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Rienk Eelkema

Dr. Rienk Eelkema Associate Professor +31 (0)15 27 81035 R.Eelkema@tudelft.nl Building 58, D2.340 Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands Management Assistant Veby Agus +31 (0)15 27 82682 (phone) +31 (0)15 27 84289 (fax) V.A.Agus@tudelft.nl twitter Rienk's research focuses on interactive organic and polymer materials in aqueous and biological environments. Main activities are in three areas: interactive soft materials using fuel-driven chemical reaction networks, biomolecule labelling, and responsive polymers in biomedical materials. His lab pioneered the use of catalysis to control the kinetics of formation of molecular gels, and the use of chemical fuels to make synthetic active polymers, akin to GTP-driven microtubule polymerization (collaboration with prof. Jan van Esch). His lab is currently focused on the development of signal responsive chemical reaction networks and their incorporation in polymer materials, the application of responsive polymer materials in biomedicine and radiotherapy (collaboration with prof. Antonia Denkova) and protein labeling for sequencing (collaboration with Cees Dekker Lab and Chirlmin Joo Lab). Research group Academic background Rienk was born in 1978 near Utrecht, the Netherlands. He completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Groningen in 2001, majoring in organic chemistry (supervisor Prof. Ben L. Feringa). He then obtained his PhD in Chemistry in the same group, studying supramolecular chemistry, stereochemistry and nano- and microscale motion in liquid crystalline systems. After completing postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford with Prof. Harry L. Anderson FRS in the field of nanoscale insulation of molecular wires, he joined the TU Delft Faculty in 2008 and obtained tenure in 2013. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. +31 (0)15 27 81035 R.Eelkema@tudelft.nl Building 58, D2.340 Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands Management Assistant Veby Agus +31 (0)15 27 82682 (phone) +31 (0)15 27 84289 (fax) V.A.Agus@tudelft.nl twitter Keywords Organic Chemistry Soft Materials Responsive Polymer Materials Out-of-equilibrium Materials Soft Materials for Biomedical Applications Research Google Scholar Educational Activities Molecular Engineering of Soft Materials in Health Care (MSc CH3382) Principles of Chemistry & Thermodynamics (BSc AESB1120-15) Practicum Basisvaardigheden (PBV) (BSc MST 4051PRBVA) Career & Education 2017 - present Associate professor 2008 - 2017 Assistant professor (tenured 2013), Delft University of Technology 2006 - 2008 Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford 2001 - 2006 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Groningen (cum laude, top 5%) 1996 - 2001 M.Sc. Chemistry, University of Groningen Research Interests Application of organic synthesis in materials chemistry, small molecule and polymer self-assembly, new synthetic methodology, catalysis, optoelectronic materials, soft materials, soft robotics, and dynamic and out-of-equilibrium molecular self-assembling systems, application of organic chemistry in biomedicine, protein modification, combined radio-chemotherapy Awards and Grants TU Delft Education Team Award for the Pre-University Chemistry MOOC TU Delft Bioengineering Institute MSc project grant MC-ITN 2018 NWO-NSFC Advanced Materials grant 2017 ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 STW Open Mind grant 2016 Delft Health Initiative seed grant 2016 FOM programme grant 2016 NWO Vidi grant 2013 Early Excellence Profile in J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2013, 26, 287-288 NWO Echo grant 2011 NWO Complexity grant 2010 NWO Veni grant 2009 Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant 2009 KNCV-Backer Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Organic Chemistry in the Netherlands 2007 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant 2006 Rubicon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant 2006 Strating Prize for the best Organic Chemistry colloquium 2000–2001 at the University of Groningen. Title: “Palladium Catalyzed Tandem Reactions” Invited Lectures IChF online seminar “Breaking barriers - physical chemistry in biological systems” 2022 Single Molecule Protein Sequencing conference, Delft 2022 Dynamic covalent chemistry in water conference, University of Twente 2022 NWO Chains 2022 Focus Session “Water-based dynamic covalent chemistry: molecules, techniques, materials” GRC Systems Chemistry 2022, USA LIBER symposium 2022, Helsinki, Finland RSC ChemSci2020, India (virtual) 2021 Gent University 2019, Belgium Tsinghua University 2019, Beijing ICMSC, Lecce, Italy, June 2019 KNCV SOC Wageningen Symposium, April 2019 CHAINS, the Netherlands, December 2018 ERC conference Israel, November 2018 ArmChemFront, Yerevan, Armenia 2018 Radboud University Chemistry Colloquium, Nijmegen NL, 2017 ACS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA 2017 KNAW (Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences) Academy Colloquium: Functional molecular systems going out-of-equilibrium 2016 Micro- and Nanomachines: Chemical and Biological Nanomotors 2016 MESA+ / UTwente Soft Matter+ event, NL 2016 CHAINS soft matter, NL 2015 GRC Supramolecular Materials, Italy 2015 Wageningen University, NL 2015 COST School Colloids and Interfaces, London UK 2015 Delft Process Technology Institute annual symposium, NL, 2014 Leiden University Chemical Biology Lecture, NL, 2014 Prof. Ben Feringa's 100th PhD Symposium, NL, 2014 Royal Dutch Chemical Society Spring Meeting, NL, 2014 University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2014 NWO Molecules: Synthesis and Properties, NL, 2013 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2013. International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Durham, UK, 2012. Fysica-Chemie Conference 2012, University of Twente, 2012. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 2012. NERC institute Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, 2012. Department of BioNanoscience Seminar, TU Delft, 2012. Institute for Systems Chemistry Seminar, University of Groningen, 2012. WUR Department of Chemistry Colloquium, Wageningen, 2010. EUChems Young Investigators Workshop, Regensburg, Germany, 2010. Dutch Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2009. KNCV-Backer award symposium, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2007.

