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Call for Nominations: DEWIS Award 2024

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the DEWIS Award 2024 , recognizing individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to promoting an inclusive work environment and advancing gender equality and diversity at TU Delft , particularly for women scientists. We are proud to honor two individuals annually, one from each of the following categories: The Early Career Employee Award (PhD candidates, postdocs, and junior staff) is aimed at those in the early stages of their academic or professional careers. The Advanced Career Employee Award (senior staff and professors) is intended for individuals with more extensive experience in their field. Award Criteria We seek nominations for individuals (f/m/x) who meet one or multiple of the following criteria: Promotes Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion : Actively contributes to enhancing gender diversity, equity, and inclusion while fostering competency development among TU Delft-employed faculty and support staff. Addresses Key Areas : Successfully tackles gender diversity and equity challenges in critical domains such as recruitment, education, retention, campus climate, research, networking, or fieldwork. Leads Awareness Initiatives : Takes the initiative to lead efforts that raise awareness and understanding of gender diversity and equity within the TU Delft community. Champions Change : Demonstrates leadership in advocating for gender diversity, equity, and inclusion through innovative policies and research. Fosters Inclusive Relationships : Implements strategies to cultivate a gender-diverse workplace and build inclusive relationships among colleagues. Maximizes Potential : Showcases behaviors and initiatives that unlock the potential of all individuals in the workplace. Stimulates Inclusion Best Practices : Enhances competency through best practices that promote an inclusive environment. Acts as a Role Model : Inspires others by serving as a role model for various audiences, including individuals from different age groups and career stages. Nomination Process To nominate an individual, please submit: A letter of nomination from any TU Delft staff member, paying particular attention to how the nominee's activities reflect one or more of the criteria noted below, in no more than one single-spaced page. Short curriculum vitae or historical background of the nominee (individual or group). Nominations can be submitted by colleagues, supervisors, or students of TU Delft, or the nominee can self-nominate. Deadline for Nominations All nominations must be submitted by 6 December to award-dewis@tudelft.nl Selection Committee The selection committee consists of all DEWIS Board Members, a Faculty Diversity Officer, and the Vice-Rector Magnificus. The DEWIS coordinator will support the committee by handling communication and managing the applications. The Vice-Rector Magnificus of TU Delft will present the award to the winners during the annual DEWIS Symposium. Prize Individual winners will receive a prize of €1,000. This amount will be allocated to a departmental account, to be used at the discretion of the recipient for initiatives that promote gender diversity, equity, and inclusion within their department. Award Ceremony The recipients of the DEWIS Award will be announced during the annual DEWIS Symposium on 14 January, where their contributions will be celebrated in the presence of the Executive Board and the DEWIS community. Leila Alizadehsaravi, DEWIS Award winner 2023 Why Nominate? Recognizing individuals who champion diversity and gender equality inspires a more inclusive academic culture at TU Delft and empowers future generations of women scientists. Your nomination could shine a light on a colleague who has gone above and beyond to make TU Delft a better, more equitable place for all.

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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

Veiligere en efficiëntere bloedvatbehandelingen door innovatieve kathetertechnologie

Wereldwijd worden jaarlijks meer dan 200 miljoen katheters gebruikt voor de behandeling van vaatziekten zoals hartaandoeningen en slagadervernauwing. Hoewel essentieel, brengt het gebruik van katheters risico’s met zich mee: wrijving tussen de katheter en de vaatwand kan complicaties veroorzaken. Een nieuwe technologie, ontwikkeld door Mostafa Atalla en zijn team, biedt een oplossing. Met één druk op de knop kan de wrijving van de katheter worden aangepast, van maximale grip naar volledige gladheid. Deze innovatie belooft niet alleen veiligere, maar ook efficiëntere endovasculaire procedures mogelijk te maken. De resultaten zijn gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift IEEE. Slimme katheter met instelbare wrijving Het nieuwe katheterprototype is uitgerust met geavanceerde technologie die de wrijving tussen de katheter en vaatwand nauwkeurig reguleert via ultrasone trillingen. Dit mechanisme zet via ultrasone trillingen de dunne vloeistoflaag onder druk waardoor de wrijving dynamisch kan worden aangepast: lage wrijving voor soepele navigatie door bloedvaten en hogere wrijving voor optimale stabiliteit tijdens een procedure. Tests tonen aan dat deze techniek de wrijving op harde oppervlakken met gemiddeld 60% vermindert en op zachte oppervlakken met 11%. Veelbelovende resultaten Bij experimenten op dierlijk aortaweefsel heeft het prototype zijn potentieel bewezen. Deze innovatie kan niet alleen bij vaatbehandelingen worden ingezet, maar mogelijk ook bij andere medische procedures, zoals interventies in de darmen. De onderzoekers zijn nu bezig de technologie verder te ontwikkelen en te testen op bredere toepassingen. Meer informatie 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 Wil je een demonstratie bijwonen of in contact komen met een van de onderzoekers neem contact op met: Fien Bosman, persvoorlichter TU Delft Health: f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl/ 0624953733