4TU RE connects resilience experts from the four universities of technology in the Netherlands. Here you will find more information and the contact details of our 4TU RE experts.
Our boards
Board
The board jointly supervise the activities of the organisation.
Bram de Vos
Managing Director Environmental Sciences Group (WUR)
Freek van der Meer
Dean and Professor geothermal energy and earth resources of Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (UT)
Ingrid Heynderickx
Dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences / Professor of Applied Visual Perception (TU/e)
Jan Dirk Jansen
Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences / Professor of Reservoir Systems and Control (TUD)
Strategic Advisory Board
The Strategic Advisory Board provides the necessary input from other organisations in the industry, from government and NGOs.
Aernout van der Bend
Managing director of Next Generation Infrastructures (NGinfra)
Anne Marie Hitipeuw
Chief Resilience Officer of the City of The Hague
Arnoud Molenaar
Chief Resilience Officer / Manager Rotterdam Climate Proof at City of Rotterdam
Corjan Gebraad
Strategy Advisor at Urban Development Dept. Rotterdam
David van Raalten
Board member Water Board WDODelta
Henk Ovink
Special Envoy for International Water Affairs at Kingdom of the Netherlands
Inge Vianen
Global Leader CARE Climate Change and Resilience Platform
Jeroen Hatenboer
Director Stichting Pioneering
Kenneth Heijns
Managing director at AMS Institute
Lilian van den Aarsen
Director of the central office of the National Delta Programme Commisioner
Reintje van Haeringen
CEO at CARE Nederland
Sabrina Helmyr
Program leader Climate Adaptation / Sector leader water boards at Arcadis
Stefan Nijwening
Entrepreneur / Innovator at Water board Vechtstromen
Our scientists
Scientific Steering Group
The steering group determines the scientific course of 4TU RE.
Tina Comes
Associate Professor and Delft Technology Fellow on Designing Resilience (TUD) - Scientific Director 4TU RE
Bas Jonkman
Professor of Integral Hydraulic Engineering (TUD)
Geert-Jan van Houtum
Professor of Maintenance and Reliability (TU/e)
Tatiana Filatova
Professor Computational modeling for climate change economics (UT) - programme leader DeSIRE
Marjolein Dohmen-Janssen
Associate Professor Civil Engineering (UT) - Managing Director 4TU RE
Miranda Meuwissen
Professor of cost-effective risk management in food supply chains (WUR)
Think Tank
The think tank helps to coordinate and set up the research activities.
Joanne Vinke-de Kruif
Assistant Professor at the Construction Management and Engineering group (UT)
Krijn Poppe
Research manager and Senior Economist (WUR)
Lan (Ge) van Wassenaer
Strategic Senior Scientist (WUR)
Pascale le Blanc
Professor at the Human Performance Management Group (TU/e)
Stella Kapodistria
Assistant Professor Stochastics of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (TU/e)
DeSIRE Tenure Trackers
The DeSIRE Tenure Trackers lay the foundation of the national research cluster on Resilience Engineering and work on the interdisciplinary research agenda of 4TU RE.
Ahmadreza Marandi
Resilient supply chains (TU/e)
Alex Stefanov
Cyber-physical energy system resiliency (TUD)
Claudia Fecarotti
Resilient asset management and maintenance (TU/e)
Claudiu Forgaci
Resilience by urban transformation (TUD)
Elisa Perrone
Statistical models and methods for resilience engineering (TU/e)
Florence Metz
Governing Resilience of the RURBAN Metropolis (UT)
George van Voorn
Operational Measures for the Assessment of Resilience and Sustainability of CAS (WUR)
João Cortesão
Designing resilient urban climates (WUR)
Juan Pablo Aguilar Lopez
Flood Resilience (TUD)
Laura Genga
Resilient Business Information Systems (TU/e)
Mitrofan Curti
Electromagnetic energy conversion for a more resilient society (TU/e)
Nazli Aydin
Modeling and governance for the response to large-scale disruptions (TUD)
Rolands Kromanis
Monitoring the resilience of artificial and natural infrastructure in cities and urbanized deltas (UT)
Samantha Copeland
Ethics of Technology (TUD)
Wieke Pot
Governance of social-ecological-technical systems for improving resilience (WUR)
DeSIRE post-docs
The postdoctoral researchers perform excellent research in the area of Resilience Engineering.
Akke Kok
Post-doc DeSIRE Programme
Carissa Champlin
Project Leader SURF Urban Resilience
Guus ten Broeke
Post-doc DeSIRE Programme
Raphael Klein
Post-doc DeSIRE Programme
Resilience Fellows
The Resilience Fellows serve as academic ambassadors on Resilience Engineering and build a bridge between science and practice.
Joanne Vinke-de Kruif
Coordinator Fellowship Programme
Wieke Pot
Co-coordinator Fellowship Programme
Young Fellows
Agostinho Vilanculos
Hydrologist (DNGRH)
Diego Sesma-Martín
PhD in Economics (Public University of Navarre)
Enayat A. Moallemi
Research Fellow at Centre for Integrative Ecology (Deakin University)
Firouzeh Taghikhah
Research Fellow (University of Technology, Sydney)
Kamia Handayani
Manager of Climate Change & Environmental Safeguard (PLN) and visiting scholar (UT)
Marcel Burkhalter
PhD student and research assistant (ETH Zurich)
Margaret Kurth
Research engineer (US Army Corps of Engineers)
Rui Teixeira
Lecturer and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin
Yaning Qiao
Associate Professor (China University of Mining and Technology)
Fellows
Karin de Bruijn
Senior researcher Flood Risk Management (Deltares)
Louis de Bruin
Advisory board member (2Tokens)
Maria Pregnolato
Lecturer/Assistant Professor (University of Bristol), EPSRC Fellow
Micheline Hounjet
Product Development Flood Resilience (Royal HaskoningDHV)
Şebnem Düzgün
Full Prof. and Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair in Mining Engineering (Colorado School of Mines)
Ambassadors
Arno Bonte
Vice Mayor for Sustainability, Clean Air and Energy Transition
Garry Peterson
Professor at Stockholm Resilience Centre
Harith Alani
Professor of Web Science (The Open University)
Jim Hall
Director of the Environmental Change Institute and Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at University of Oxford
John Andrews
Professor at University of Nottingham
Juliet Mian
Technical Director of the Resilience Shift
Nezih Altay
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management (DePaul University)
Niki Frantzeskaki
Professor Urban Sustainability Transitions
Associated scientists
The associated scientists perform excellent scientific research in the area of Resilience Engineering.
Aaron Ding
Assistant Professor (TUD) , Adjunct Professor (University of Helsinki)
Bas Kemp
Professor Adaptation Physiology (WUR)
David Smeulders
Professor Energy Technology (TU/e) - Scientific Director 4TU RE
Debraj Roy
Assistant Professor (UT)
Giorgia Giardina
Assistant Professor (TUD)
Jeremy Bricker
Associate Professor (TUD)
Maria Nogal Macho
Assistant Professor (TUD)
Mingshu Wang
Assistant Professor (UT)
Neelke Doorn
Full Professor (TUD)
Remco Dijkman
Associate Professor (TU/e)
Sanda Lenzholzer
Full professor (WUR)
Trivik Verma
Assistant Professor (TUD)
Other staff
Supporting staff
The supporting staff helps to keep the centre running.
Lotte Seinen-Franke
Secretary BOO and 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering
Mia Lucas
Secretary ET-Educational Support & 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering
Join us!
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