Tom Burdyny

Dr. Tom Burdyny Assistant Professor T.E.Burdyny@tudelft.nl Building 58 Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands Management Assistant Roos Roeling +31 (0)15 27 82165 M.A.H.Roeling@tudelft.nl twitter instagram The Burdyny Energy Lab in the MECS Group is focused on researching technologies that are capable of replacing current fossil fuel manufacturing routes with processes that use renewable electricity as an input. These technologies use electricity to form chemical bonds (also known as electrocatalysis). At present, our primary research focus is on carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) electrolysis, which can convert CO 2 into base chemicals such as CO and ethylene. We take a more engineering approach to the research problem and are focusing on a) scaling-up CO 2 electrolyzers in the lab, b) understanding transport related phenomena occurring inside a CO 2 electrolyzer, and c) assessing the potential impact and operation of H 2 O and CO 2 electrolyzers on our global energy infrastructure. The work is embedded within the e-Refinery Institute. Research group Academic background Thomas Burdyny has a mechanical engineering education in the form of a BEng and MASc from the University of Victoria in Canada. He moved to the University of Toronto for his PhD thesis in photocatalytic and electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 (under Prof. David Sinton), before beginning a postdoctoral fellow at TU Delft in 2018. In 2019 he opened his research group as an Assistant Professor working to advance the performance and scalability of electrochemical technologies. The research mixture of the group is broad and ranges from operando techniques, catalyst development, electrochemical engineering, and transport analysis of electrochemical systems. T.E.Burdyny@tudelft.nl Building 58 Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft The Netherlands Management Assistant Roos Roeling +31 (0)15 27 82165 M.A.H.Roeling@tudelft.nl twitter instagram Keywords Solar Fuels Energy Systems Transport Phenomena ResearcherID Google Scholar

Education

Fossil-free Fuels and feedstock (MSc SET) Chemical Reactor Engineering (BSc MST)

