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Blame culture an obstacle to safety in the chemical sector

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Motorway speed limits of 100 km/h largely advantageous

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Breaking habits for a green world

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Resilient water management in India through adaptive policy analysis

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Grants for research on energy transition in Delft

Energy transition is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The transition to sustainable energy is complex and requires change at multiple levels. Three Delft research groups, with an grant from NWO, will conduct research into system integration within the energy transition.

TU Delft develops helpful cost guidelines for carbon capture

Het afvangen en opslaan van CO2 is een van de vele technologieën die nodig zijn om klimaatverandering tegen te gaan. De technologie is beschikbaar en wordt al in diverse projecten toegepast, maar nog niet op wereldwijde schaal toegepast. Het gebrek aan kennis over de kosten van CO2-afvang en -opslag (CCS) kan ertoe leiden dat investeerders zich terugtrekken. Een wereldwijd consortium van twaalf onderzoekers op het gebied van CCS, onder leiding van Andrea Ramirez van de TU Delft, heeft samengewerkt aan een uitgebreide whitepaper. Het whitepaper helpt te begrijpen hoe de kosten van projecten voor CO2-afvang en -opslag correct kunnen worden geraamd.

Nitesh Bharosa appointed as GovTech professor at TPM

We are proud to announce that TPM alumnus Nitesh Bharosa will start as full professor of "GovTech & Innovation in Digital Government Ecosystems" at TPM on 15 May 2021. This 5 year part-time professorship is funded by Digicampus (www.digicampus.tech), where Bharosa has also been appointed as scientific director.

NWO awards 10 million euros for solving cyber security issues

Within the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) programme “Cyber Security”, five consortia will work on finding solutions related to internet security. TU Delft is involved in four of the consortia. Three projects will focus on governance, and two will also focus on cryptologic aspects. The total research budget amounts to circa 10 million euros. Professor Michel van Eeten is leading the project ‘THESEUS: Making patching happen’. Other TPM researchers that are involved are Simon Parkin, Kate Labunets en Kevin Borgolte.

How do Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB panellists feel about social routing systems?

"Motorists should make a short detour once a week, so that we are all less stuck in traffic". That is the statement in Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB magazine De Kampioen this month. The proposition was submitted by the TPM research group ERC-BEHAVE led by Caspar Chorus. This group conducts research into social routing systems, which the ANWB found an interesting idea.

How does the dark web work? Rolf van Wegberg explains!

Perhaps you know the stories about ordering drugs with bitcoins in three clicks, applying for a fake passport, or ordering weapons: you can do it all at the dark web. But how does the dark web work? And how come the police cannot catch you there?

TU Delft and NFI join forces to innovate forensic research

How does someone fall down after a push or jump? How to do good research at a crime scene? Can a computer model determine the time of death? And how do you get all traces out of a phone in a good way? These are just a few examples of studies that TU Delft and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) are conducting together. Today, the collaboration has been strengthened by signing a joint "Memorandum of Understanding".

TPM advises Delta Programme

Over the course of the coming months, the policy analysis section will be advising the Dutch Delta Programme on the further development of Adaptive Delta Management. Since 2010, the Delta Programme has been responsible for adapting the Dutch water management and flood risks system to climate change and sea level rise.

New publication: Journal of Integrated Security and Safety Science

We are proud to present the new Journal of Integrated Security and Safety Science. An open access journal in which you can freely read and publish innovative papers that offer a significant contribution - conceptual, theoretical, methodological, or empirical - to all areas of physical security and safety in industries and infrastructures.

Novel disaster communication system empowers communities and can save lives

Een bijna lege telefoon kan bij rampen het verschil betekenen tussen leven en dood. TU Delft onderzoeker Indushree Banerjee heeft daarom een nieuw energie-efficiënt en betrouwbaar noodcommunicatiesysteem ontworpen voor smartphones. Het systeem maximaliseert het aantal mensen dat gedurende een langere periode kan communiceren en kan daarmee levens redden in getroffen gebieden.

Climate Resilience expert professor Tatiana Filatova joins TPM

We are pleased to announce that professor Tatiana Filatova will be joining our faculty as of the 1st of April 2021. She is an authority in the field of computational agent-based models designed to explore climate resilience of coupled socio-technical-environmental systems. She is appointed as full professor computational economics at the MAS department.

New Mooc on ethical dilemmas professional engineering

A new free online course on ethical dilemmas in professional engineering is launched on 16 March. TPM researcher Pieter Vermaas explains how engineers worldwide can deal with ethical dilemmas. These can include conflicts of interests, bribery, whistle-blowing and inadequate information about potential negative effects of products and technologies.

New Mooc on ethical dilemmas professional engineering

A new free online course on ethical dilemmas in professional engineering is launched on 16 March. TPM researcher Pieter Vermaas explains how engineers worldwide can deal with ethical dilemmas. These can include conflicts of interests, bribery, whistle-blowing and inadequate information about potential negative effects of products and technologies.

