I am a 25 year old space engineering student (atm in Bremen, DE), this blog is about things that I find worth sharing.
First female dean of the Aerospace faculty in Delft.
Hester Bijl has been appointed as the new dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Out of the 8 deans at the TU Delft, Bijl will be the third woman. She will start her work on the 15th of April in a field that is notorious for its unequal share of women, only 10% of the student population at this faculty is women.
Hester Bijl, with her full title Mrs. prof. dr. ir. drs. Hester Bijl, studied mathematics (in Delft) after which she started a PhD. in computational fluid dynamics. At the same time she got a degree in English in Leiden. After a short interval working in industry she started her scientific work at the chair of aerodynamics in Delft in 1999. In 2006 she was appointed as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor, a chair which aims to promote young scientists at an early age. This appointment made her the first female professor at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
Often she is describe as a cheerful, open and inspirational person. The mother of two lives with the motto ‘Try to get as much out of your life as possible.’ She aims to develop ideas into the future. A future which she tries to better with her involvement in green energy institutes as the director of the Delft Energy Initiative and as a member on teh supervisory board of ECN (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands).
In my bachelor I have taken several courses in which she lectured. She always managed to interest the people on the subject at hand. Bijl strives to realise an environment where everyone can reach its fullest potential.
In her new job Bijl would like to make her faculty top class in the world:”First of all, I would like to strengthen our connections to the world at large. We make a difference with our first-class education and our relevant research. And we can do even more.”
Swan in the snow - Olympus trip, Delft, January 2012
Photo by me
Winter is coming and my friends and I talked about the ice and snow to come. It reminded me of last January, there was enough ice on the channel in front of my house to skate, and everyone did. It was great!
photo: mine, taken with Olympus trip, January 2012, Delft
Here is a promotional video explaining Mars One, the project I talked about in a previous post.
The study association of the aerospace faculty of the TU Delft (Delft University of technology) have set up a contest in cooperation with KLm and Space Expedition Curacao were the students can win a ticket to space, and I am one of those students.
To enter the competition I have to write a 500 words essay about which concept will have fundamentally changed the aerospace industry in the year 2040. Naturally my mind has been occupied by this question ever since. Does anyone have any inspiration?
TEDxDelft - Lodewijk van den Berg - How a crystal growth scientist became an astronaut
TEDxDelft - Rolf Hut - I am a tinkerer
For all Dutch space enthusiasts. The VSV Leonarda Da Vinci will organize a symposium on march the 8th about the search for life in Delft. The day before workshops will be organised with NLR and Dutchspace
