Delft University of Technology contributes to solving global challenges by educating socially responsible engineers and performing world-class research.
Because of his unbridled commitment in the social field to put climate issues on the agenda & to get governments, businesses & institutions to take action, we proudly award
@TimmermansEU
, Vice President of
@EU_Commission
, with an honorary doctorate. Congratulations!
#TUDelft180
TU Delft and
@KLM
are partnering up for the Flying-V project. The aircraft’s design integrates the passenger cabin, the cargo hold and the fuel tanks in the wings, creating a fuel efficient V-shape.
#aviation
#design
#engineering
#tudelft
More:
Successful maiden flight for the Flying-V scaled flight model, the energy-efficient aircraft design by
@tudelft
together with
@klm
and
@Airbus
.
#flyingv
Behold, the world's smallest
#ChristmasTree
!🎄
It consists of 51 atoms that
#physics
student Maura Willems removed from a perfect crystal lattice. The tree is 4 millionths of a millimeter (4 nm) tall (without counting the tree-topper).
#tudelft
🎉 TU Delft has risen 22 places, climbing to the 48th spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023. The university also soared up the Dutch rankings, following up last year’s 4th place with 1st place this year. 👉
🎉TU Delft is ranked in the Times Higer Education World Reputation Ranking 2023 at position 40!
Furthermore, TU Delft is in shared 9th position in Europe, and is in the highest position in the Netherlands.
The full list can be found here:
Delftse studenten van het initiatief
#OperationAIR
hebben in drie weken tijd een werkend prototype van een noodbeademingsapparaat voor coronapatiënten ontwikkeld. De eerste testen van de
#AIRone
zijn succesvol verlopen.
#tudelft
#covid2019
Rosa Bas of
@HPTDelft
has set a new world record in the female ranking, achieved on the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Nevada. On their newest recumbent bike, VeloX 9, she achieved a top speed of 122.12 km/h. Congratulations! Video by Anand Sie.
#tudelft
#vu
#hpt
#velox9
Greenland Ice Sheet experienced record losses in 2019, and it won’t stop there > publication with ao
@bert_polar
@UtrechtUni
/
#TUDelft
Original article:
Mazhar Ali and his research group from
#TUDelft
have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic fields, something that was thought to be impossible ever since its discovery in 1911! Read more here:
The World University Rankings by Subjects 2020, published today, places TU Delft high up in several disciplines. This is a nice compliment to everyone who is committed to the quality of our education and research. Congratulations! 👉
@worlduniranking
#QSWUR
Correction on yesterday's tweet:
Yesterday we donated 40.000 gloves, 500 mouth caps and 50 protective suits to
@erasmusmc
On Monday we'll be donating the same to
@LUMC_Leiden
Our researchers at
@QuTech_news
have succeeded in generating
#quantum
entanglement between two quantum chips faster than the entanglement is lost. The team of Prof. Ronald Hanson is first in the world to deliver such a quantum link ‘on demand’:
Today it’s Purple Friday! By colouring our flame purple for a day we’d like to show that everyone is welcome at our university, no matter their gender identity, gender expression, sex or sexual orientation. 💜🔥
#tudelft
#purplefriday
#paarsevrijdag
How can we improve
#software
engineering using
#AI
?
@JetBrains
and
@TUDelft
are joining forces and launching a new ICAI lab AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE). Our goal? Explore how AI can aid and boost developer productivity.
👉
From tomorrow, 13 March 2020 until at least 31 March 2020, there will be no on-campus education at TU Delft; this includes exams. In the coming period, education will be offered online as much as possible. More information on:
TU Delft is ranked 10th for Engineering & Technology in the QS World University Rankings by Subject which has just been published. We also made the top 20 in ten of its categories.
Just moments ago,
@DilanYesilgoz
(State Secretary
@MinisterieEZK
) officially opened our ESP Lab. In the ESP Lab, the Dutch electricity grid is being prepared for the future. Read more about the ambitions of this brand new lab:
Our professor and biotech pioneer Mark van Loosdrecht is named the 2018 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for revolutionizing water and wastewater treatment. Congratulations 🎉
#SWP2018
#WorldWaterDay
According to the World University Rankings, the TU Delft is leading in MOOC performance (Massive Open Online Courses), with almost 100 courses offered! have you tried them yet?
