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Going Dutch: Building you new life in The Netherlands July

Going Dutch: Building you new life in The Netherlands July 04 July 2022 16:00 till 18:00 | Add to my calendar “How can I meet people & make friends?”, “how do I introduce myself to the neighbours?”, “how much money should I spend on a birthday present?” These questions and many more often go through the heads of internationals arriving in a new country. This light hearted, fun yet informative workshop will introduce you to the Dutch people, their mentality and Dutch society in general. We’ll cover a range of topics from meeting people to dealing with the neighbours, from birthdays to customer service. From communicating with the plumber to fun things to do at the weekend. You’ll receive practical tips to help you (and your family) settle quickly and build a life in the Netherlands. Who? International TU Delft employees and their partners. When? Monday July 4th 2022 from 16.00 – 18.00 hrs. Location? Online. A zoom link will be sent to you 4 days prior to the event. Trainer Caitríona Rush is an Irish national who has been to over 40 countries across 7 continents and has worked in 9 countries across the globe. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands for 15 years. Currently settled just outside the Hague, Caitríona works as a cross cultural consultant. Through her business, At Home Abroad, she enables internationals lead a happier, and more successful & effective life living, working and doing business in the Netherlands. Registration You can sign up here . Deadline for registration is 5 days prior to the event. If you can’t make it or if you have any other questions, please send an email to Events-ComingtoDelftServices@tudelft.nl .

Cycling Lecture

Cycling Lecture 09 June 2022 09:30 till 11:00 - Location: Online | Add to my calendar Did you know there are more bikes in The Netherlands than people? Cycling in The Netherlands is a way of life. If you are new to the country and are curious to learn the rules and tips for cycling in The Netherlands, then this information session is for you. The aim of this lecture is to provide useful and practical information to help international TU Delft staff members and their partners, ensuring they are prepared for cycling in Delft and its surroundings. The online lecture will consist of: a) teaching general information about the Dutch cycling culture and history b) rules of the road c) good practices and behaviours d) right of way laws e) maintaining a bicycle The lecture will allow participants a detailed understanding of the rules and theories associated with cycling in the Netherlands. Photos of traffic situations on campus and around Delft may be utilized to make sure the teaching is relevant to the participants. During the interactive lecture, attendees are free to ask any related questions and join in the discussion. Who? International TU Delft employees and their partners. When? 9 June 2022 from 9.30 – 11.00 hrs Online meeting details Instructions on how to participate in this online workshop through a video group call will be shared with participants after registration, three days before the event will take place. Language As all of our workshops are taught entirely in English, participants must demonstrate a good command of the English language, both spoken and written (comparable with Cambridge level B2 ).\ Costs? The workshop is free of charge for international TU Delft employees and partners. Registration? You can sign up here . The deadline for registration is 4 days prior to the event (up to 5th June, 23.55 hrs). If you can’t make it or if you have any other questions, please send an email to Events-ComingtoDelftServices@tudelft.nl .

Buying a House

Buying a House 15 June 2022 15:30 till 17:00 - Location: ONLINE (ZOOM MEETING) | Add to my calendar Even though renting in the Netherlands offers flexibility and certain rights, buying a property is considered to be a smart financial investment. However, there are a lot of things to take into account. Buying a house is a complicated process and there are many things to think about. During this information meeting an independent mortgage advisor and a real estate agent will share their knowledge and expertise. Here are a few reasons why you could think about buying a house in the Netherlands: Pride of ownership; owning a house offers a sense of stability and security Control over the property Great financial incentives / tax benefits Can be a smart investment Did you know that there are also options as a PhD student or postdoc to apply for a mortgage and to buy your own house? PhD students who are already searching for their own property, based on the idea that they have a good future perspective with their (educational) background. Nevertheless, in practice it often appears that PhD students (and postdocs) have difficulty obtaining a mortgage. To learn more about your options, make sure to register for this information meeting. Who? International employees of TU Delft and/or their partners interested in buying a house in the Netherlands. When Wednesday 15 June 2022 - The meeting is scheduled from 15.30 – 17.00. Location Online. A zoom link will be shared with you 3 days prior to the event. Language The information meeting is delivered in English. The Experts V&W Adviseurs is specialized in giving mortgage advice to academic staff (including PhD students and Postdocs) attending universities throughout the Netherlands. Their own real estate office is located in Delft where they can assist you with the purchase and/or sale of your property. They can offer a complete package when purchasing and financing your new home. Registration How to register? You can sign up here . The deadline for registration is 9th June 2022. If you can’t make it or if you have any other questions, please send an email to Events-ComingtoDelftServices@tudelft.nl .