Matheus Martinez Garcia

Background I’m a Brazilian PhD candidate. I’ve obtained my Bachelor (2013-2018) and Master (2018) degrees in Mechanical Engineering at UNICAMP, both in numerical simulations (CFD) of multiphase flows. Currently, I’m working on the development of a controlled swirl-flow separator via an experimental approach. Research Optimized Controlled Inline Fluid Separation Petroleum is hardly found pure in nature. Its extraction usually involves large amounts of other components, such as water, gas or solid particles. Currently, around 4 barrels of water are extracted from the wells for each barrel of oil. The oil must be separated from the water to be sent to the refineries, and this is currently achieved by bulky (and extremely expensive) gravitational separators. Cyclones are compact alternatives to separate the phases. However, the high shear stress caused in the oil droplets by the swirling flow inside the element cause their breakup, and may lead to emulsions; conditions that certainly impact the efficiency of the device. A control system is required to adjust the flow conditions inside the separator depending on the upstream conditions to avoid, or at least minimize, such effects. My project is to develop the control algorithm that maximizes the efficiency of an inline swirl separator. To achieve such a goal it is necessary (i) an understanding of the hydrodynamics of the process, and (ii) image the distribution of phases inside the equipment. This will be achieved together with the other (3) students involved in the project. More info about the project can be found in the TOMOCON.eu website. Matheus Martinez Garcia M.MartinezGarcia@tudelft.nl TU Delft / Transport Phenomena (TP) Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ Delft Office F2.090

Student projects

Master Thesis Projects Bubble dynamics in fluidized bed Supervisors: Luis Portela (Scientific supervisor) and Evert Wagner (Technical supervisor) Contact: Luis Portela ( L.Portela@tudelft.nl )

Luis Portela

Luis Portela group Transport Phenomena Group People Student projects Publications (Google Scholar) Dr. Luis Portela +31 15 27 82842 L.Portela@tudelft.nl Building 58, Room F2.250 Van der Maasweg 9 2629 HZ, Delft The Netherlands

People

Manas Mandalahalli Mass transfer in two phase flow X-ray imaging of bubble dynamics Matheus Martinez Garcia Multiphase flows Inline fluid separation

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Green ammonia remains a challenge, but researchers make significant progress

The production of ammonia, essential for fertiliser production, is responsible for almost 1.5% of global carbon emissions. This needs to be greener, which is why researchers have been looking for sustainable alternatives for years.

"Measuring brain activity through the skull with ultrasound opens new doors"

PhD Candidate Rick Waasdorp is looking for ways to correct the distortion caused by the skull when using Ultrasound technology. ‘’My goal is to develop an adaptive method for skull corrections that automatically measures the skull of new patients.’’

NWO funding for flexible power demand in electrically driven industry

NWO is funding two projects to explore ways to make the power demand of industry more flexible, allowing it to better align with future energy supplies. One of these projects, “DEFLAME,” is led by Machteld van den Broek from TU Delft. Solar and wind power generate variable amounts of electricity, while today’s industry demands a relatively constant supply. Adjustments are needed to prepare industry for a power supply based on sun and wind. These adjustments include technical, economic, and social adaptations that are being researched collaboratively by academic institutions and industry partners in these two projects. They also aim to address the barriers that hinder such adaptations. About DEFLAME DEFLAME stands for Direct Electrification of Industrial Heat Demand supported by Flexibility at Multiple Levels and their Exchanges (DEFLAME). This project aims to make the Dutch process industry—particularly the chemical and food industries—more resilient and climate-neutral by electrifying industrial heat using flexible solutions. Van den Broek explains, “For instance, we could scale installations up or down, store heat in underground systems, and/or store electricity in batteries, so that industry can better respond to fluctuations in the energy network.” This effort requires collaboration across multiple levels: technology, individual plants, industrial clusters, and national and international energy systems. DEFLAME focuses on removing obstacles to electrifying low-temperature heat (up to 400°C) with efficient technology. “This kind of heat is used in many processes. It’s essential to drive the right chemical reactions, and it’s also needed for drying, distillation, and evaporation processes. For example, in the crystallisation process to turn sugar beets into sugar, or in salt extraction,” Van den Broek explains. In crystallisation processes, for instance, mechanical vapour recompression can be used. In this process, vapours are compressed by an electrically driven compressor and then reused to heat the evaporator. “This saves energy, as it uses residual heat and allows for electricity to be sourced cleanly. With solar and wind, unlike with gas, the power supply is variable. If we want to electrify industry, businesses and technology need to be able to respond flexibly to this, for example, by storing heat as a cluster or building flexibility into the electrical system.” DEFLAME will identify strategies and institutional arrangements to unlock these solutions from multiple levels and with an interdisciplinary approach. Van den Broek states, “I look forward to taking an important step together with our partners to advance industrial electrification in the Netherlands. This is an essential part of the energy transition.” Consortium Partners The consortium partners include Atlas Copco, Cosun, ISPT, Nobian, Oranje Wind Power II C.V./RWE, Smart Port, Stedin, Tennet, TNO, TU Delft, and TU Eindhoven. Read the NWO press release . Prof.dr.ir. M.A. (Machteld) van den Broek

