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About the department Our ambition is to be leading in science that involves both chemistry and engineering, both molecule design and device design. The department of chemical engineering aspires to the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge in our discipline, and to shape that discipline as we do so. Our discipline is the art-turned-science of converting molecular understanding into products and processes that benefit mankind, using a healthy dose of chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology and material science whenever that is called for. Our profession, then, is eclectic by design and united by a synthetic objective . We aim for the highest quality standards in teaching and research. We have a rich heritage of over 125 years, in which we have seen our profession take shape and continuously evolve. In our department we strive for an optimum mix of diversity in background, talents, and skills at all levels to aid in flexibility, creativity, and overall efficiency of operation of the department. Mission We develop solutions for societal problems, leveraging our broad expertise in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics and materials science. We harness our scientific curiosity to define emerging fundamental questions and educate future leaders in the field of chemical engineering. Organisation Executive Board Research Sections Institutes PhD Council Andrea Ramirez Ramirez Head of Department Rienk Eelkema Faculty Member (by rotation) Valeria Garbin Faculty Member (by rotation) Atsushi Urakawa Faculty Member (by rotation) Flore Kruiswijk Department Manager Astrid Barrow Management Assistant Maaike Bijlsma HR Advisor Karin Mol Business Controller Nikky Antonise Project Officer Huma Safdar Project Officer Advanced Soft Matter | ASM Catalysis Engineering | CE Inorganic Systems Engineering | ISE Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage | MECS Opto-electronic Materials | OM Process Systems Engineering | PSE Product and Process Engineering | PPE Transport Phenomena | TP EngD Engineering Doctorate in Product, Process and Equipment Design Chemical Engineering PhD Council PhD students are an integral part of Chemical Engineering at TU Delft, working in different groups of the department. Considering the variety of the PhD body, a ChemE PhD Council has been instated as an intermediary body to the TNW Council to act as the voice of doctoral candidates in the department. What we do Regularly collect information of PhD related issues within ChemE. Act as a communication channel for these issues to the TNW PhD Council, the Head of the Department and other relevant organizations in the faculty. Serve as an information point for the ChemE PhDs. Organize events to promote communication within the department, such as PhD lunch. Members Our attempt is always to have at least 1 representative from each research group to ensure we reach the entire ChemE PhD student body effectively. Below you can find the current members. ASM Anand Raja CE Sven Weerdenburg ISE Adarsh Kalikadien ISE Margareth Baidun MECS Henri Pelzer OM Jasmeen Nespoli PSE Dominik Goldstein PPE Sophie de Boer PPE Kalani Ostermeijer TP Christel Koopman Get in touch Send an email to PhDCouncil-ChemE@tudelft.nl and reach out to current members. Find more information about PhD council(s) on Intranet (needs login) People Principal Investigators Technicians Management Assistants Department Office Atul Bansode Industrial catalysis & Instrumentation High pressure & High-throughput systems Hanieh Bazyar Membrane separation, Smart membranes, Microfluidics Electrochemical CO2 capture Wetting and surface properties Bijoy Bera Wetting theory Interaction at Interfaces Microfluidics Pouyan Boukany Living Soft-Matter Biomicrofluidics Tumour-on-a-Chip Tessel Bouwens Supramolecular materials Artificial photosynthesis Solar chemicals Tom Burdyny Solar Fuels Energy Systems Transport Phenomena Em.prof. Bernard Dam Hydrogen Technology Thin film deposition Optical Sensing Rienk Eelkema Organic chemistry Soft materials Responsive polymer materials Jan van Esch Soft matter Self-assembly Supramolecular chemistry Valeria Garbin Microscale transport phenomena Soft and biological matter Processing of formulated products Ferdinand Grozema Molecular electronics Ultrafast spectroscopy Computational chemistry André de Haan Separation Technology Product Driven Process Design Process Systems Engineering Arjan Houtepen Colloidal Nanomaterials Spectroscopy Electrochemistry Wolter Jager Perylene Chemistry Artificial Photosynthesis Organic Battery Materials Saša Kenjereš Advanced Fluid Mechanics/Heat and Mass Transfer/Turbulence Multi-Scale Multi-Physics Transport Phenomena Bio-medical Applications Tony Kiss Process Systems Engineering Process Intensification Separation Technology Chris Kleijn Transport phenomena Fluid dynamics Computational modeling Gabrie Meesters Product driven process design Formulation Eduardo Mendes Soft matter Functional gels Self-assembly Farzad Mousazadeh EngD Program Process & Equipment Design Dynamic Process Simulation & Control Process Design & Optimization Fokko Mulder Electricity storage and conversion Batteries Hydrogen Ruud van Ommen Chemical reaction engineering Particle technology Nanostructured materials Stephen Picken Liquid crystals Liquid crystal polymers Polymer nanocomposites Evgeny Pidko Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis Computational Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms Luis Portela Fluid mechanics Transport phenomena Computational modelling Marcel de Puit Forensic chemistry Fingerprints Chemical imaging Andrea Ramirez Ramirez Head of Department Laura Rossi Colloidal particles Functional materials Self-assembly Alina Rwei Drug Delivery Wearable Bioelectronics Optogenetics Tom Savenije Photovoltaic materials Charge carrier dynamics Photo-induced microwave conductivity (TRMC) Artur Schweidtmann Artificial intelligence (AI) Machine learning (ML) Process Systems Engineering (PSE) Laurens Siebbeles Optoelectronic Materials Excitons and Charge Carriers Ultrafast Optical and THz Spectroscopy Quantum Theory Ana Somoza-Tornos Process Systems Engineering Sustainability Circular Economy Volkert van Steijn Lab-on-a-chip Fluid dynamics Human disease model Pieter Swinkels EngD Programmes Chemical Product Design and Process Design | Design Thinking and Design Methodologies | Scale-up / Scale-down Atsushi Urakawa Heterogeneous catalysis In situ/operando spectroscopy Reaction engineering Monique van der Veen Nanoporous Materials Separation, Sensing, Electronics, Catalysis Laser Spectroscopy David Vermaas Multiphase Mass Transport Membranes Flow Batteries Electrochemical Separations Liliana Baron Catalysis Engineering Inorganic Systems Engineering Bart Boshuizen LabVIEW programs Departmental XPS Research and Education assistant 'computational chemistry' practical. Duco Bosma Electron Microscopy Proces Design Electro Chemical Systems Marcel Bus Atomic Force Microscopy Lab Courses Advanced Soft Matter Group Kristen David Product and Process Engineering Stefan ten Hagen Product and Process Engineering Transport Phenomena DEMO Employee Aleksandra Kondakova Advanced Soft Matter Sietse Kuipers Organic synthesis Analytical chemistry Spectroscopy Practical Education Bart van der Linden Catalysis Engineering Area Supervisor E2-190 CE-Lab and E2-530 Spectroscopy Lab Xiaohui Liu X-ray diffraction(XRD) Measurement XRD-data analysis Joost Middelkoop Equipment Design Gas Chromatography Atomic Layer Deposition Pierre Retief Willy Rook Gas adsorption on solid materials Christiaan Schinkel Transport Phenomena Herman Schreuders Optical Hydrogen Sensing Sputter Deposition of Thin Films Vacuum Systems John Suijkerbuijk Opto-electronic Materials Hardware Development Software Development Cas Veenhoven Product and Process Engineering Evert Wagner Transport Phenomena Veby Agus Advanced Soft Matter V.A.Agus@tudelft.nl Els Arkesteijn Catalysis Engineering Inorganic Systems Engineering E.M.P.Arkesteijn@tudelft.nl Astrid Barrow Chemical Engineering Department Office A.M.C.Barrow@tudelft.nl Adinda Köhler Opto-electronic Materials Process Systems Engineering A.V.Kohler-1@tudelft.nl Leslie van Leeuwen Product and Process Engineering L.vanLeeuwen@tudelft.nl Sandra Paffen Transport Phenomena S.M.Paffen@tudelft.nl Roos Roeling Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage M.A.H.Roeling@tudelft.nl Sabine Venema-Vanmechelen Engineering Doctorate S.J.H.Venema-Vanmechelen@tudelft.nl Flore Kruiswijk Department Manager F.Kruiswijk@tudelft.nl Maaike Bijlsma HR Advisor M.Bijlsma@tudelft.nl Karin Mol Business Controller K.R.Mol@tudelft.nl Nikky Antonise Project Officer D.J.A.Antonise@tudelft.nl Huma Safdar Project Officer H.Safdar@tudelft.nl Astrid Barrow Management Assistant A.M.C.Barrow@tudelft.nl Frank Mazer Safety Officer F.J.Mazer@tudelft.nl Anneke Koster-Ammerlaan HSE Advisor M.J.J.Koster-Ammerlaan@tudelft.nl Leonie de Kluijs Communication Officer L.H.deKluijs@tudelft.nl