Limits of Defect Tolerance in Perovskite Nanochrystals

Lead halide perovskites are a peculiar class of semiconductors. Perovskite solar cells have skyrocketed to efficiencies of 26% in a few years. Perovskite nanocrystals can have photoluminescence quantum yields of 100%, making them highly promising for applications in e.g. lighting and lasing. All this is usually explained by the “defect tolerance” of the perovskite electronic structure: as a result of the specific atomic orbitals that join to form the conduction and valence bands, structural defects or undercoordinated surface ions should not lead to electronic states in the bandgap, so-called “traps”, which usually lead to all sorts of trouble. And yet, both theoretical and experimental studies show that undercoordinated halide ions on the surface do sometimes form traps. Indy du Fossé and coworkers from the NCFun group of prof. Arjan Houtepen have shown that the traditional picture of defect tolerance is incomplete and should also include the local electrostatic environment. In most semiconductor materials, undercoordinated atoms lead to localized electronic states that lie somewhere in the bandgap. These trap states cause non-radiative recombination of electrons and holes and thus lower the efficiency of a device you build with these materials. Lead halide perovskites, like CsPbBr 3 , however, behave differently because of their defect tolerance. Due to the electronic structure of the valence and conduction band, the traps from undercoordinated atoms are expected to lie outside the bandgap, making them a whole lot less troublesome. However, various studies have shown that undercoordinated bromide atoms still lead to traps inside the bandgap, which cannot be explained by the traditional picture of defect tolerance. In their recent publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , Du Fossé and colleagues explain this discrepancy by showing that you should also take the local electrostatic potential into account. An undercoordinated bromide at the surface of the nanocrystal can experience a different potential than a bromide somewhere in the middle of the particle. This potential can push the traps related to the surface bromide from inside the valence band all the way up into the bandgap. Not only do these findings increase our understanding of traps in lead halide perovskites, they also point the way to new methods for removing these unwanted traps. Usually, one tries to covalently bind another molecule (a “ligand”) to an undercoordinated bromide to remove the trap state. Du Fossé and coworkers show that simply adding a positive ion near the bromide also does the trick. It lowers the electrostatic potential around the bromide and thus pushes the trap out of the bandgap. Limits of Defect Tolerance in Perovskite Nanocrystals: Effect of Local Electrostatic Potential on Trap States – Du Fossé et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. Indy du Fossé Prof. Arjan Houtepen Read the article

Walk-in Career Counselling - September

Walk-in Career Counselling - September 12 September 2022 10:00 till 11:00 - Location: Online | Add to my calendar Do you need exclusive guidance on preparing your LinkedIn profile by tailoring it based on your career goals? You can now opt for a walk-in career counselling session with one of our career counsellors at TU Delft! Additional walk-in career counselling sessions are organized with TU Delft career counsellors in case you require extra help in strengthening your LinkedIn profile. The sessions are generally conducted online and are subject to the availability of slots per session. The session is offered to the participants who have already attended the Partner Career Workshops. Participants are expected to have attended the LinkedIn session offered as part of the Partner Career Workshops and completed the free online course . Are you a partner of a guest researcher of TU Delft? We have to inform you that seats in this workshop are primarily reserved for partners of employees with a regular contract. Please register and in case there are open slots available, you are more than welcome to join and we will reach out to you no later than 3 days before the start of the workshop. Who Partners / Spouses of TU Delft employees who have attended the Partner Career Workshop and require additional guidance with the preparation of their LinkedIn profile. When The event is scheduled online from 10:00 – 11:00, 12 th September, 2022 Counsellors Margaret Welten joined the Technical University of Delft in 2015 as Career Counsellor. With a MSc in Career Coaching, she delivers personalised coaching and workshops. She helps individuals to take stock of their strengths, values and interests and define what's needed in terms of achieving their career aspirations. Margaret has over 20 year experience as a professional HR Business Partner in national and multi-national companies. Being of Scottish origin, Margaret relocated to The Netherlands in 2009 so she fully understands the challenges working and living in an international environment brings. Claire Visée is a TU Delft alumni herself, she understands what it means to be an engineer and what it entails to enter today’s labour market. Next to providing careers’ advice, she is also our company liaison. Costs The workshop is free of charge for international partners of TU Delft employees. Registration You can sign up here .The deadline for registration is a week prior to the event. If you can’t make it or if you have any other questions, please send an email to Events-ComingtoDelftServices@tudelft.nl .