Congratulations
@Jack_Pronk_
for winning the NWO Stevin Prize! Pronk has been awarded for the social impact of his work. Namely, his ability to translate fundamental scientific knowledge about the working of micro-organisms into a wide range of commercial applications.
Last month, 89-year-old Hans van Duivendijk defended his doctoral thesis ‘Fighting Against the Current’ on sealing dike breaches with relatively simple methods. This makes him the oldest PhD graduate ever at TU Delft. 👉
TU Delft is ranked 57nd position in the new
@TimesHighEred
World University Rankings, a rise of five positions compared with last year! This makes us - like the 2019 QS
@worlduniranking
- the highest-ranking Dutch university.
Today is the start of the Solar Challenge in Morocco. Good luck to the students from Delft in the
@VattenfallTeam
! After a successful qualification their solar car, Nuna11, will start from the second position.
#SCM2021
#SolarRacing
☀⚡
Yesterday, the
@NuonSolarTeam
won the Sasol Solar Challenge in South Africa. Despite some major setbacks, they covered the furthest distance in eight days of all teams: an astonishing 4030.4 kilometers!
Just announced: TU Delft ranks 52nd position in new
@worlduniranking
(2017: 54th), the highest-ranked
#Dutch
#university
on this list again. Last week, TU Delft retained its position as leading Dutch university in
@timeshighered
:
The new education building, Echo, opened! Echo is the first energy-producing building at
@tudelftcampus
. It is set to contribute to the ambition of
#tudelft
to become a carbon-neutral and circular campus by 2030.
#climateaction
#energytransition
GitHub is the storage space of the digital world and a gold mine for
#datascience
. But getting good data was hard. But that all changed when Georgios Gousios (
@gousiosg
) developed GHTorrent.
The climate is changing and this is something we shall have to deal with. In what way
@tudelft
wants to contribute is written down in a vision paper on Climate Action published today. You can read the vision and it's three main pillars at:
De Nederlandse
#bodem
zakt meer dan verwacht. Dat blijkt uit de Bodemdalingskaart die deze week wordt gepresenteerd. Het project staat onder leidng van prof. Ramon Hanssen (NCG &
#TUDelft
)
TU Delft maintains its position in the top 50 of the 21st edition of the authoritative QS World University Rankings (2025) and is therefore in the top 4% of the highest scoring universities in the world.
👉 Read more here:
Professor Geert-Jan Houben has been appointed as Pro Vice-Rector Magnificus of Artificial Intelligence, Data and Digitalisation. He will be leading the TU Delft AI Initiative and promoting regional, national and international co-operation on this theme.
Today, the Dutch look back on the great flood of 1953, which took the lives of more than 1,800 people. Olivier Hoes (water management researcher at
@TUDelft_CT
) made this impressive time-lapse, showing the way the water spread during the first two days of the
#watersnoodramp
🎉 TU Delft is very proud to announce that our Echo education building has been awarded the World Prix Versailles 2023 (Campuses category). The award stands for excellence in architecture and design.
👉Read more here:
The flame in our logo is of
#Prometheus
. Prometheus is a Greek hero, who dared to oppose Zeus & stole the fire of the heavens, in order to bring prosperity,
#knowledge
for
#innovation
& civilization to mankind. We are committed to using the fire to make the world a better place.
Dr. Nava Tintarev from the EEMCS Faculty has won the Mekel Prize 2019 for the most socially responsible innovation at TU Delft: on decision models that breaks through filter bubbles. The prize was awarded on 21 November during the Van Hasselt Lecture in the Oude Kerk Delft.
Andy van den Dobbelsteen,
@dobbelska
, has been appointed as
#tudelft
Sustainability Coordinator.
Van den Dobbelsteen will, in his new role, develop a
#sustainability
vision and programme for the campus.
