TU Delft in Brazil: "People want to see a professor"

For the past three years, TU Delft has had an office on the campus of Unicamp university in Brazil. But how do you organise joint teaching and research programmes 10,000 kilometres away? “That takes passion.”

LDE centres: Sprint or marathon?

The aim of the Strategic Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Alliance, established by the three universities in 2012, was to improve research and education and competitiveness. Projects are intended to develop from the ground up, which led to the establishment of eight joint centres in 2013. A quick look around reveals that lack of time is proving to be their...

Our start-up could never have been successful

In July 2013, TU Delft alumnus Jan van Kranendonk and his business partner Thomas de Leeuw decided to discontinue their start-up company Sunuru. The reason was that customers were not interested in their ingenious solar project. Van Kranendonk spoke about his failure during the Failcon event in Amsterdam, which is modelled after similar events...

Rock-solid artificial joints

Engineers from TU Delft and doctors from Leiden are joining forces to make loose-fitting artificial joints a thing of the past. They are at the forefront in terms of minimally invasive interventions, which make cutting open patients unnecessary. “Nobody else is doing this yet.”

You must believe in the steps you take; interview

Paul Rullmann decided to leave TU Delft in April, after nearly eleven years on the Executive Board. He started his career as a musician in a folk band but ‘bounced on’, via a tutorship at a university of applied sciences, into policy. Under his leadership TU Delft grew from over 13,000 to more than 17,500 students and education changed...

'Dare to make your own choices'

Cabaret performer Youp van ’t Hek currently holds the position of cultural professor at TU Delft. He is working with 20 students to build “something” that takes the viewer “beyond their senses”. If the subject comes up, he is quite happy to share his life experiences with his students: “Dare to make your own choices, regardless of your parents....