🧱 Imagine if cracks in brick walls could heal by themselves – with a little help from bacteria. Researcher Belen Gaggero is testing this very possibility, and her results are promising so far. 👉https://www.tudelft.nl/en/stories/articles/buildings-that-fix-themselves
Shadi Sharif Azadeh has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, to ensure our mobility network keeps pace with the times. Shadi aims to better understand the dynamics of decisions in the planning of the mobility system and the changes they bring about👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
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Louise Nuijens had been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant! Tropical oceans and stormy atmospheres influence one another. Using Lake Victoria as an analogue, she will conduct extensive measurements aimed at improving weather and climate predictions👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
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By making smart use of all available data, flood warnings can in the future be issued with greater accuracy. The research is published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
Read more on our website👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
Or read paper 👉https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/6715/2025/
Nathalie Rombeek reconstructed the cause of the devastating floods in Valencia last year, using data from 225 personal weather stations, installed by residents at home. The network of personal weather stations is much denser than that of national meteorological services.
The “cloud laboratory” turns out not to be a castle in the sky! With the ERC Synergy grant, scientists, including Pier Siebesma of TU Delft, will study clouds and their impact on global warming. 👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
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🎉 Very proud that 5 researchers at our faculty are granted a #Vidi by NWO!
Congratulations to Anne Pluymakers, Davide Wüthrich, Eleni Papadonikolaki, Maria Pregnolato and Michele Laureni!
What are they up to? 👉https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg/five-ceg-researchers-receive-vidi-grant
🌊 New in our Hydraulic Engineering lab at TU Delft!
The Delta Transport Processes Laboratory (DTP-Lab) enables researchers to study the effect of the Earth’s rotation (Coriolis force) on ocean waves and currents, e.g. plastic litter transportation under the influence of waves in a rotating system.
She demonstrates that drastic reduction of emissions can stabilise the ice sheet. The results are published today in Nature Climate Change: www-nature-com.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/articles/s41...
Researchers of TU Delft developed a new evolving ‘fracture map’ of Antarctica, based on satellite images. This enabled them to explore how damage may evolve under different warming scenarios. Maaike Izeboud developed the method during her phd.
Read the open access scientific paper 'Global geo-hazard risk assessment of long-span bridges enhanced with InSAR availability' in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite data can improve safety for critical infrastructure. Hard data shows that the majority of the world's long-span bridges are suitable for monitoring from space. A great benefit in regions, such as Africa and Oceania, where on-site sensors are nearly absent.
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🚰 Drinking water from the tap may seem like a given, but the surface water and even ground water that serves as the source of our drinking water is heavily polluted. To purify it, TU Delft researchers are working on smart solutions.
Roos Goedhart explains! (dutcht)
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The #Zeelandbrug, once Europe’s longest bridge, is subject to scientific tests to investigate its state of health. Eliz-Mari Lourens is proud to improve the structural model of the iconic bridge with innovative measurements and #monitoring. Read her Story of Science 👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/stories/a...
From the air, the patterns looked strange. To understand the hydrodynamics of this unusual lake, he and his fellow enthusiasts jumped on the plane to observe the sediment with his own eyes and map out ancient coastlines with observations from a small airplane.
In the middle of the Australian outback lies the, usually dry, Lake Eyre. Last time it filled up was in 1974. Joep Storms noticed something remarkable on sattelite images: dry riverbeds were filling with water, sand and clay. 👉
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The sand engine (Zandmotor) mitigates flood risk and creates an appealing recreational ecosystem. TRT World visited The Netherlands to make an episode on flood defence, with our experts Lindsey Schwidder, Sierd de Vries, Romy Hulskamp and Daan Hulskemper. Check it out! youtu.be/GM6dGhzY3D8
Renske Gelderloos and Mukund Gupta both receive funding to investigate climate effects in the Arctic. Glaciers and sea ice are rapidly receding, affecting ocean currents. The effect of the melting ice on the ocean and viceversa has impact on climate and sea level rise.
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For someone with a disability using public transport can be a challenge.
A new consortium, led by Yan Feng, aims to tackle public transport accessibility through eXtended Reality.
The project BRIDGE-XR is funded by NWO KIC and a collaboration with over thirty partners. www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
Five promising researchers of our faculty CEG receive a #Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council NWO. All are working towards a safe and sustainable living environment. Congratulations Yan Feng, Yi Li, Irene Martínez, Sara Porchetta and Ranjith Soman!
👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
Branko Šavija has been awarded a @erc.europa.eu Proof of Concept Grant for deformable concrete composites.
Branko is developing an innovative solution for controlled deformation of infrastructure: auxetic cementitious composites.
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🌬️ Oriol Colomés and Alexander Heinlein received an NWO Open Technology Program grant. They develop a computational framework for innovative monopile foundations for wind turbines at great depths.
👉https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/eemcs/increasing-the-resilience-of-wind-turbines-with-mathematics
Sanne Smith aims to remove PFAS in existing water purification systems. Foam plays an important role in her attempts to remove as much PFAS as possible from the wastewater. PFAS molecules bind to air bubbles and hitch a ride towards the surface and end up in the foam.
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🚰 Dutch drinking water is among the cleanest in the world. To keep it that way, Kim Lompe is developing treatment technologies to remove new contaminants such as #nanoplastics and #PFAS.
By using new materials, Kim can corner and capture the pesky pollutants.
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“The most important thing is that we decouple our drinking water system from the whims of nature”, says Doris van Halem, Professor Drinking Water Quality & Treatment @tudelftwm.bsky.social
Read this double interview,
together with Neelke Doorn, Professor Ethics of Water Engineering.
High temperatures today and we’ve already had a long period of drought. Drinking water always seemed completely self-evident in NL. But it’s not.
Although the Dutch focus has traditionally been on how to keep water out, we need to focus more on storing water.
👉 www.tudelft.nl/en/stories/a...
