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Ammonia gas – it is both highly poisonous and corrosive, yet also often used in industry, or present around intensive livestock farming. To better mitigate the risks of ammonia leaks, Paddy French together with Lina Sarro and Sten Vollebregt will make smaller, more robust and eventually more affordable ammonia sensors. The NWO OTP programme has funded their research into a fully-integrated, single-chip sensor that incorporates two porous silicon carbide structures for detecting ammonia and humidity, all in a single layer and one etch step.

The SiLEAN project, funded by the European Union, has officially launched with the goal of setting a new benchmark in solar cell efficiency by over 25.5%, while reducing costs and lowering the carbon footprint by up to 75%.

Het PRogramme of Innovation in Mathematics Education (PRIME) is gericht op het herontwerpen van wiskundevakken voor ingenieurs. PRIME ging in 2014 van start, door middel van een pilot programma. PRIME is onderdeel van het Interfacultair Onderwijs vanuit de Department of Applied Mathematics (DIAM) bij TU Delft. Het programma maakt gebruik van een blended learning-cyclusontwerp om wiskunde te geven aan niet-wiskundestudenten binnen de gehele TU Delft.

Ana van Lieshout Titan - prospective master's student in applied mathematics at the Faculty of EEMCS - wrote her bachelor thesis during an internship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And her thesis has now resulted in a publication in the leading medical journal The Lancet Global Health. Ana developed mathematical models for the preventative treatment of tuberculosis among ex-prisoners in Brazil. It’s a tremendously special achievement that Ana has reached this milestone so early in her (scientific) career!

Martin Skrodzki, from the Computer Graphics and Visualization group, has been awarded the NWO WECOM grant. The aim of this NWO programme is to fund science communication projects that promote the connection between science and society. The goal of Martin’s research project is to  enable an AI-informed generation of tomorrow. He is creating an exhibition of four pop-up suitcases that teach the technical fundamentals of AI, and engage the general public in discussions about ethical issues surrounding AI.

Scientists from TU Delft faculty of EEMCS and Honda Research Institute (HRI) in Japan are collaborating on developing a comprehensive AI system for human and group understanding. The project is focused on creating a generic AI system that uses nonverbal cues from human body poses, like hand gestures, eye gaze, facial expressions and speech, for various social interaction tasks. This AI system could make a significant impact on many real-world applications like industrial work, personal daily assistance, and healthcare, where intelligent agents are getting more common in recent years.

De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) heeft aan dertien Delftse jonge wetenschappers uit de wetenschapsdomeinen Exacte en Natuurwetenschappen (ENW) en Technische en Toegepaste Wetenschappen (TTW) een Veni-financiering van maximaal 320.000 euro toegewezen.

Een team onderzoekers van de TU Delft past als eerste ter wereld kwantumcomputers toe om een oud raadsel op te lossen bij het ontwerpen van vezelversterkte composietmaterialen: hoe bepaal je de optimale volgorde van de hoeken waarop de lagen van het materiaal worden samengesteld en gestapeld? Dit bepaalt de mechanische eigenschappen van het materiaal, wat essentieel is voor de toepassing van composieten voor lichtgewicht vliegtuigen, windturbinebladen, auto's of zelfs batterijen. Het QAIMS-team is nu door naar de finalerondes van de Airbus-BMW Quantum Computing Challenge waar ze hun aanpak gaan presenteren om 'de grenzen van kwantumtechnologie voor mobiliteit te verleggen'.

Electric cars are increasingly being charged 'smartly', which means they are only charged at times of high grid availability and low electricity prices. Smart charging prevents grid overload and saves you money. To get maximum benefit from smart charging, you not only want to reduce the charging speed at busy or expensive hours, but also be able to pause charging. Researchers from Utrecht University and TU Delft show that adding charging pauses doubles the effectiveness of smart charging. Most cars already support this, but some car models cannot handle these charging pauses properly. The researchers call on car manufacturers to ensure that all models can handle charge pauses. The standards for this already exist, but are sometimes not appropriately applied. Making technical smart-charging requirements mandatory could help.

On the 18th of May 2024, six TU Delft student teams participated in the “VU CTF” hacking competition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The TU Delft teams placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 11th, winning the gold medal and dominating the leaderboard.