Personal Wellbeing Series

Personal Wellbeing Series 06 September 2022 10:00 till 13:00 - Location: On Campus | Add to my calendar ‘’Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.’’ William Bridges As an accompanying partner of a new international TU Delft employee, do you feel like you need a new support network? Do you experience some culture shock or at times, loneliness? These are feelings that all of us are familiar with. And, knowing that there are others who have similar doubts and feelings as you can be both comforting and encouraging. Keeping this in mind, we are introducing the “Personal Wellbeing” workshop. The Personal Wellbeing series consist of 4 interactive meetings with the objective of providing you with a peer group to exchange ideas on topics like building a community, embracing change, being resilient and tackling loneliness in a new place. This is a place to ask questions and share experiences with an emphasis on peer group building with a climate of understanding and support for partners Who? Partners of International TU Delft employees who may or may not be looking for a job in the Netherlands but are interested in building a community of support. When? Tuesday, September 6th, 10.00 to 13.00 Tuesday, October 4th, 10.00 to 12.00 Tuesday, November 1st, 10.00 to 12.00 Tuesday, December 6th, 10.00 to 12.00 *Please note that you are expected to join and participate in all 4 meetings. Location? On campus. An email with the location details will be sent to you 4 days prior to the event. Language The workshop is offered in English. Availability & Registration We have a maximum of 12 spots available per group, the workshop is free of charge for international partners of TU Delft employees. Trainer Annemarie Koppenaal Ever since I was young, I’ve had a passion for people. I like to get to know them, understand what motivates them, where they are heading in life and how they think they will turn their vision into reality. Then I will do whatever is in my power to assist, guide, coach, and mentor them on their journey. That’s why I am a Success Coach and a balanced Female Entrepreneur. Read more… Registration You can sign up here . Deadline for registration is 5 days prior to the event. If you can’t make it or if you have any other questions, please send an email to Events-ComingtoDelftServices@tudelft.nl .

Networking – July

Networking – July 07 July 2022 15:30 till 17:00 | Add to my calendar This workshop will be conducted in person. *Note : The event may be moved online in case Covid regulations apply. In this workshop you will receive: • Introduction and insights to Networking in the Netherlands • Practical networking strategies to further your career • Tools to increase visibility online and offline • Tips for building and maintaining a personal brand • Ways to feel more confident when applying for a job, or continuing your career in the Netherlands Who? International TU Delft employees who want to extend their professional and social network and their partners who are also interested in networking as part of their job hunt. When? The workshop is scheduled on July 7th from 15:30 – 17:00 + networking with drinks after the event Location details TU Delft Campus (venue details to be shared after registration) *In case Covid regulations apply, the event will take place online. This information will be given in advance. Language As all of our workshops are taught entirely in English, participants must demonstrate a good command of the English language, both spoken and written (comparable with Cambridge level B2). Trainer Renée Tentori loves to connect, communicate and educate. A Dutch Australian who has travelled the world, Renée has now settled in The Hague, The Netherlands and is raising two bilingual global citizens. She is a part time lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and has also run her consultancy and training company, Zestee, for over a decade. Her areas of expertise include communications, networking, education, technology, blended learning, social media, visibility and culture. Costs The workshop is free of charge for TU Delft employees and their partners. Registration How to register? You can sign up here . We have limited spots available, deadline for registration is 5 days prior to the event. If you can’t make it or if you have any other questions, please send an email to Events-ComingtoDelftServices@tudelft.nl

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TU Delft jointly wins XPRIZE Rainforest drone 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