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Responsible Innovation

We live in a digital society. Every day, you are influenced by the digitization of data: how we communicate and socialize, how we work, learn, stay healthy, and participate in politics and the economy.

Discover the story behind our researchers. How do they perceive digital advancements? What can we expect in the future with the advent of AI?

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A digital society has long been established. From satellites in space, your smartphone, traffic lights, to robots cleaning up plastic from the seabed, digital technology is indispensable in our society. Our digital society can be seen as a complex socio-technical system. The question is how we can design and manage this system in the best and most responsible way, ensuring a digital society that remains human-centric, healthy, just, inclusive, and secure.

At TBM, we leverage our knowledge of technology and complex socio-technical systems to understand the impact of digitalization on our daily lives. We focus on technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and 5G, as well as themes like cybersecurity. We analyze their influence on our societal life and the relationship between humans and the digital society. For instance, researchers at TBM provide advice to the EU on the ethical implications of technological innovations and the power of big tech companies. What are the consequences of disinformation, bot armies, and manipulation through the internet? With the knowledge we acquire, we help design solutions that assist policymakers in creating future-proof policies and finding answers to issues of power inequality and legal challenges. Our goal is to shape systems where the societal interest is paramount.

Meet our researchers

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Dr. A.Y. (Aaron) Ding

Aaron Ding is a leading the Cyber-Physical Intelligence (CPI) Lab in the Dept of Engineering Systems and Services at TU Delft. As a tenured Associate Professor of TU Delft and Associate Professor (permanent) in Computer Science at University of Helsinki, I have over 15 years of R&D experience across EU, UK and USA.

Sara Vermeulen

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Nynke van Uffelen

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Joseph Sta. Maria

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Filippo Grillo

PhD candidate, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Benjamin Paul Hofbauer

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Ali Dizani

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Madelaine Ley

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Claudia Werker

Associate professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Joost Alleblas

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Aldy Gustinara Darwili

PhD candidate, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)
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Prof.dr. Rolf Künneke

Professor emeritus section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

K. (Kathleen) Guan

Kathleen Guan is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr. Caroline Figueroa and Dr.ir. Mark de Reuver at the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management. Her research is in equitable digital health design, with a specific focus on socio-ecological digital interventions for preventive health behaviour change.
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Dr. J.A. (Jan Anne) Annema

Jan Anne Annema teaches transport policy analysis at Delft University of Technology, faculty Technology, Policy and Management. His main interests are in long-term developments in transport, the environment, cost-benefit analysis and the practice of ex ante transport policy evaluation studies.
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Ir. J. (Jeroen) Delfos

Jeroen Delfos is a PhD researcher and data scientist at the Inspectorate of Justice and Security at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft.
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Joost Mollen MSc

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Samuela Marchiori

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Prof.dr.ir. Ibo van de Poel

Full professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Prof.dr.ir. Henk de Vries

Guest researcher section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Clare Shelley-Egan

Associate professor, section Ethics / Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Elena Ziliotti

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Stephen Rainey

Senior researcher, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Emad Yaghmaei

Postdoctoral researcher, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Irene Grossmann

Assistant professor, section Safety & Security Science (3S)
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Jordi Viader Guerrero

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Bauke Wielinga

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Prof.dr.ir. N. (Nitesh) Bharosa

Nitesh Bharosa is Professor in GovTech at Delft University of Technology. He is the academic director of Digicampus – a quadruple helix innovation ecosystem for future public services.
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Dr.ir. Britte Bouchaut

Assistant professor, section Safety & Security Science (3S)
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Dr. Steffen Steinert

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Samantha Copeland

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Kritika Maheshwari

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Giang Tran

Assistant professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Lieke Brackel

Guest, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Dr. Udo Pesch

Associate professor, section Ethics / Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Dr. Roland Ortt

Associate professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Dr. Janna van Grunsven

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Mandi Astola

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Dr. Ro Naastepad

Assistant professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Dr. Laurens Rook

Assistant professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)

Prof.dr. M. (Marc) de Vries

Affiliated full professor, section Ethics & Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Dr. Sjoerd Zwart

Associate professor, section Ethics / Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

Dr. Ir. Rutger van Bergem

Assistant professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)
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Dr. B. (Ben) Wagner

Ben Wagner is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management and Director of the AI Futures Lab at TU Delft.
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D.A. (Damla) Akoluk

Damla Akoluk is PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft. Her PhD research focuses on AI for decision support and climate change adaptation. This research explores how to use AI in the area of equitable design.
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Ir. I.S. (Irene) van Droffelaar

Irene van Droffelaar is a PhD candidate at the Policy Analysis section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.