Cooking

Kitchen The best parties end in the kitchen! Celebrate your culinary party and cook your own meal in the Freetown kitchen. Here you will find three kitchen islands that can be used every day of the week for your culinary skills. In addition, culinary activities are also organized regularly by X. Plan a sumptuous dinner with your friends or allow the Nigella Lawson in you to bake a Chocolate Guinness Cake like nobody's watching. The kitchen is a nice place where there is always someone to find and you easily meet others. What are you eating today? Cook as good as you look Reserve now! Reserve a kitchen island We have three kitchen islands: a yellow, a blue and a pink one. The kitchen is equipped with cookers, ovens, microwaves and a fridge. You can use the kitchen on weekdays between 16:45-23:15 and on weekends between 11:45-21:30. The yellow and the blue kitchen islands can be booked online. You do not need an X subscription to do so. The pink kitchen island is available for spontaneous use. It can be booked at the desk of the hosts when you feel like cooking. Click on the button for more info on the kitchen reservation steps. Cleaning is part of it When you make use of the kitchen, you naturally clean up your mess. Also that leaking wrap in the oven and the caked pancake on the cooker. No fridge fights When you leave your food and drink in the fridge, you are giving it up for adoption. You don't have to label your food. Fridge rules The fridge is cleaned out every week, so make sure you secure your food and drink before you lose it. Sharing is caring provision Leftover pre-packaged dry food can be shared in the transparent pantry. This too is cleaned and disposed of by date where necessary.

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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.

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