Rolf Hut
I am a scientist at Delft University of Technology. I solve my problems using a MacGyver attitude. I build measurement devices using scavanged parts from consumer-electronics. I connect existing online data sources to answer relevant scientific questions. I encourage my students to learn by discovering, building and doing.
I am a restless jack of all trades that likes to organize and run events. I am a public speaker on science and technology. I write a monthly column in the Dutch national newspaper "De Volkskrant". I host workshops for audiences ranging from festival-goers to primary school kids. My workshops show, hands-on, that technology is fun and that technology is for everyone, not only for beta-nerds. I am, most of all, endlessly curious.
On this website I post blogs and news related to my work. If I do not own my own work, I will provide a link to it. Science related blogs on this site are aimed at a general audience. For my scientific publications, please follow me on researchgate or look at my TU Delft page.
If you want to book me for a lecture, public event or workshop, please email me at rolf@rolfhut.nl or contact me on twitter: @rolfhut.
Recent blogs and news
Last summer, I wrote this blog to encourage people who want to become "makers", to start with copying other peoples work. Last week, when I worked on the "LEGO-Copy-Machine" together with Felienne, I realised that my LEGO skills could use some dusting off. Therefore, I decided to copy work from [...]
So how were the holidays? More specifically, how was talking to family members not seen in ages? How was "what do you do again?" What to answer? Do I bore them with the memory saving hacks I employ to reduce the computational load of a data assimilation scheme in the context of a global [...]