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

The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund

Are you a student at TU Delft or another ENHANCE university with a passion for promoting diversity and inclusion? The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund is your chance to turn that passion into action. ENHANCE provides funding to support innovative, student-led projects that address key challenges related to inclusion and diversity within our academic communities. Key Details: Funding Available: Up to 1500 Euros per project in the 1st round! Eligibility: Students from ENHANCE member universities. Staff can also join student-led initiatives. Application Deadline: 8 January 2025. More information: Join the online Information Event on the 26 November 2024 16:00-17:00 CET on Zoom . More information: enhanceuniversity.eu/diversity/diversityseedfund/

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

Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisis

In Nature Partner Journals, ten researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change. "We scientists should not merely outline doomsday scenarios," says Professor Chris Zevenbergen. "Create a vision for people to believe in and work towards.”

Inaugural address: machine optimisation key to more efficient logistics system

The processing and transport of materials can be made much more efficient, says TU Delft professor Dingena Schott in her inaugural address, ‘Advancing Transport and Processing: from Model to Impact’. She will deliver her address on 15 November. Her research focuses on the interaction between machines and materials, with a special emphasis on granular materials.

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students to apply for the Ambitious Project Grant or the Event Grant of up to €15.000!

Education demonstration in Utrecht cancelled

Safety cannot be guaranteed In our post of 22 October , we announced that students and staff of TU Delft will have the opportunity to take part in protests against the cabinet's plans to cut higher education. Today it has been announced that the demonstration against the cuts to higher education and science on 14 November in Utrecht has been cancelled because the safety of the demonstrators cannot be guaranteed. Read the reaction of Universiteiten van Nederland to the cancellation of the education demonstration in Utrecht (Dutch only).

Young Investigator Award for Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna

Gabrielle has won the technical Young Investigator Award at Euroson 2024 (congress of the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in Medicine and Biology) with her presentation entitled: “Ultrasound imaging in bones: tissue characterization, anatomical images
and blood flow measurements”.

Ilaria Orsi joined ImPhys as PhD student

Ilaria started her PhD program in the Renaud group about ultrasound imaging inside bones, contributing to the advancement of such non-invasive technique to characterize tissue composition and to quantify blood flow.

First prize for ZhenZhen Wu at the 2024 NWO Biophysics poster awards

ZhenZhen Wu's poster, “Absolute Voltage Imaging in Developing Zebrafish,” won first prize in the 2024 NWO Biophysics poster awards, competing against over 150 posters. The BioPM Poster Prizes are awarded to the best posters presented at the NWO Biophysics Conference, and the winners are selected by a jury. ZhenZhen Wu z.wu-3@tudelft.nl

Enrolment for new courses open on 13 November

The new courses will start from Monday 18 November. Enrolment for these starts from Wednesday 13 November at 08.00! In the second quarter, a new series of courses awaits you. You can find out more on the website. Maybe you already know that you want to attend your favourite course again or maybe you want to discover and try something new; it's all possible. The enrolment moment for the course depends on the day the course takes place. At 08:00 enrolments for Monday's courses open, at 10:00 for Tuesday's courses, at 12:00 for Wednesday's courses, at 14:00 for Thursday's courses and at 16:00 for courses on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Enrolments go fast Enrolment for our courses always runs fast, so don't wait too long or be surprised by a course where spots are still available! Enrolment closes Enrolment closes on Friday 22 November at 16.00.

