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Breakthrough achievement paves the way for practical quantum internet applications

In Nature Communications, a team of scientists led by TU Delft presents new insights into the complex nature of phase transitions in magnetic nanomaterials.

During the Best Climate Action & Energy Paper Award ceremony – taking place on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – nine young scientists from TU Delft will pitch their research findings. Nine fresh insights, and sometimes even groundbreaking ideas, that not only tackle today’s problems but also make tomorrow’s world safer, cleaner, and more resilient.

The TU Delft Digital Ethics Centre will advise the World Health Organization (WHO) on ethical aspects and laws and regulations surrounding AI in healthcare. On 6 March, the Delft research centre will receive accreditation: after which it will officially be a WHO Collaboration Centre in the field of Ethics and Governance of AI in Healthcare.

TU Delft is expanding its space research capabilities with the launch of four new and upgraded Space Engineering laboratories. These state-of-the-art facilities will provide researchers, students, and industry partners with advanced tools to push the boundaries of space exploration, planetary science, and satellite technology.

TU Delft’s Executive Board has appointed Prof. Cokky Hilhorst as Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management (TPM), effective 1 May 2025. She is currently a Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Faculty Expertise Centre for Accounting, Auditing & Control at Nyenrode Business University.

TU Delft celebrates lecturers who advocate for openness in education, sharing knowledge and resources with the world and creating a more inclusive and collaborative academic community.

The board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences awards funding to six research projects through the Open Technology Programme. Three of the these six proposals have been awarded to Delft researchers. In total, NWO is funding the projects with 4.5 million euros, companies involved and other organisations are investing 760 thousand euros.

Today, Nele Albers defends her doctoral dissertation on using AI coaches to help smokers quit smoking and vaping. She developed an AI coach that uses psychologically informed Reinforcement Learning (RL), a form of machine learning in which a model learns through rewards, similar to how humans learn behaviors. Albers based her research on insights from behavior change theories and data from three large-scale studies with more than 500 participants each. 

A group of researchers from TU Delft and the Institute for Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center have been able to the determinate the Mars’s interior structure and the age of the large ice sheet covering its north pole. They have published their findings in Nature. The team used the same geophysical trick on Mars that geologists use here on Earth to: measure how large areas of land are deformed by the ice sheet that presses down on the planet itself. That in turn says a lot about the material and structure underneath all that ice.