TPM Energy Transition Lab Master thesis circle
The TPM Energy Transition Lab offers positions in its Master Thesis Circle to give students from different master programs (Engineering and Policy Analysis, Complex Systems Engineering and Management, Management of Technology, and Industrial Ecology) the opportunity to participate in and contribute to the several research projects of TPM Energy Transition Lab.
Be on the forefront of energy transition research
We invite ambitious, creative students with excellent research skills - and who are enthusiastic about working with other students on interdisciplinary energy research! - to take a look at our research projects and apply. Individual projects and assignments for the Master Thesis Circle will be published here when available.
Themes and supervision
The thesis circle is limited to five students and explicitly linked to TPM Energy Transition Lab’s research themes: “Capturing behavior in the energy transition" (main supervisor: Gerdien de Vries), “Design of the energy transition” (main supervisor Emile Chappin), and: “Policy innovation in the energy transition” (currently closed, main supervisor: Nihit Goyal). Energy researchers from all departments of TPM will be involved in supervision, depending on the expertise needed for specific research projects. Any thesis research project in the circle is expected to be on the forefront of energy transition research, contribute to the understanding of the energy transition.
To be involved
There are two ways to be part of the thesis circle. First, there are a limited number of available projects (listed below for current projects). Follow the respective links and reach out to the contact person mentioned. Secondly, we are open to your creative ideas that fit well to the lab. For applying with your own idea, we ask you to develop a short, crisp, one-page proposal with the problem statement, knowledge gap, research question and sub questions, method or approach, and expected results. From your short proposal it should be clear why and how it links to the lab’s themes and why this is on the forefront of energy transition research. All research proposals are discussed by the Lab’s management team and a selection is made on the quality of proposals and the available positions in the lab. You can send your application to our email address: EnergyTransitionLab-TPM@tudelft.nl.
Current master thesis students
Fleur Meijer
MSc programme: Complex Systems Engineering & Management (CoSEM)
Former master thesis students
Julie van den Brink
MSc programme: Engineering & Policy Analysis
Thesis: An exploratory analysis of the societal impacts of demand congestion
Osman Düzgün
MSc programme: Management of Technology
Guarav Khalegoankar
MSc programme: Sustainable energy technology (Solar-Power-Economics cluster)
Nathalia Ortiz Torres
MSc programme: Sustainable Energy Technology
Yassir Ouaj
MSc programme: Complex Systems Engineering and Management
Thesis: Expoloring the Determinants of AIr Travelers' Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Sterre van der Kaaij
MSc programme: Complex Systems Engineering and Management (T&L track)
Ben Turner
MSc programme: Complex Systems Engineering and Management (ICT Track)
Jaewook Seol
MSc programme: Engineering & Policy Analysis
Thesis: Improving policy design: The behavioural levers of work-life balance policies in the Netherlands
Penghui Fan
MSc programme: Complex System Engineering (CoSEM)
Rory Hooper
MSc programme: Engineering & Policy Analysis
Mihail Deligrozev
MSc program: Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA)
Thesis: Understanding forest biomass energy policy mix impact on energy poverty
Dimitrios Symeonidis
MSc programme: Engineering & Policy Analysis
Eva van Hilten
MSc programme: Engineering & Policy Analysis
Thesis: Why corporates join the Science Based Targets initiative
Merel Schumacher
MSc programme: Complex Systems Engineering and Management (Energy Track)
Thesis: Materializing the Demand Response Potential from Heat Pumps in the Netherlands in 2050
Lisette ten Boske
MSc programme: Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA)
Thesis: A quantitative analysis of user participation in demand response in a future electricity network
Florian Hasselink
MSc programme: Complex Systems Engineering and Management (Energy Track)
Ruben van der Ende
MSc programme: Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA)
Thesis: Dutch energy consumer preferences for the adoption of sustainable residential heating technologies
Luuk van Breugel
MSc programme: Management of Technology
Thesis: Consensus in technology selection for small modular reactors
Naomi Hubert
MSc programme: Industrial Ecology
Thesis: Individual and contextual barriers to solar self-consumption
Tormo Scherer
MSc program: Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM)
Thesis: "It is just too much hassle!"