Comprehensive Engineering for the Energy Transition

Speaker: Paulien HERDER, Head of the Engineering Systems and Services Department at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management – Delft University of Technology
Paulien Herder is department head of the Engineering Systems & Services department of the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology. In the context of her chair, engineering systems design in energy & industry, she studies the design and management of energy systems and more specifically she is interested in energy systems integration and the transition to a sustainable energy provision. In this research, engineering sciences as well as social and behavioural sciences play an important role.

Selected current positions: • Member of Dutch National TopTeam Energy • Chair of Delft Energy Initiative • Member of Executive Committee of Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN) • Member of Steering group Advanced Dutch Energy Materials (ADEM) • Member of Steering group “Computational Sciences for Energy Research” (NWO-FOM) • Member of Council of Experts for Metrology, chemistry/energy

Paulien is active in the field of energy and industrial systems since 1994. She has an MSc degree in chemical engineering and a PhD degree in the engineering (systems) sciences. She is a (co-)author of more than 150 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Infrastructure Complexity (Springer) and she is reviewer for many other scientific journals, conferences and research programmes and grants.