Joop Roodenburg ‘We should start producing intelligent structures again’ JULY YEAR DELFT NO. 2 2019 36 OUTLOOK PHAGE LIBRARY Fighting bacterial infections Home-grown design professors Focus on sustainability in design THEME To the moon NO.2 2 JULY 2019 3 Cover: Taking a photo of the moon together with a piece of a university building Foreword requires some planning. Fortunately there are apps that indicate the position of the moon. Just before sunrise the Tim van der Hagen moon is located in the right corner and low above the horizon, and around that time you can also see the contours DELFT IN BRIEF of buildings. Luckily, at the same 04 time the clouds disappear. (Photo: Sam Rentmeester) AFTER DELFT Sharing ideas KOEN VAN DOREMAELE 28 22 We like to keep you, our alumni, Quantum Vision team presented informed about the latest its findings. They looked at the THE FIRM developments at your alma mater. impact the emergence of quantum FRANKENDAEL Joop Roodenburg Not necessarily to show you all internet will have on industry 29 Alumnus of the year the amazing things happening on and society. Because, to the best campus – although we do enjoy of their knowledge, there is a PROCESS & ENERGY LAB doing that, too – but because lot we cannot predict when it 34 sharing knowledge and exchanging comes to brand-new technology. MARINA VAN DAMME ideas is so important. Knowledge That's why it's vital for us to come WINNERS that you need to keep up with together and think about these 36 your field, or that can help you issues now, and we hope you will progress within your company. help us. In the future, too, we will VISION ON QUANTUM Your ideas that we can use to continue to involve you in major 38 ensure our research matches issues that affect everyone – from day-to-day practice. This way, climate change to cyber security. ALUMNUS together we form a community of Incidentally, some of our scientists ARNOLD DE JAGER Delft engineers who are striving to believe this future lies in other ‘OUR STUDENTS ARE GOING TO BE ALRIGHT’ create a better society. galaxies. As such, this issue puts 40 The occasional meeting is the spotlight on space research in 26 also part of that. Delft. ALUMNI NEWS It was great being able to welcome 42 Conny Bakker en Ruth Mugge so many of you to the TU Delft for Professor Tim van der Hagen, Professors in sustainable design Life|Xperience day on 4 June. President Executive Board On that day, the TU Delft COLOPHON Cover photo Sam Rentmeester Page 07 Editorial staff Saskia Bonger (editor-in-chief), Dorine van Gorp, Katja Wijnands To the moon (managing editors), Tomas van Dijk, Sam Rentmeester (image editor), Connie van Uffelen, Marjolein van der Veldt, Jos Wassink T +31 (0) 15 2784848, E-mail [email protected] Contributing writers Agaath Diemel, Auke Herrema, Mirjam van der Ploeg 30 Stephan Timmers, Davide Zanon Design Maters en Hermsen Typesetting Saskia de Been, Liesbeth van Dam Phage library Printing Quantes How effective are bacteriophages? Subscriptions [email protected] PHOTO: SAM RENTMEESTER SAM PHOTO: Delft Outlook is the magazine of TU Delft NO.2 4 JULY 2019 5 Tracking surgical instruments DELFT Medical doctor and PhD student Frédérique Meeuwsen worked for two years on a Beautiful bridges test with Radio Frequency Identification In his dissertation ‘The Art of Bridge Design’, the multi- (RFID) tagged surgical instruments. RFID award winning bridge builder Dr Joris Smits (Royal chips can transfer information over a HaskoningDHV and Faculty of ABE) argues for a master distance. They are on, among other things, builder in bridge construction. Such a design integrator bank cards and OV chip card. The chipped is an architect and engineer in one person. Smits IN BRIEF instruments were deployed for the first time himself studied civil engineering and architecture. The during an operation at the Reinier de Graaf combination of both disciplines makes a hospital in Delft. Automatic monitoring of bridge not only strong and reliable, but also an the instruments turned out to be possible. aesthetic addition to the environment. Smits Meeuwsen’ co-supervisor dr.ir. John van mentions ‘The Crossing’ in Nijmegen as a den Dobbelsteen sees this successful example. as a stepping stone to the digital operating room of the future. Climate position paper ia Sam Rentmeester Photo: TU Delft recently published a climate position paper. ed im ik Researchers thought it was time to take action against : W to o h ‘nonsense’ on social media and websites. The text was P written by about 30 Delft researchers and brought together by professors Professor Herman Russchenberg (CEG), Professor Paulien Herder (3mE) and Professor Andy van den Dobbelsteen (ABE). Rector Magnificus Professor Tim The missing part of the sea van der Hagen signed the climate position paper on