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Tatiana Filatova has been appointed Professor of ‘Computational Economics’ at the Faculty of Behavior, Management and Social Sciences. She will be giving an inaugural lecture in the Waaier building, at 16.00 precisely on Thursday 5 March 2020 to mark the occasion of her appointment. Linked to this inaugural lecture is a Symposium ‘Climate Change Calls for Action: Resilience and Adaptation to Unprecedented Extremes’.

The executive board of Wageningen University & Research has appointed Sanda Lenzholzer as Professor and Chair Landscape Architecture. She succeeds prof. Adri van den Brink who has retired. Her new position started as per 1 February 2020. Read the WUR article.

“It would be great if in a couple of years Resilience Engineering (RE) is embedded in the 4TU educational programs. We really want to connect research and education. All engineers should understand RE challenges, both from an engineering and a social point of view.” Tina Comes tells about the new 4TU RE - SURF project. This project aims to develop, publish and use Open Educational Resources (OER) on Urban Resilience. Read the ‘People in the Picture’ interview with Tina.

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The 4TU.Federation presented five new educational programmes in The Hague yesterday. 22 million euros were allocated for the realisation of the initiative. A total of 44 tenure trackers and 29 postdocs are working on the research cores. The overarching theme is ‘high tech for a sustainable future’. Read the U-Today article.

ISNGI 2019 is an initiative of the SMART Infrastructure Facility (NLD) and our host partners University College London (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Virginia (US) and Delft University of Technology (NLD). Furthermore, for every edition of the Symposium there are local partners that are part of the organization of this event. In this opportunity the Argentine Centre of Engineers is our local partner.

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Rijkswaterstaat in cooperation with ProRail offers a webinar on Climate Resilient Transport Networks on September 19th 2019 from 15.00 to 16.30 hours.

The 4TU.DeSIRE program and the 4TU.RE Center aim to establish and foster an international network of top-level academic scholars, engineers, practitioners and decision-makers who serve as ambassadors of the RE paradigm. This network of Resilience Fellows:

The Intelligent Electrical Power Grids (IEPG) section within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at TU Delft has a very ambitious and diversified research programme covering major technological challenges concerning the operation and planning of future power grids. IEPG is building a new research programme on resilience of cyber-physical energy systems that includes cyber security for power grids. The doctoral candidate will conduct research on cyber security and resilience of cyber-physical energy systems to cyber attacks.

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Climate Change 2019 (21, 22 October, Las Vegas, USA) will focus on the theme "A Dream to build a planet free of climatic risks". This conference aims in gathering the eminent research communities to catalyse for information exchange and networking between researchers and business entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds for advancement in the field of Climate Change and its allied areas.

New Postdoc position in the disaster risk managment/ resilience field! Interested? Have a look at https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/!/922747/postdoc-geoinformatics-for-disaster-damage-and-recovery-assessment