. Haixiao Li +31 (0)15 27 87211 H.Li-16@tudelft.nl Norberto Abrante Martinez +31 (0)15 27 86179 N.A.M.AbranteMartinez@tudelft.nl Chuyi Li C.Li-6@tudelft.nl Ole Mussmann Guest Researcher b.o.mussmann@tudelft.nl Dr. Nuran Cihangir Martin Guest Researcher n.cihangir@tudelft.nl

Between Public and Private

A study into the potential of public space and public buildings to act as natural extensions of private living environments within inner city block structures Student: Jakob Norén Title: Between Public and Private: A study into the potential of public space and public buildings to act as natural extensions of private living environments within inner city block structures Semester: 2023 Teachers: Klaske Havik, Jorge Mejia Hernandez, Pierre Jennen, Willemijn Wilms Floet The project takes its basis in a concern for the future liveability of European cities in regard to public space, public buildings, and public life, looking specifically at the capital city of Budapest in Hungary. Studying internal migration patterns within Hungary, it is clear that while the Budapest conglomerate region have grown in population over the last 30 years, there has been a negative net migration to the Budapest inner city. The urban population is choosing to a larger degree to move to village suburbs in the conglomerate region, mainly due to the access to nature and recreational space that these places offer, suggesting that the city is failing to supply an attractive alternative for the local living environment of the inner city. Though large efforts and funds are already dedicated to address this, my research and design questions the impact current developments in the city have on the perceived recreational value of the living environment within the local city block. The project investigates the core concept of “publicness” and the separation of public and private realms, aiming to challenge the ways public space and public buildings are configured and realized. The investigation resulted in a design for a multifunctional building and an urban green strategy which aims at addressing the “everyday” aspects of public space and public lives. The focus lies on ways in which public buildings to a larger degree can offer spaces for everyday activities rather than curated experiences and ways which these spaces can become appropriable for users to utilise as they please and in the ways they see fit. The specific mixite of functions and the configuration of program around loosely programmed “in-between” spaces has been crucial to achieve a degree of ambiguity in terms of use and purpose of space, something which becomes a driver for appropriability and the perception of public space as an extension of the private living sphere. More information can be found here .

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Tracing ancient settlements in Colombia with remote sensing

A team of the LDE alliance (Leiden University, TU Delft, and Erasmus University Rotterdam) asked whether it might be possible to search for signs of ancient settlements in the jungle with affordable remote sensing techniques. For an expedition in a Colombian dense forest, the team, including remote sensing expert Felix Dahle of TU Delft, joined forces with archaeologists and drone experts from Colombia. In mountainous forests, drones provide affordable access to areas that would otherwise be unreachable from the ground. A LiDAR laser scanner already proved its value in coastal observation . The big question was whether LiDAR could bypass the many treetops. Trees reflect the laser, so it was crucial to fly close so it found its way through the foliage. The team mounted a highly portable LiDAR laser scanner to a drone and went on expedition nearby ancient terraces of the Tairona culture in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. “We had to find the sweet spot. Close to the archaeological sites and still secure above the canopy”, says Felix Dahle. And it passed the test. The LiDAR laser scanner create a point cloud and a detailed 3D model of the landscape. “We were able to detect ancient terraces in the jungle. We discovered that we can scan through the forest when it is not too dense, but some areas remained unfathomable. We could also distinguish several types of vegetation, which might be of great use too to find undiscovered archaeological sites.”

TU Delft jointly wins in XPRIZE Rainforest competition in Brazil

TU Delft jointly wins in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition in the Amazon, Brazil Imagine using rapid and autonomous robot technology for research into the green and humid lungs of our planet; our global rainforests. Drones that autonomously deploy eDNA samplers and canopy rafts uncover the rich biodiversity of these complex ecosystems while revealing the effects of human activity on nature and climate change. On November 15, 2024, after five years of intensive research and competition, the ETHBiodivX team, which included TU Delft Aerospace researchers Salua Hamaza and Georg Strunck, achieved an outstanding milestone: winning the XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize for outstanding effort in co-developing inclusive technology for nature conservation. The goal: create automated technology and methods to gain near real-time insights about biodiversity – providing necessary data that can inform conservation action and policy, support sustainable bioeconomies, and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities who are the primary protectors and knowledge holders of the planet’s tropical rainforests. The ETHBiodivX team, made of experts in Robotics, eDNA, and Data Insights, is tackling the massive challenge of automating and streamlining the way we monitor ecosystems. Leading the Robotics division, a collaboration between TU Delft’s Prof. Salua Hamaza, ETH Zurich’s Prof. Stefano Mintchev and Aarhus University’s Profs. Claus Melvad and Toke Thomas Høye, is developing cutting-edge robotic solutions to gather ecology and biology data autonomously. “We faced the immense challenge of deploying robots in the wild -- and not just any outdoor environment but one of the most demanding and uncharted: the wet rainforests. This required extraordinary efforts to ensure robustness and reliability, pushing the boundaries of what the hardware could achieve for autonomous data collection of images, sounds, and eDNA, in the Amazon” says prof. Hamaza. “Ultimately, this technology will be available to Indigenous communities as a tool to better understand the forest's ongoing changes in biodiversity, which provide essential resources as food and shelter to the locals.” . . . .

