Member of the PA Simulation Lab and the EMA Team.
Dr.ir. Jan H. Kwakkel is a postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) at the Delft University of Technology. His research interests are the decision making under deep uncertainty and text mining. His PhD research focused on handling uncertainties in airport strategic planning. In this research he drew on various methods and techniques including adaptive policymaking and exploratory modeling in order to outline an innovative planning approach for the strategic planning of airports. His current research focuses on long term decision making under deep uncertainty in the water sector. He works on two research projects. The first project focuses on developing a long term climate change adaptation strategy for fresh water supply in the Netherlands. The second project, sponsored by the Dutch National Science Foundation, focuses on assessing limits to the planetary fresh water cycle. Next to these research projects, he also has an affinity for text mining techniques and he applied these to study the various meanings of uncertainty, the evolution of the engineering management field, and is currently involved in research into nanotechnology taxonomies for use in research policy together with researchers from TU Delft and Georgia Tech. He has published on decision making under uncertainty in the European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, the journal of Technology, Policy, and Management, Futures, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He also published on techniques for latent semantic analysis in the Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. While working on his PhD, he also finished a bachelor in Philosophy at the University of Leiden.
E-mail: j.h.kwakkel (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Projects: Limits of the blue planet, Decision making under uncertainty - towards an approach for finding robust and flexible fresh water supply strategies
Methods & Fields: EMA, ESDMA, Time Series Clustering
Application Domains: Water, Transport
Member of the PA Simulation Lab and the EMA Team.
dr. Erik Pruyt is Assistant Professor of System Dynamics and Policy Analysis at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. He lectures System Dynamics modelling and simulation to about 250 BSc and MSc students per year and Exploratory Modelling and Analysis to about 75 MSc students per year at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. He obtained a master’s degree in Commercial Engineering and a PhD degree from the Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences & Solvay Business School of the Free University of Brussels. His research focuses mainly on the multi-dimensional dynamics of complex systems, from short-term crises to long-term transitions. Applied interests include economic-financial crises, climate change and energy system transitions, and inter/national safety and security (in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations). Methodological research interests include System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation, Exploratory Modelling and Analysis, Strategic Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty, Hybrid Agent-Systems Modelling and Simulation, and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. More than 25 of his exploratory flight simulators (see Simulations) and more than 20 peer reviewed articles related to System Dynamics, Exploratory Modelling and Analysis, and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (see Publications) are publicly available on the internet.
E-mail: e.pruyt (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Projects: Overcoming System-level Transitional Inertia: accelerating the Dutch energy transition, Infrastructure Planning and Design, (National) Safety and Security
Methods & Fields: System Dynamics modeling and simulation, ESDMA, Integrated Risk-Capability Analysis under Deep Uncertainty
Application Domains: Energy Transitions, Gas, National Safety and Security, Scarcity Issues
Member of the PA Simulation Lab and the EMA Team.
Caner Hamarat is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. He obtained an MSc degree in Industrial Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabanci University. His research interests are exploration and analysis of dynamically complex systems under deep uncertainty. In his PhD research, he focuses on long term decision making under deep uncertainty using the Exploratory Modeling and Analysis method. He is also a teaching assistant for the Continuous System Modeling (System Dynamics) courses at the faculty of TPM. His applied interests include climate change/energy issues, public health and health policies, financial crisis and energy systems. He has published on Exploratory SD Modeling and Analysis (bank run, pandemics and resource scarcity). His current research interests are adaptive policy making and the use of optimization in policy making.
E-mail: c.hamarat (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Projects: Infrastructure Planning and Design
Methods & Fields: EMA, ESDMA, Optimization
Application Domains: Energy Transitions
Member of the EMA Team.
Gönenç Yücel is an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of Bogaziçi University (Istanbul). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology after receiving his PhD in Policy Analysis from the same university. He obtained his MSc degree in Industrial Engineering from the Industrial Engineering Department of Bogaziçi University. His mainly focuses on simulation-supported policy analysis especially in the domains of large-scale socio-technical systems such as energy and transportation. Besides he is interested in more methodological aspects of system dynamics and agent-based modeling such as automated output analysis, verification and validation, and calibration.
