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News No home left behind: involving Dutch residents in the energy transition Four TU Delft PhD researchers are helping Dutch residents drive the energy transition through inclusive, sustainable housing renovations. Urban Energy Meetup Recap: Retrofitting Homes with Homeowners Associations (VvEs) On October 29, the Urban Energy Institute hosted a meetup on retrofitting homes via HOAs, featuring experts Ragy Elgendy and Laura Filemon. Mailing List Interested in receiving notices about upcoming events? This content is being blocked for you because it contains cookies. Would you like to view this content? By clicking here , you will automatically allow the use of cookies. Upcoming Events Speeding Up the Energy Transition in Existing Buildings Urban Energy Symposium 2024 19 November 2024 Kennissessie aquathermie in de warmtetransitie 26 November 2024 Energie Lab Zuidoost 2025 27 March 2025 Past Events & Recordings Burgerparticipatie in de Energietransitie 14 November, 15:00 - 18:00 Vakwerkhuis – Lecture hall (DUWO building) Urban Energy Lunch Meetup 29 October 2024 at 12:00 ’Dare to change energy: Our shared obligation’ Farewell Speech of prof. dr.ing. M. Zeman (EWI) October 6, 15:00 Understanding Consumers and their Energy Investment Decisions: Planning of the Next Generation Electricity Infrastructure Align4energy webinar 26 September 2024 Organized by AMS Institute Sustainable heat transition of Amsterdam AMS Institute Seminar 6 September 2024 Register now, tickets limited! Organized by AMS Institute International PhotoVoltaic Systems Summer School 2024 30 June - 5 July 2024 at Delft University of Technology Solar Park and Battery Field Trip Join the trip with the lunch provided! Inagural Lecture with Phil Vardon April 19 2024 at 15.00 in the Aula of the TU Delft. Product lifetime extension through design SIET Webinar Series 2024: Dr. Renske van den Berge 6 September 2024 SIET Webinars Series 2024: Kai Bellmann 28 June 2024 Registration is open! SIET Webinar Series 2024: Ondrej Kacha 24 May 2024 Recording of the lecture available! Inagural Lecture with Kamel Hooman February 7 2024 at 15.00 in the Aula of the TU Delft. Summer School 2024 7-12 July 2024 at Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, TU Delft. Registration is open. Perspectives on implementing district heating in the built environment. Lunch Lecture - 6 June 2024 Thermo-X Meet-Up #4 April 24, 2024, 15.30-18.00 Registration is open. Seminar Energy Lab Southeast March 28, 2024, 12.00 - 18.00 Amsterdam South East Organized by AMS Institute 2023 Shoot for the moon, land among the stars Symposium - Future Horizons of the Urban Energy Transition November 21, 2023 Thermo-X Meet-Up #3 October 18 2023 14:45-18:00 Summer School Sustainable Housing from a European Perspective 3 - 14 July 2023 Thermo-X Meet-Up #2 April 20 2023 15:00-18:00 Best Climate Action & Energy Paper Award 2022 15 March 2023 at 15:00 PhD PostDoc Poster Pitches September - October 2023 Energy in Architecture June 13 2023 16:00-18:30 UEI PhD Community Meet-up 19 April 2023 at 16:00 - 18:00 UEI PhD Community Meet-Up February 23 February 2023 at 16:00 Workshop: Deeper Renovations for More Homeowner Associations 22 November 2023 UEI PhD Community Meet-up 25 May 2023 at 16:00 - 18:30 UEI PhD Community Meet-Up March 23 March 2023 at 16:00 Borrel with PhDs and Post Docs 11 January 16:00 2022 Façades as a Service Tillmann Klein & Martijn Veerman | 14 Dec 12:30 Sustainable Built Environment Conference Innovations for the Urban Energy Transition: Preparing for the European Renovation Wave Where: TU Delft, Aula When: October 11-13, 2022 Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness: building’s occupants engagement in energy transition Natalia Romero Herrera, Faculty of Industrial Design, TU Delft | May 25, 2022 How low can you go? By Ivo Pothof | Deltares 13 April, 2022 Reinventing the City Scientific Conference AMS Institute | 16-18 February, 2022 PhD Post Doc Poster Pitches & Lunch 7 December 12:00-14:30 - POSTPONED Market Potential of Small, (Near) Zero-Energy Dwellings Cynthia Souaid | 21 Sept Symposium: Perspectives on PV Integration State-of-the-art Technology and Applications | May 13, 2022 Best Energy Paper Award March 16, 2022 15:00-17:00 Building transformative capacities Harald Rohracher February 9, 2022 Piloting underground seasonal heat storage dr. ir. J.M. (Martin) Bloemendal | 9 Nov 16:00 Data mining with the intelligent cloud Dick van Straaten | LINKIT 15 June, 2022 PhD & Post Doc Borrel Network & Drinks Café X building 20 April, 2022 Queena Qian and