J.E. (Jorge) Constantino Torres

Jorge Constantino is a PhD candidate at TU Delft’s Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management and a member of the AI Futures Lab at TU Delft. Jorge's research is focused on the interaction between human actors and technologies around data, privacy, and artificial intelligence in the security sector.
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A.G. (Ana) Gagua

Ana Gagua is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at Delft University of Technology.

Caroline Bollen

postdoctoral researcher, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. Aleksandrina Ralcheva

Assistant professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)
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Dr. Aafke Fraaije

Postdoctoral researcher, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

María Palacios Barea

PhD candidate, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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Dr. N.Y. (Nazli Yonca) Aydin

Nazli Yonca Aydin is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft. She is a member of the 4TU- DeSIRE program on Resilience Engineering and my research focus is to understand and measure the unique characteristics of resilient cities and critical infrastructures
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Dr. H. (Helma) Torkamaan

Helma Torkamaan is an Assistant Professor in AI for Health Systems in the Systems Engineering section of the Department of Multi-Actor Systems. She pursued her PhD, working on the application of recommender systems in the health domain, in the Interactive Systems group at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
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N. (Naomi) van der Linden PhD

Naomi van der Linden is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, TU Delft. Her current focus areas is the organization and financing of emergency care, and its impact on quality, cost-effectiveness, staff capacity, equity and environmental impact of the healthcare system.

Prof.dr. J.H. (Jill) Slinger

Jill Slinger is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft.
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Dr. L.D. (Luis) Virla Alvarado

Dr. Michael Klenk

Assistant professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)

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Stories

De waterstofauto als cruciale schakel in een duurzaam energiesysteem

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The hydrogen car as a crucial link in a sustainable energy system

Conventional cars that run on fossil fuels no longer meet today’s needs, certainly not in view of the Dutch government’s target of being CO₂ neutral by 2050. A combination of hydrogen cars and battery electric vehicles, are the way forward as stated by the TPM researcher Samira Farahani. She and other researchers at TU Delft are working on Professor Ad van Wijk’s concept of the 'Car as a power plant' (CaPP). In this concept, hydrogen cars will act as power sources in a sustainable energy system in which electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power is converted into hydrogen.
Ontwerpen voor duisternis

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Designing for darkness

Days are short in December and January, but this does not mean darkness sets in early in the Netherlands. On cloudy nights, light pollution turns the night sky of Delft a bright orange. Let’s start designing for darkness, Dr Taylor Stone proposes in his research.
Tweedeling in klimaatadaptatie voorkomen

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Avoiding division in climate adaptation

The government has growing expectations of citizens when it comes to climate adaptation, but not every citizen or neighbourhood is able to live up to these expectations. Neelke Doorn, Professor of Ethics of Water Engineering, is studying ways of avoiding social divides between neighbourhoods.

News

Research for responsible AI in the military domain: REAIM2023

Research for responsible AI in the military domain: REAIM2023

Delft AI and ethics researchers lead academic forum of REAIM conference 15 and 16 February.

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Developing and maintaining values in a digital society

Developing and maintaining values in a digital society

How can we ensure that the fundamental values which we consider important in the Netherlands and Europe, such as privacy, transparency and…

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Jeroen van den Hoven in Computable over ethiek als kritische factor voor succes

Jeroen van den Hoven in Computable over ethiek als kritische factor voor succes

Door de opkomst van artificiële Intelligentie is ethiek in het centrum van de belangstelling gekomen.

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