behalf When painting his Panorama in 1881, of the Executive Board. ‘TU Delft is putting Photo: Panorama Mesdag Panorama Photo: Hendrik Willem Mesdag does not seem all its innovative capacities into promoting to have immortalized part of the view. the global transition to non-fossil fuel energy Ten degrees of sea are missing in the sources and climate adaptation to contend with painting. This is apparent from surveying the warming planet’ it says. measurements carried out by students of the TU under the supervision of Professor Ramon Hanssen (CEG). The students Silicon heart carried out the research for the exhibition Heart failure may be better predicted in the future thanks ‘From the highest point: Surveying in to a transparent silicon imitation heart. Dr. Saša Kenjereš Bye bye glaciers Mesdag's time’ that can be seen until 22 (Applied Sciences) and colleagues from the LUMC, September in Panorama Mesdag in The Erasmus MC and the University of Ghent copied a left The glaciers in the Alps will If the emission of greenhouse ventricle with a 3D printer. It is arithmetic average of lose at least 40 percent of gases ends immediately, almost Hague. In his Panorama, Mesdag tried the hearts of 150 patients at Erasmus MC. The ‘tissue’ their ice in the next 30 years. half will still be lost, their to display the Scheveningen view from piece is connected to a pump and beats like a real heart. Glaciers react with delay to models show. If the average the Seinpostduin (dune) as precisely as The researchers pump a liquid through it with the same global warming, researcher temperature on earth rises by possible. The students viscosity as blood (a mixture of water and glycerol) and Harry Zekollari from the 2 degrees compared were able to find out the added reflective particles to the liquid which Department of Mathematical to the end of the are lit up by a laser. This allows them to map Geodesy and Positioning nineteenth century, two exact place where Mesdag the fluid dynamics in the heart chamber. (CEG) and Swiss colleagues thirds of the ice mass stood while painting. demonstrated in a study. will disappear by 2100. NO.2 6 JULY 2019 7 Aircraft without tail Indian roots Much work is being done at Aerospace Engineering on a new Dr Huib Ekkelenkamp type of aircraft. The Flying-V tailless aircraft integrates the delved into the history cabin, hold and fuel tanks in the wing. Such aircraft, also known of surveying and as blended wings, have often been put forward in recent decades followed the trail back as a more sustainable alternative to traditional passenger aircraft to the Dutch East Indies, To the moon because they are supposed to be lighter and more aerodynamic. where the roots of TU Photo: holechistorie.nl Photo: But they were never taken into production. The Delft aircraft Delft also appear. In his is designed in such a way that it can easily be manufactured in dissertation ‘Indonesia on the map’, he shows On July 21 it will be fifty years ago that Neil Armstrong became various sizes. In October the researchers will show a scale model that surveying until 1800 was the only qualified the first person to set foot on the moon. Following the good (1 in 20) with a wingspan of 3 meters at Schiphol Airport. engineering course. The Dutch method was not immediately usable in Indonesia. The mountain example of the InSight Marslander 88 teams of first-year landscape with volcanoes, the impenetrable mechanical engineering students built their own ‘Marktlander’: forests and swamps, the climate with heavy rains, a Marslander who can take a beating. The assignment was to the higher humidity and temperature demanded build an autonomous moving mechanism that can continue a specific method. Despite this, the Dutch East Indies were largely charted in the period 1850- moving after a fall from table height, and then deliver a block of 1950. ‘gold’ three meters away. The winning Marktlander placed the block just 5.8 millimeters from the three-meter line. Fall preventer e-bike Earthquakes in Groningen A parliamentary inquiry into the earthquakes in Groningen is not yet underway. What was TU Delft’s role? A reconstruction shows that Delft research was not determined by social urgency, but by the availability of research funding. Until 1990, a link between earthquakes and gas extraction was generally denied. The current dean of CEG, Professor Jan Dirk Jansen responds: “The NAM (Dutch exploration and production company), the KNMI (Netherlands Meteorological Instite), the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the National Mines Inspectorate and The TU Delft Bicycle dynamics lab has also the TU have underestimated the earthquakes. Nobody prototyped a steer-assist electric bike to make predicted that it would develop like this.” Only after Minister riding fall-proof.