Shima Ebrahimigharehbaghi March 9, 2022 Brains for Building Energy Systems Models & ML for an Efficient Approach of Operation Laure Itard | January 13, 2022 2021 Solar Energy for Climate Impact Wim Sinke, TNO Energy Transition | 8 December 2021 LT Ready Symposium TU Delft X (Mekelweg 10) October 14, 2021 Thermal energy from the urban water cycle Prof Jan Peter van der Hoek June 9, 2021 Strategies for Efficient Modular and Offsite Construction Practice Mohamed Al-Hussein, University Alberta, April 21, 2021 Lecture: Propelling the Evolution of Smart Grids and Buildings March 18, 2021 Spectral Kick-Off event Energie Lab Zuidoost March 9, 2021 PhD's Campus Tour & Drinks 16 November 13:00 at X Building TUD Campus Sustainability Plan Andy van den Dobbelsteen Prof Climate Design & Sustainability | October 6, 2021 Accelerating low-carbon energy production with smart sector coupling Ramboll | May 26, 2021 Living-cost neutral energy renovations in the housing sector Carl-Peter Goossen, BouwNext | April 7, 2021 People & Technology in Energy Renovations Arno Peekel and Nelleke Nelis | March 15, 2021 Magnetocalorics Boosting the Dutch Energy Transition Michael Maschek, Magneto February 13, 2021 High-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage Marette Zwamborn - KWR Water | Nov 10, 2021 Decarbonizing the EU building stock – how are we doing? York Ostermeyer | Chalmers University | September 8, 2021 Mass Future Home Renovations in Europe and Beyond! Ulla-Britt Krämer, Provincie Overijssel | May 12, 2021 PhD & PostDoc 360° Poster Event PhDs, PostDocs and Masters Students March 29, 2021 Towards Energy Efficiency in Dutch Social Housing Herman van der Bent March 10, 2021 How to Prevent Overheating in Dwellings Pieter Nuiten - W/E Adviseurs February 10, 2021 2020 The Need for Local (Urban) Learning Lena Neij, Lund University of Sweden December 2, 2020 Designing the Productive City Greg Keeffe, Queens University Belfast October 14, 2020 Saving Energy With a Flexible Climate System Frank Visscher, Priva September 2, 2020 How cities contribute to local energy solutions Joop Oude Lohuis, Gemeente Utrecht June 3, 2020 A Geothermal Campus Phil Vardon, TU Delft April 15, 2020 Geothermal Technologies in the Built Environment David Bruhn, GFZ Potsdam November 18, 2020 Utilising Solar Everywhere Olindo Isabella, TU Delft September 23, 2020 Data Centre Heat in Amstel III Richard Ruijtenbeek, City of Amsterdam July 1, 2020 Tailor-made Mass Customization Lianda Sjerps-Koomen, Rc Panels May 19, 2020 Smart Buildings Symposium February 7, 2020 Participatory Value Evaluation Niek Mouter, TU Delft November 4, 2020 Implementation of Fossil Free Heating Technology SHIFFT Project Researchers September 19, 2020 Affordable and Scalable Construction Folkert Linnemans, Dijkstra Draisma June 17, 2020 District Heating Sustainability Michiel Korthals Altes, Purmerend District Heating May 6, 2020 Energy Transition Through the Eyes of a Developer Maarten Kokshoor, Heijmans January 21, 2020 Meetup: Hot Stuff Thermo-X Platform January 20, 2020 2019 Photovoltaics in the urban environment Olindo Isabella, TU Delft December 12, 2019 Business opportunities for energy flexible buildings Erwin Mlecnik, TU Delft June 18, 2019 Cost effective Heat-Transition Folckert van der Molen, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving 19 maart 2019 Smart Energy Services on TOON Stephen Galsworthy, Quby 20 November 2018 Energy, Space and Cities Taco Kuijers, Generation.Energy November 19, 2019 Fossil-free Energy Districts Johanneberg Science Park May, 14 2019 Cool heat grids for sustainable urban energy systems Sabine Janssen 15 January 2019 Transforming the household heat demand Vincent Dekker, Liander 16 October 2018 It's not easy being green Gerdien de Vries, TU Delft September 17, 2019 City neighbourhood decarbonisation from theory to practice Riccardo M. Pulselli, Indaco2 10 April 2019 Pushing design boundaries Cristina Jurado López, ABT 18 December 2018

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Moving the Closet

You simply cannot miss it, it is big and magenta: the Pink Closet . On 12 November 2024 the Pink Closet will head to the Main Hall of the TU Delft Library for the first time! The Pink Closet will take its place at the Nook, where it will feature as part of the Studium Generale programme on loneliness. More information on events that coincide with and incorporate the Pink Closet at TU Delft Library will soon be available on the website of Studium Generale .

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.

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 .