Students Amos Yusuf, Mick Dam & Bas Brouwer winners of Mekel Prize 2024

Master students Amos Yusuf, from the ME faculty, Mick Dam, from the EEMCS faculty, and graduate Bas Brouwer have won the Mekel Prize 2024 for the best extra scientific activity at TU Delft: the development of an initiative that brings master students into the classroom teaching sciences to the younger generations. The prize was ceremonially awarded by prof Tim van den Hagen on 13 November after the Van Hasselt Lecture at the Prinsenhof, Delft. They received a statue of Professor Jan Mekel and 1.500,- to spend on their project. Insights into climate change are being openly doubted. Funding for important educational efforts and research are being withdrawn. Short clips – so called “reels” – on Youtube and TikTok threaten to simplify complex political and social problems. AI fakes befuddle what is true and what is not. The voices of science that contribute to those discussion with modesty, careful argument and scepticism, are drowned in noise. This poses a threat for universities like TU Delft, who strive to increase student numbers, who benefit from diverse student populations and aim to pass on their knowledge and scientific virtues to the next generation. It is, therefore, alarming that student enrolments to Bachelor and Master Programs at TU Delft have declined in the past year. Students in front of the class The project is aimed to make the sciences more appealing to the next generation. They have identified the problem that students tend miss out on the opportunity of entering a higher education trajectory in the Beta sciences – because they have a wrong picture of such education. In their mind, they depict it as boring and dry. In his pilot lecture at the Stanislas VMBO in Delft, Amos Yusuf has successfully challenged this image. He shared his enthusiasm for the field of robotics and presented himself as a positive role model to the pupils. And in return the excitement of the high school students is palpable in the videos and pictures from the day. The spark of science fills their eyes. Bas Brouwer Mick Dam are the founders of NUVO – the platform that facilitates the engagement of Master Students in high school education in Delft Their efforts offer TU Delft Master Students a valuable learning moment: By sharing insights from their fields with pupils at high school in an educational setting, our students can find identify their own misunderstandings of their subject, learn to speak in front of non-scientific audiences and peak into education as a work field they themselves might not have considered. An extraordinary commitment According to the Mekel jury, the project scored well on all the criteria (risk mitigation, inclusiveness, transparency and societal relevance). However, it was the extraordinary commitment of Amos who was fully immersed during his Master Project and the efforts of Brouwer and Dam that brought together teaching and research which is integral to academic culture that made the project stand out. About the Mekel Prize The Mekel Prize will be awarded to the most socially responsible research project or extra-scientific activity (e.g. founding of an NGO or organization, an initiative or realization of an event or other impactful project) by an employee or group of employees of TU Delft – projects that showcase in an outstanding fashion that they have been committed from the beginning to relevant moral and societal values and have been aware of and tried to mitigate as much as possible in innovative ways the risks involved in their research. The award recognizes such efforts and wants to encourage the responsible development of science and technology at TU Delft in the future. For furthermore information About the project: https://www.de-nuvo.nl/video-robotica-pilot/ About the Mekel Prize: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/our-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethics-philosophy-of-technology/mekel-prize

New catheter technology promises safer and more efficient treatment of blood vessels

Each year, more than 200 million catheters are used worldwide to treat vascular diseases, including heart disease and artery stenosis. When navigating into blood vessels, friction between the catheter and the vessel wall can cause major complications. With a new innovative catheter technology, Mostafa Atalla and colleagues can change the friction from having grip to completely slippery with the flick of a switch. Their design improves the safety and efficiency of endovascular procedures. The findings have been published in IEEE. Catheter with variable friction The prototype of the new catheter features advanced friction control modules to precisely control the friction between the catheter and the vessel wall. The friction is modulated via ultrasonic vibrations, which overpressure the thin fluid layer. This innovative variable friction technology makes it possible to switch between low friction for smooth navigation through the vessel and high friction for optimal stability during the procedure. In a proof-of-concept, Atalla and his team show that the prototype significantly reduces friction, averaging 60% on rigid surfaces and 11% on soft surfaces. Experiments on animal aortic tissue confirm the promising results of this technology and its potential for medical applications. Fully assembled catheters The researchers tested the prototype during friction experiments on different tissue types. They are also investigating how the technology can be applied to other procedures, such as bowel interventions. More information Publicatie DOI : 10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464672 Toward Variable-Friction Catheters Using Ultrasonic Lubrication | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore Mostafa Atalla: m.a.a.atalla@tudelft.nl Aimee Sakes: a.sakes@tudelft.nl Michaël Wiertlewski: m.wiertlewski@tudelft.nl Would you like to know more and/or attend a demonstration of the prototype please contact me: Fien Bosman, press officer Health TU Delft: f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl/ 0624953733