The first week of September, I attended the ESREL conference (European Conference on Safety and Reliability). The conference was held in Southampton this year, where the weather was unexpectedly warm and nice. Southampton is an old harbour city in the south of the United Kingdom.

We kindly invite you to the Airport Technology Lab* Showcase & Hackaton event, where we will be presenting two exciting days filled with insightful presentations and engaging roundtable discussions. The ATL is a digital driven fieldlab at RTHA in which different parties can jointly develop and test new products and services. TU Delft (AE, EEMCS, IDE) has been actively involved from the start. The event will take place on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 June at Albeda Rotterdam The Hague Airport College in Rotterdam.

I'm Marta Ribeiro and I come from Portugal. I moved to the Netherlands late 2014. I am currently an Assistant Professor at Air Transport and Operations (ATO) at TUDelft, where I explore artificial intelligence/machine learning methods to improve aircraft operations.

Alessandro Bombelli awarded funding in the Aula, TU Delft. context of the Open Education Stimulation Fund 2022 to develop interactive learning material for Operations Research courses.

In the third week of January, I attended the two-day LNMB conference with Simon van Oosterom. LNMB, an abbreviation for the very complicated Dutch name “Landelijk Network Mathematische Besliskunde”, is a network that organizes courses for Dutch master and PhD students on Operations Research (OR) and Optimization.

Dr. Juseong Lee successfully defended his Doctoral thesis on December 7th at the Aula, TU Delft.

Last 30 of November, the ATO group had a nice surprise from Sinterklaas and its helpers. The group celebrated Sinterklaas in a fun (leuk) and pleasant (gezellige) atmosphere.

Bruno Santos received the TRA VISIONS 2022 Senior Researcher Award Airborne earlier this month at the TRA Conference in Lisbon. Bruno’s work as the coordinator of the EC Horizon 2020 ReMap project was perhaps the major contribution to his award.

This summer two of our PhD students at ATO have received prizes in the Anna Valicek student paper competition at the Annual Symposium of AGIFORS (the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies) for the work they performed on airport operations.

PhD candidates Juseong Lee and Ingeborg de Pater, and their supervisor Dr. Mihaela Mitici have won the Best Paper Award (2nd Prize) at the 7th European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2022 (PHM Europe).