Are you interested in the perspective of humans living and working on the Moon? Do you want to contribute to developing technology and new insights in what it takes to settle on the Moon? Than join this thesis lab where we strive for a holistic approach to living and working in space by transferring technologies from terrestrial to extraterrestrial applications and vice versa.
Mirroring the interdisciplinary nature of space settling projects where architects, roboticists, and space scientists work together to achieve common goals, this new inter-faculty graduation course; Lunar Architecture and Infrastructure (LA&I), is designed to foster collaboration among students from various faculties. It has been developed at TU Delft and is now open to all Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) Space students interested in addressing challenges of settling in space with particular focus on robotic construction and operation while heavily relying on In-situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) and discrete automation.
Learn more about this lab on the TU Delft web page Lunar Architecture and Infrastructure.
At the moment there are five concrete graduation projects for which we are looking for interested students:
- Architecture and the Built Environment and Mechanical Engineering,
- Aerospace Engineering,
- Electrical Engineering,
- Mathematics and Computer Science,
- Industrial Design and Engineering.
But we are also welcoming students from other studies at Leiden, Delft & Erasmus Universities to take part in this lab with a a thesis topic from your discipline, relevant for the overall challenge of living and working on the Moon. Applications from disciplines ranging from astronomy, law, management, and economics, to biology, biomedical sciences, psychology, social and behavioural sciences are also very welcome.
If you are interested to join, please feel free to contact contact Henriette Bier and Peter Batenburg with your own proposal for a thesis.