Contributions of SPTL at the CVS Congress (21-22 November, Utrecht)

On November 21 and 22, the 51st edition of the CVS congress is held in the Railway museum in Utrecht. Members of the Smart Public Transport Lab contribute to the following sessions: Knus in de bus op dinsdag; zijn alle werkdagen nog wel hetzelfde? Thursday, November 21, 16:00-17:30 Julia Bickel, Maxim Meijers and Niels van Oort [abstract] Stedelijkheidsgraden in transportmodellen: Een analyse over de impact van de ruimtelijke omgeving op reisgedrag Thursday, November 21, 16:00-17:30 Janine Grauss, Justin Hogenberg and Niels van Oort [abstract] Van en naar het treinstation: Voorkeuren van reizigers voor gedeelde elektrische micromobiliteit Friday, November 22, 11:30-13:00 Nejc Geržinič, Mark van Hagen, Dorine Duives and Niels van Oort [ abstract ] Gamen maakt de toekomst – Serious gamen voor een optimale mobiliteitsmix Friday, November 22, 11:30-13:00 Tessa Leferink, Niels van Oort and Sander Lenferink [abstract] De verkenning van de potentie van fietsparkeren bij het ov: een casus in Den Haag Madeline Lai, Dorine Duives, Stefan Talen, Nejc Geržinič and Niels van Oort Friday, November 22, 14:00-15:30 [abstract]

A key solution to grid congestion

On behalf of the TU Delft PowerWeb Institute, researchers Kenneth Brunninx and Simon Tindemans are handing over a Position Paper to the Dutch Parliament on 14 November 2024, with a possible solution to the major grid capacity problems that are increasingly cropping up in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is unlikely to meet the 2030 climate targets, and one of the reasons for this is that large industry cannot switch to electricity fast enough, partly because of increasingly frequent problems around grid capacity and grid congestion. In all likelihood, those problems will actually increase this decade before they can decrease, the researchers argue. The solution offered by the TU Delft PowerWeb Institute researchers is the ‘flexible backstop’. With a flexible backstop, the current capacity of the power grid can be used more efficiently without sacrificing safety or reliability. A flexible backstop is a safety mechanism that automatically and quickly reduces the amount of electricity that an electric unit can draw from the grid (an electric charging station or a heat pump) or deliver (a PV installation). It is a small device connected or built into an electrical unit, such as a charging station or heat pump, that ‘communicates’ with the distribution network operator. In case of extreme stress on the network, the network operator sends a signal to the device to limit the amount of power. Germany recently introduced a similar system with electric charging stations. The backstop would be activated only in periods of acute congestion problems and could help prevent the last resort measure, which is cutting off electricity to users. ‘Upgrading the electricity network remains essential, but in practice it will take years. So there is a need for short-term solutions that can be integrated into long-term planning. We, the members of the TU Delft PowerWeb Institute, call on the government, network operators and regulator to explore the flexible backstop as an additional grid security measure,’ they said. The entire Paper can be read here . Kenneth Brunninx Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Governance and Management, where he uses quantitative models to evaluate energy policy and market design with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions. Simon Tindemans is Associate Professor in the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids group at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. His research interests include uncertainty and risk management for power grids. TU Delft PowerWeb Institute is a community of researchers who are investigating how to make renewable energy systems reliable, future proof and accessible to everyone.