Attention to ethics in Tech for Health campaign

TPM faculty researcher Samantha Copeland wants to make ethics visible and discussable at the interface of technology and medicine. The goal: to achieve responsible and sustainable innovation in healthcare. Her research is part of the TU Delft campaign Tech for Health | Better care thanks to Delft technology.

Corona proof dining out with online tool

Scientists of Wageningen University & Research, TU Delft and Erasmus MC have developed an online tool that helps determine how indoor spaces can be designed and used corona proof. With the OpenSmartTogether tool, restaurant owners can limit the risks of the spreading of the coronavirus in their restaurant. The researchers are inviting restaurant owners to participate in an online pilot.

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Artificial Intelligence | Digital Society

Artificial intelligence with a moral compass

The rapid development of artificial intelligence brings its own set of new ethical challenges. In her PhD research, Andreia Martinho is trying to bring the ultra-theoretical world of ethics and the practice of artificial intelligence closer together.

Responsible Innovation

'It's the practical choices you make that shape your moral values, not the other way round'

What moral choices do we make during the coronavirus crisis and why? Researcher Caspar Chorus discusses taboos, moral lullabies and misconceptions about the foundations of our behaviour.

Responsible Innovation

'The lines of contact were suddenly a lot shorter because of coronavirus'

TPM student Zara-Vé van Tetterode was chair of the Delft Student Council when coronavirus arrived. She is very positive about the cooperation with the Executive Board during the crisis, but she also sees how coronavirus threatens the mental health of students.

Climate Action | Responsible Innovation

Designing for darkness

Days are short in December and January, but this does not mean darkness sets in early in the Netherlands. On cloudy nights, light pollution turns the night sky of Delft a bright orange. Let’s start designing for darkness, Dr Taylor Stone proposes in his research.

Artificial intelligence | Digital society | Responsible innovation

Intelligent chatbots as anxiety counsellors

Chatbots, on eHealth apps, have the potential to support people suffering from anxiety and other mental disorders. However, today’s chatbots still need to be sufficiently developed. For her Master’s thesis, Maria Chiara Mazza investigated how recognising students' linguistic patterns and personality could help improve the workings of personalized-chatbots. Her thesis secured her election as the Best Graduate in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.

Disasters | Urbanisation & Mobility

Blame culture an obstacle to safety in the chemical sector

Everyone knows small mistakes can have large consequences. Yet when things go wrong in the chemical industry the results can be disastrous, as the recent incident in Beirut shows. Genserik Reniers, Professor of Safety of Hazardous Materials at TU Delft, wants to put safety on the map better than today, in order for human suffering and economic losses to be minimised as much as possible: ‘There's a lot we can achieve relatively easy.’

Climate Action | Energy Transition

Breaking habits for a green world

We separate our waste, take shorter showers and there has been an increase in roof-mounted solar panels. Climate psychologist at TU Delft Gerdien de Vries, sees that in the Netherlands we are trying to put our greenest foot forward.

Digital Society | Responsible Innovation

This is how digital voice assistants influence your life

Voice assistants, like Alexa or Google Home are taking over households, in the USA anyway, where one in four households owns at least one device. These assistants that promise to make your life so much easier seem harmless, but are they really? TU Delft researcher Olya Kudina is not so sure: ‘They do impact our lives and not only in a good way.’

Responsible Innovation | Serious Gaming

Using persuasive games to improve work atmosphere

Cultural diversity and a mixture of people with different specialisations in a workplace can boost creativity and effectiveness. It can also lead to misunderstandings, stereotyping and misconception. TU Delft researcher Rens Kortmann studies what persuasive games can do to change that.

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TPM in the media

08 June 2021

Tina Comes in Horizon Magazine about segregation caused by Covid-19 pandemic

Tina Comes explains that segregation caused by the Covid19 pandemic can have serious implications.

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31 May 2021

Bas Kolen in Trouw over Fieldlab testevenementen

“Zolang de besmettingsrisico’s niet hoger zijn dan wanneer iemand thuis zit en sporadisch naar de supermarkt gaat, achten wij een evenement veilig genoeg”, zegt risico-analist Bas Kolen van de TU Delft over de vraag of evenementen weer plaats kunnen vinden met coronadreiging. Deze conclusie volgt uit onderzoek van Fieldlab evenementen.

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06 May 2021

Bas Kolen in Sciencemag over test events

Field experiments are being held in the Netherlands to see whether concerts and other events can be held safely in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Agenda

June

17
Thesis defence

Thesis defence P.P. van de Coevering
17

Annual PowerWeb conference ‘High Performance Simulation of Multi-Energy Networks’
18

Lunch lecture: Hydraulic Engineering in Argentina
23
Thesis defence

Thesis defence H.R. Goosensen
25

Lunch lecture: Creating a New Perspective by Integrating Frames Through Design

July

06

e-Refinery Lecture: The effect of the electric double layer in electrochemistry
07
Thesis defence

Thesis defence W. Qu
09
Thesis defence

Thesis defence K. Poplavskaya

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