News & Media Appearances

Daniel Scholten will serve as a member of the interdisciplinary Research Panel that supports the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He is considered an expert in the field, having pioneered the topic of the geopolitics of renewables over the last years, and will support the Commission via research inputs and analyses. Dr. Scholten will cooperate with scholars from Harvard, Columbia, NUPI, Colorado, Boston, and Berlin.

The statement of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) calls for a wide-ranging process of public deliberation and lays out a set of fundamental ethical principles to pave the way. It also forms the cornerstone of the guidelines on AI ethics to be developed in collaboration with the future AI Alliance.

Recent research into career prospects at universities of technology shows that heterogeneity through research orientation, gender and mentors influences academic careers differently. “If universities of technology want female academics to pursue a career, they should take care that women can secure tenured positions and full professorships in the same way as their male counterparts. Another recommendation for both male and female academics is to bridge between the quest for fundamental understanding and socio-economic relevance to attain career success”, says Claudia Werker, associate professor at TU Delft, who wrote a paper on this subject.

The LDE Centre for Safety and Security has recently started a new MOOC on ‘Risk in Modern Society’. The course has been developed in collaboration with scholars from three universities (Leiden, Delft and Erasmus). Sabine Roeser, Genserik Reniers and Pieter van Gelder of TPM teach in this course. This course will search for answers to questions such as: “what is risk?”, “how do we study and deal with risk?”, “does ‘perceived risk’ correspond to 'real' risk?”, and “how should we deal with societal perceptions of risk, safety and security?

Nederland beleeft weer hoogconjunctuur, alle seinen voor 2018 staan op groen, juichen de voorspellingen. Maar hoe zit het met de CO2-uitstoot. Is die groei al een beetje groen? 'CO2-uitstoot daalt niet met economische groei', geeft Servaas Storm aan.

Het was weer raak in Groningen. Het aantal schademeldingen is opgelopen naar 600. De onrust is groot en de roep om de gaskraan zo snel mogelijk helemaal dicht te draaien weer luider. Maar kan dat wel? Waar gaan we ons gas dan vandaan halen? Is dat een garantie dat er geen aardbevingingen meer in het gebied gaan voorkomen? En kan minister Wiebes waarmaken om de gaswinning zo snel mogelijk af te bouwen?