25 year celebration of formal collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the University of Campinas

On 25 October 2024 we celebrated 25 years of formal collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the University of Campinas. What began as a project to exchange some students in chemical engineering has now grown to a multifaceted and broad academic collaboration which accumulated into 24 joint research projects (>20 M Euro); 16 advanced courses and 15 Doctors with a Dual Degree PhD. Patricia Osseweijer, TU Delft Ambassador Brazil explained, “We are proud to show and reflect on this special day the added value we created resulting from our joint activities. The lessons we learned demonstrate that especially continuity of funds and availability for exchanges has contributed to joint motivation and building trust which created strong relations. This is the foundation for academic creativity and high-level achievements.” The program presented showcases of Dual Degree projects; research activities and education. It discussed the future objectives and new fields of attention and agree on the next steps to maintain and strengthen the foundation of strong relations. Telma Franco, Professor UNICAMP shared that “joint education and research has substantially benefitted the students, we see that back in the jobs they landed in,” while UNICAMP’s Professor Gustavo Paim Valenca confirmed that “we are keen to extend our collaboration to more engineering disciplines to contribute jointly to global challenges” Luuk van der Wielen highlighted that “UNICAMP and TU Delft provide valuable complementary expertise as well as infrastructures to accelerate research and innovation. Especially our joint efforts in public private partnerships brings great assets” To ensure our future activities both University Boards have launched a unique joint program for international academic leadership. This unique 7-month program will accommodate 12 young professors, 6 from each university. The programme began on 4 November 2024 in Delft, The Netherlands.

POW team wins TU Delft Education Team Award 2024

During the Teaching Academy's Education Day, the awards were presented for Educator of the Year and Education Team Award. The team that developed the Personal Development Weeks (Persoonlijke OntwikkelingsWeek or POW) of the Bachelor Renewal won the award for TU Delft Education Team of the Year.

Scholarships Abroad Week

Receive funding for your time abroad Are you going abroad for your study programme in Semester 2, 2024-2025? Or are you going abroad for a traineeship/thesis/project in 2024-2025? You can receive additional funding for your time abroad. Come join the scholarship abroad presentation sessions to find out more. Presentation for Exchange students 19 November 13:00 – 13:30 in Lecture Hall C – Daniel Bernoulli (ME, 34.A-0-620) 19 November 19:00-19:30 – online in Teams Presentation for Internship/thesis/project students 19 November 13:00 – 13:30 in Lecture Hall B – Isaac Newton (ME, 34.A-0-720) 19 November 19:00-19:30 – online in Teams For more information visit the Student Portal .

Christmas lunch

Take part in a festive lunch with MoTiv, TU Delft Studentenraad en TU Delft ESA This holiday season, MoTiv, TU Delft, and the local Delft churches are bringing together homes and students for a special, heartwarming experience, and we would love for you to be part of it! After three successful years, we’re excited to continue this festive tradition, bridging cultures and creating connections. Are you interested in joining a holiday lunch as a guest , along with other international students, in a welcoming Delft-area home? Or perhaps you’d like to open your home as a host , sharing a warm, cultural celebration with students from around the world? This special event will take place from December 23rd to December 31st, between 12:00 and 15:00 . For Guests : If you’d like to participate as a guest, we’ll match you with a local host eager to share their holiday traditions. You’ll enjoy delicious dishes, laughter, and meaningful conversations, creating memories that feel like home, even far from family. Once matched, we’ll connect you with your host so you can coordinate details and meal plans together. Sign up as a guest in this google forms.(https://forms.gle/yLAqE83DcqWGwcKB8) For Hosts : If you’re interested in hosting, this is a wonderful opportunity to welcome students into your home for a memorable meal. By sharing food, stories, and perhaps even a few games, you’ll help make the season brighter for students eager to experience Dutch hospitality and holiday traditions. Sign up as a host in this google forms.( https://forms.gle/bJB5svxJZ1iTSF1c6 ) For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at motiv.connects@gmail.com. For more information, please visit our website at www.motiv.tudelft.nl/christmas-lunch-delft/ . Thank you for making this holiday season unforgettable. We look forward to celebrating with you! Warm regards, MoTiv, TU Delft Student Council, TU Delft ESA - Student Community Team