👉
Here at TU Delft, we offer plant-based milk options as standard at our coffee corners. Most of our coffee machines are already stocked with oat milk. The environmental footprint of oat milk is 3.5 times lower than that of cow's milk, and soy milk is 3.2 times lower. 🌍
🎉17 Veni grants have been awarded to TU Delft researchers in the fields of Applied and Technical Sciences & Exact and Natural Sciences! This will allow the laureates to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.
👉Read more:
Today we celebrate the 178th birthday of TU Delft!🎉 This afternoon
@paulhekkert
will deliver the annual Dies Natalis speech on the beauty of doing the right thing. Watch the official ceremony, starting at 15:00, here:
Congratulations to the seven TU Delft researchers who have been awarded the
@ERC_Research
grants! The grants are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work.
.
@NWONieuws
announced Lieven Vandersypen has been awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch Science. Rector
@TimvanderHagen
: 'This award is a monumental recognition, it underlines the outstanding quality of his quantum research.'
@QuTech_news
“Catalysis – the driving force behind fertiliser production – will also be essential in tackling CO2 emissions. I develop catalysts and catalytic processes to turn CO2 into useful chemicals, such as sustainable fuels.”
#TUDelft180
Until 31 March education will be offered online as much as possible. In order to assist our teaching staff in providing online education,
@tudelft
offers a guide with instructions and tips & tools:
Good
#software
can make our lives better. "But the reality is that
#developers
do not always test their software well enough," explains Andy Zaidman. He works to better that, with
#AI
, taking in account technical and human factors.
🛰️💔Yesterday, Delfi-C3, the revolutionary Dutch nanosatellite built by students, completed its epic journey by re-entering Earth's atmosphere. After 14 extra years in space, it's a bittersweet goodbye to this tiny pioneer.👉 Read more here:
Thanks to an image from April 2019, we know what a
#blackhole
looks like: a dark eye surrounded by a ring of light.
@tudelft
researchers studied the black holes from Oscar-winning Hollywood movie
#Interstellar
and made several improvements.
🎉The 2023 Professor of Excellence Award has been awarded to Just Herder, professor of Interactive Mechanisms and Mechatronics, for his exceptional ability to demystify complex concepts and for his special role as a mentor and an example to students and PhD candidates.
Congratulations to Georgios Andreadis for winning the title of
#BestGraduateTUDelft2020
! With his thesis about datacentres, he developed a tool to use servers as efficient as possible, reducing the energy consumption by half.
#tudelft
#DelftUniversityFund
We look forward to another year of technological research and innovations that will have a real impact on society. Looking around, you could say that we ‘are everywhere’.
🚲How can we help cyclists and rowers go faster? Researcher Andrea Sciacchitano will receive funding from
@NWONieuws
for his research project 'Flow for Gold: Quantitative flow visualisations to enhance sports performance'.
👉 Read more:
This newly opened sewage treatment plant is able to extract a new resource from wastewater, called
#Kaumera
Nereda® Gum, co-developed by TU Delft researchers. This material can be used as a sustainable replacement for several chemical compounds. More:👉
🚲 The Netherlands' most intelligent bicycle lane has been installed on TU Delft campus
@PlasticRoad_EU
,
@tudelft_CT
. Read more about this bicycle lane that is able to 'understand' how it is used:
Vandaag vond Meet the Professor Delft plaats! 36 professoren gaven hun gastcollege aan kinderen van groepen 7 en 8 op Delftse scholen. De kinderen leerden over sleutelgatoperaties en windturbines en ze mochten de ideale vliegtuigstoel of het perfecte schoolplein ontwerpen.
Today was the official opening of the 24/7 Energy Lab. The lab is a local decarbonised energy system, something that is urgently needed.
Read more here: and join us in our mission to accelerate the
#EnergyTransition
.
#TUDelft180
For the next ten years we are allocating 22 million euro to set up and shape an extensive
#ClimateAction
Programme. It is not only focussed on additional investments in research and education but also improving the
#sustainability
of the
#tudelft
campus.
👉