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Projects: Overcoming System-level Transitional Inertia: accelerating the Dutch energy transition
Methods & Fields: Agent Based Modeling, Time Series Clustering
Member of the PA Simulation Lab and the EMA Team.
Sibel Eker is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. Obtained from the same faculty in 2011, she holds a master degree in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, with specialization in Modeling, Simulation and Gaming. Her PhD research is about dealing uncertainties in the Dutch gas sector by primarily using Exploratory Modeling and Analysis.
E-mail: s.eker (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Projects: EDGaR
Application Domains: Gas
Member of the EMA Team.
Ir. Willem Auping is a graduate from the faculty Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) of the Delft University of Technology. His graduation project with the title “The uncertain future of copper” was about possible behavior of the copper system in the period till 2050 in relation with the upcoming economies and the energy transition. Previously, Willem worked for his bachelor thesis on the consequences for lithium production, use and recycling of the electrification of transport and energy use. Before that, he was student assistant for the courses “continuous modeling” and “continuous models 2: System Dynamics” at TPM.
E-mail: w.l.auping (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Application Domains: Scarcity Issues
Member of the PA Simulation Lab.
Iman Mohammed is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. She graduated with an MPhil in System Dynamics from the University of Bergen, Norway in 2010. She is currently focusing her PhD research on using several model-based simulation games in multiple ways, to understand and possibly contribute to overcoming inertia in energy transitions in the Dutch built environment.
E-mail: i.s.mohammed (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Projects: Overcoming System-level Transitional Inertia: accelerating the Dutch energy transition
Application Domains: Energy transitions in the Built environment
Member of the PA Simulation Lab.
E-mail: j.h.slinger (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Application Domains: Water
Member of the PA Simulation Lab.
dr. ir. C. Els van Daalen is Associate Professor of policy analysis at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. She received her MSc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 and wrote her PhD dissertation (1993) on the topic of the validation of knowledge based systems. She joined the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management in 1994. Her teaching and research focus on the use of models in policy processes, systems modelling in general and System Dynamics in particular.
E-mail: c.vandaalen (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Prof.dr.ir. Wil Thissen earned a master's degree in physics engineering (cum laude) and a PhD in systems and control engineering, both from Eindhoven University of Technology. He was affiliated with the University of Virginia (systems engineering department) and Rijkswaterstaat before joining TU Delft to become one of the initiators and driving forces behind the establishment of the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. He is presently professor of policy analysis and head of the Policy Analysis section, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology. He co-leads the faculty’s research programme in multi-actor systems, and participates in several national so-called BSIK research programmes, including Next Generation Infrastructures and Knowledge and System Innovations. He is internationally active in various scientific and engineering associations, such as the IEEE (presently as a board member of the IEEE Technology Management Council) and the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). Professor Thissen has a broad interest in the application of systemic modeling approaches to support policy development in multi-actor settings, with particular emphasis on modelling long-term systemic change, and dealing with uncertainties, with applications in integrated water management, infrastructure and transport, and energy systems.
E-mail: w.a.h.thissen (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Bas Keijser is a BSc. student in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management. He takes part in the research of the Simulation lab in light of his participation in the Honours Programme Delft. His research contribution lies in looking at possibilities of applying formal model analysis in exploratory, modelling and analysis. He will write his BSc. thesis with the Policy Analysis-section in the coming semester. His interests are policy analysis in the energy sector and mathematics and modelling more in general.
E-mail: b.m.j.keijser(at) student(dot) tudelft (dot) nl
Associated member of the EMA Team.
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E-mail: p.w.g.bots (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Associated member of the EMA Team.
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E-mail: w.e.walker (at) tudelft (dot) nl
Associated member of the EMA Team.
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E-mail: v.a.w.j.marchau (at) tudelft (dot) nl
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