Author Archives: Esther Holten Miedema

With lots of pleasure we would like to invite you to the defense of one of our Participatory Systems Lab Members Geertje Slingerland of her PhD thesis entitled “Together we make places: Designing connections in urban spaces” on Friday 18 … Continue reading →

Job description (Tenure Track with focus on education: 60% teaching, 20% research, 20% organization and management) The Faculty of Technology Policy and Management invites candidates for a Tenure Track position as an assistant professor within the Systems Engineering Group. The … Continue reading →

Prof.dr.F.M.Brazier will give a Keynote at the 7th IEEE International Symposium of System Engineering. Virtual, starts September 13th. “Embracing complexity” Complexity is a challenge with which all designers and engineers of complex socio-technical systems are confronted. This challenge is key … Continue reading →

ABSTRACT Participation has been proposed to improve agricultural extension programmes in developing countries. This paper reports on experience with COCREATE, an approach to agricultural extension programmes that supports agricultural chain actors in self-directed learning in action research with smallholder farmers … Continue reading →

TPM on Stage: When disaster strikes Speakers • Aukje Hassoldt – Kick-off • Indushree Banerjee – Fair emergency communication system • Tina Comes – resilience and Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center • Wendela Nooteboom – Emergency Response at TPM • … Continue reading →

Save the date: 13 April 14u-17u Workshop Living Moon Right after NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance successfully arrived in a landscape that might have hosted Martian life, we would like to invite you to a first online workshop about the Living … Continue reading →

In deze rubriek Vrouwen in de Wetenschap krijgen vrouwelijke wetenschappers het woord. Hoe verliep hun carrière? Hoe ervaren zij hun positie als vrouw in de wetenschap? Deze week: Frances Brazier, sectieleider Systeemkunde van de afdeling Multi-Actor Systems, met als leerstoel … Continue reading →

Invited talk: Aydin, N.Y., “An overview of critical infrastructure resilience: Methods, case studies and experiment-based analysis for transportation and water networks resilience” IEEE International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities: AI for Smart Cities, 17-23 March, Virtual Forum:https://ieeesg4sc.org/

On 12th February, our PhD Candidate Geertje Slingerland will be interviewed about her research during the radio show ‘Focus Wetenschap’ on NPO Radio 1. She will talk for one hour about her insights into engaging citizens in their neighbourhood and … Continue reading →

This thesis reports on action research in Indonesia that explores the potential of COCREATE (an empowerment approach based on cocreation) to empower stakeholders within agricultural production and supply chains (APSCs) to pursue a sustainable and inclusive future in Indonesia. This approach … Continue reading →

@NL_Wetenschap is a Twitter account that rotates amongst Ducht scientists to tell about their research and what they do during the week. They talk about their field of research and how their research contributes to this. Some of the topics … Continue reading →

Angelo Vermeulen, bioloog en ruimtevaartonderzoeker aan de TU Delft, vertelt in diverse media wat er nodig is om een succesvol bestaan in de ruimte te verwezenlijken. •Beluister het interview: Ruimtebiologie op de maan tijdens Spraakmakers NPO Radio 1, 9 augustus … Continue reading →

Marinus van Haaften has received a Doctoral Grant for Teachers. He is one of twenty-six laureates. The grants provide teachers with an opportunity to further develop their capabilities and strengthen ties between universities and schools. Van Haaften is researcher at … Continue reading →