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01 April 2021

TU Delft and NFI join forces to innovate forensic research

How does a person fall after jumping or being pushed? How can you effectively investigate a crime scene? These are just some examples of the joint research currently being conducted by TU Delft and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI).

14 December 2020

'Safety is part of almost all technology development'

With TU Delft Safety & Security Institute, he wants to make the Netherlands and the whole world safer. Why is safety so important for technology philosopher Behnam Taebi? (article is in Dutch)

14 December 2020

Femke Vossepoel, member of TU Delft Safety & Security Institute’s Executive Board, and Associate Professor in Geoscience and Engineering (CEG), explains how data assimilation tools can be used to improve COVID-19 forecasting models.

In the podcast, she talks about various aspects of her life as a data scientist.

14 December 2020

Behnam Taebi talks about geo-engineering in this NRC podcast (in Dutch)

13 October 2020

Police, TNO and TU Delft join forces on national security innovation

The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Dutch police force and TU Delft, headed by the TU Safety & Security Institute, are to begin collaboration on innovation in the field of national security. The three organisations are well acquainted, and already collaborate on a number of Safety & Security matters, such as detection, monitoring and cyber security.

24 September 2020

TU Delft Safety & Security Institute Seed Funding – Deadline October 30, 2020

The TU Delft Safety & Security Institute aims to strengthen the position and increase the impact of Safety & Security research and education by providing seed funding for relevant transdisciplinary collaborative activities at TU Delft.

08 September 2020

New land subsidence map reveals the Netherlands’ (in)stability

Lopsided houses, subsiding streets, shifting dykes and nature reserves stricken by drought.
In the years ahead, there will need to be some serious investment in maintenance by citizens, businesses and government.

16 June 2020

Help from an unexpected quarter: geosciences data techniques can help predict corona spread

An international team of scientists, among whom Femke Vossepoel of TU Delft Safety & Security Institute’s Executive Board, is studying the possibility of using data assimilation, a data technique from geosciences, to predict the spread of coronavirus and the efficacy of certain measures. TU Delft geoscientists on the team think that data assimilation might prove a useful tool for the RIVM epidemiologists. A paper on the subject has been submitted to scientific journal Foundations of Data Science.