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An overview of the most important awards, appointments and other remarkable personal milestones at TU Delft.
The excellent quality of our drinking water sector may be under threat from company takeovers, cutbacks and the erosion of expertise. Thus argued Professor Hans van Dijk (Drinking Water Supply) in his valedictory address in September, in which he looked back at developments in the drinking water sector over the last 40 years.
Professor Marcel Stive (Hydraulic Engineering) was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.9 million euros by the EU. Over the next five years he will use this funding to enable better predictions to be made about coastal changes. Current models are still too elementary. He aims to catalogue the physical processes involved on a smaller scale, using satellite and video observation.
After ten years, the department of Ship Hydromechanics and Structures (3mE) once again has a professor: Professor Mirek Kaminski, the Dutch shipping and offshore industry. “Our students’ knowledge regarding the construction of ships and offshore facilities has gradually deteriorated over the years. The industry wants to turn this trend around,” said Prof. Kaminski in Delta.
According to the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LHNV), she really shines in her field, which is why Professor Nynke Dekker of the department of Bionanoscience (Applied Sciences) was awarded a certificate and 5,000 euros by the LHNV.
Professor Kees van Weeren could hardly have wished for a better case study for research and teaching-purposes than the fire at the faculty of Architecture. This autumn the professor of Structural Design bade farewell. During his valedictory address, he spoke at length about the fire. According to him, “there are few large fires whose progress has been so closely monitored.”
In the world of wind energy he is known as the Smart Rotor Professor. In late October, professor of Wind Energy, Gijs van Kuik, was awarded the EAWE Science Award by the European Academy of Wind Energy. The academy presents this annual award to scientists who have made a significant contribution to wind energy research.
Dr Bert Geerken has been appointed the new dean of the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Geerken studied Applied Sciences at the University of Twente. He is presently the acting managing director of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Prior to that he was the general director of Naturalis.
As of 1 December, Annemieke Wisse will be the new director of YesDelft. Among other positions, she was previously the director of New Venture, the national business plan competition. Wisse will lay the foundation for the further development of YesDelft, which is in her eyes the formula for success for hightech start-ups.
