The storytellers of the Northern Light

They designed the Rijksmuseum app, which this year won several awards, and will release what they believe is the new standard for museum apps in October. TU alumni Steven Schaeken and Peter Slavenburg talk about their passion for design and technology

Biofuel seeks endorsement

Biofuels such as ethanol from sugar cane and cellulose ‘waste’ are theoretically sustainable, as their combustion releases no more CO2 than is absorbed during production. Even so, they are also controversial, because they are believed to be grown at the expense of food crops, or because areas of rainforest are believed to the cleared for them....

Life is something you create together

Biophysicist Professor Cees Dekker had a notable start to the year. He was appointed as a Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his life’s work and received a major European research grant to develop artificial cell division. Dekker (56) is now focusing on the development of artificial life.

Heart cells on a chip

Beating human heart cells are expected to give a significant boost to drug research. Researchers at TU Delft are working to develop such a chip: an electronically readable mini-organ.

The floating city as an ecosystem

Floating construction: several municipalities in the Netherlands are working with it on a small scale. TU Delft alumnus Rutger de Graaf of the YesDelft company DeltaSync would like to speed things up with his Blue Revolution.

Islands of clean energy

In a period of two months, TU Delft alumnus Allard van Hoeken gave around 100 interviews in response to the introduction of Bluetec and winning the Dutch KIVI Engineering Award. He was happy to do it, because he is an engineer with a message.