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There are four vacancies (2 PhD and 2 PostDocs) in Alex Stefanov's research group at TU Delft on cyber security and resilience of power grids to cyber attacks. See them below with links to a detailed job description and application form.

The DeSIRE Resilience Fellowship programme brings together researchers from different disciplines and different parts of the world. Recently, João Cortesão shares his recent work on climate-responsive adaptation of urban areas in an arid climate, in a collaboration with researchers from Chicago State University, Ain Shams University and Wageningen University. Aynaz Lotfata and João have met to develop their study on climate resilience in Cairo, Egypt. This is an ongoing interdisciplinary design research counting on the invaluable work of Hestia Zinsmeister and the priceless contributions of Samah El Khateeb, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Josephine van Zeben, Zac Taylor and Wendy Guan Zhen Tan.

June's edition of our newsletter has just been published, check it out here!

June 10, 2022 the fourth Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Timo Overboom, Levy Costa and David Smeulders gave a talk about The role of grid components during energy transition, Connecting the Hydrogen energy storage to the existing grid and Keeping your options open in energy systems.

Read new updates on Data-driven decision-support tools for pandemic preparedness (Florence Metz) and Healthy waterway systems (Prateek Negi)

We have a long list of 4TU.RE members to congratulate!

4TU.Resilience Engineering has published a new DeSIRE Research Story! This time, Miranda Meuwissen shares her experiences with the research project SURE-Farm: Sustainable and Resilient EU Farming Systems. This project studied the resilience of the European farming systems and provides interesting findings on how to develop healthy and sustainable farming systems. 

May 18, 2022 the fifth Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Hiba Baroud and Omar Kammouh gave a talk about Evaluating the vulnerability of infrastructure systems and their role in food distribution during disasters and A scalable approach for intervention planning of complex interconnected systems.

April 21, 2022 the fourth Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Johanna Hedlund and Els Weinans gave a talk about Policy issue interdependency and collaboration in environmental governance and An exploration of drivers of opinion dynamics respectively.

April 4, 2022 the third Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Hubert Fonteijn gave a talk about Assessing the resilience of food systems: from a conceptual framework to agent-based modelling. 

March's edition of our newsletter has just been published, check it out here!

Working across disciplines is something within the DNA of 4TU.Resilience Engineering. With regard to education, 4TU.RE sets the example with the launch of the interdisciplinary educational platform, the Urban Resilience Community Platform, on edusource. Let’s find out what it is and how to use it.

The Thematic Working Group meeting of the DeSIRE programme took place on March 14th at “de Observant” in Amersfoort. It set the scene for fruitful discussions on:

March 17, 2022 the second Thematic Seminar was held. Here, Juliette Cortes Arevalo gave a talk about Resilience examples from water and sanitation for refugees in humanitarian contexts. 

Last week February 22, 2022 the first Thematic Seminar was held, organized by one of our 4TU RE DeSIRE Thematic Working Groups, the Urban group. Here, Aynaz Lotfata and Maryam Naghibi gave a talk about Climate-adaptive streetscapes in Unplanned Urban Areas in Desert Climates and Transforming Leftover Spaces into Resilient Urban Landscapes respectively.