Here you can find an overview of open data researchers at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.
Current lab members
Dr. Anneke Zuiderwijk
Associate Professor of Open Data and Lab manager
Research interests: open government/research/business/citizen data, infrastructures, institutional arrangements, design, user behavior, theory development
Research projects: Twinning Open Data Operational (TODO), Towards a Sustainable Open Data ECOsystem (ODECO), Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space (TRUSTS)
Social media: Twitter, LinkedIn
Articles: Google Scholar
Liubov Pilshchikova
PhD researcher
Short description: My research focuses on the role of non-profit organisations as intermediaries in the open data ecosystem. Specifically, I focus on how non-profit organisations may help other actors in the ecosystem to overcome open data usability barriers with the activities they perform.
Link to research: The objective of my research is to investigate the influence of resources provided by NGOs on the usability of open government data. By using a design science research approach I will develop a model of structural relationships between resources provided by NGOs and the usability of open government data (OGD).
Research interests: open government data, usability, NGOs, open data resources, design science
Research projects: Towards a Sustainable Open Data ECOsystem (ODECO)
Social media: LinkedIn
Francesca Morselli
Postdoctoral researcher
Short description and link to research: My research at TU Delft focuses on the 4OpenScience project. This project aims to develop a framework to highlight Open Science (OS) programs' positive and negative effects in Dutch universities. The approach is to integrate measurable OS indicators (e.g. number of open access publications) developed by universities with qualitative observations (e.g. difficulties or diverse strategies in adopting OS practices by researchers). The objective is to portray the diverse landscape of OS implementation practices by bringing to light both the positive outcomes and the less desired effects of OS. Finally, based on the inputs collected during focus groups and interviews, the project 4OpenScience will develop a framework that Dutch universities may adopt to monitor and assess their OS programs more comprehensively. Before my appointment at TU Delft, I worked as a Research Data Expert at DANS-KNAW. Since 2019, I have focussed on a PhD research (based at the University of Verona, Italy) on collaborative practices among researchers within European Research Infrastructures (ERICs). My research question examines the friction between spontaneous collaboration dynamics among researchers and the structured governance model of the ERICs.
Research interests: open science, open research, evaluation, research infrastructures
Research projects: 4OpenScience project
Social Media: Linkedin, Twitter
Dr. Fernando Kleiman
Lecturer
I defended my Ph.D. at TUDelft in September 2021, using design sciences to develop a quasi-experiment to test a game to change civil servants' attitudes towards open data. My research covered actual discussions in Digital government, bureaucracy behaviour, decision-making and policymaking. Actually, I am a Lecturer in the ICT section / ESS Department to support educational activities, developing a gaming interventions, and supporting practical work.
Research interests: open data, open government, serious gaming
Social media: LinkedIn
Articles: Google Scholar
Prof. Dr. Ir. Marijn Janssen
Full professor in ICT & Governance
Research interests: ICT-architecting, big open and linked data (BOLD), open government, public-private collaborations
Social media: LinkedIn, Twitter
Articles: Google Scholar
Dr. Boriana Rukanova
Researcher
Research interests: public-private governance, B2B, B2G and G2B data sharing, digital trade infrastructures
Research projects: PROFILE, PEN-CP
Social media: LinkedIn
Articles: Google Scholar
Dr. Boriana Rukanova is a senior researcher at Delft University of Technology. She has been working on a series of EU-funded innovation projects in the area of international trade and Customs such as ITAIDE (2006-2010), CORE (2014-2018), PROFILE (2018-2021) and PEN-CP (2018-2023). Her research interests include initiation and upscaling of digital trade infrastructures, business-government information sharing, blockchain, and the use of big data, open data and analytics. Her current research interests include topics such as digital infrastructures for circular economy monitoring.
Stefan Pfenninger
Assistant Professor
Stefan Pfenninger is an assistant professor of energy systems in the Energy and Industry group. His research is on the global transition to a 100% clean and renewable energy system, and on identifying and resolving the technical, economic and policy barriers on the way to that goal. Together with his team, he investigates three broad areas. First, understanding the variability of renewable energy at spatial scales ranging from individual buildings to entire continents, and at time scales ranging from minutes to decades. Second, designing the energy systems that can deal with and even thrive on this variability, with strategies from continent-spanning electricity grids to district heat networks. Third, trade-offs between sustainable energy and other issues, such as land use, material requirements, and ecosystem impacts. His key methods are computationally data-intensivesive approaches and mathematical optimisation. In the course of his work he created and leads the development of the open-source energy system modelling tool Calliope. He is also the creator and lead developer of the Renewables.ninja platform to simulate wind and solar power plants worldwide. Stefan is a member of the Open Energy Modelling Initiative which promotes openness and transparency in energy system modelling.
Jeroen Delfos
Researcher
Jeroen Delfos is a PhD candidate at the faculty of Technology Policy and Management at the TU Delft. Governments are increasingly confronted with the task to oversee the use of algorithms in the public domain. However, such oversight in the public domain is currently in a pioneering stage. Jeroen's research aims to contribute to this field by developing a framework for supervisory agencies to supervise the use of machine learning algorithms used in the public sector.
Wirawan Agahari
Researcher
Wirawan Agahari (Aga) is currently researching the impact of privacy-enhancing technologies on the decisions of businesses and consumers in sharing their data. His research interest lies in business-to-business data sharing, data-driven business models, data governance, information privacy, and digital platforms. His research is part of the Safe-DEED project (Safe Data-Enabled Economic Development) funded by EU Horizon 2020. Familiar with qualitative and quantitative research approaches, he looks forward to understanding why and how emerging technologies are changing how businesses and citizens share data in a digitized society.
Juan Manuel Dúran
Assistant professor
Short description: My research interests focus on themes in the philosophy of science and technology: computer simulations, Big Data, scientific models, and laboratory experimentation. My current research also includes themes from the philosophy of computer science (computer models, specifications, algorithms), data-intensive research (dark data, scientific data officer) and the ethics of technology (ethics of computer simulations).
Cathleen Parsons
Researcher
Research project: Cathleen is a PhD candidate in the ICT Section. The increasing availability of digital healthcare data is creating new opportunities, especially in combination with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her PhD research focuses on understanding how AI-based clinical decision support systems can assist healthcare professionals, while aiming to increase patient involvement in AI-based decision-making.
Research interests: healthcare data, responsible and ethical artificial intelligence, value co-creation
Social media: Cathleen Parsons | LinkedIn
Caterina Santoro
Researcher
Caterina Santoro is a researcher at KU Leuven University, Public Governance Institute. Her research project investigates ‘Government and Open Data’ and is part of the ODECO Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network initiative. Through a critical analysis of open data conducted at the regional and central level, her research project intends to identify what governmental roles and instruments can enable social equity in the open data ecosystem.
Research interests: open government data, social equity, critical data studies, public administration, public policy, governance
Research projects: Towards a Sustainable Open Data ECOsystem (ODECO)
Social media: LinkedIn
Prof.dr.ir. Nitesh Bharosa
Researcher
Professor of GovTech and innovation and Academic Director of Digicampus
Research interests: GovTech, multi-helix innovation, open government, trust frameworks, data governance, quantum safe digital infrastructures, data wallets, systems design and engineering.
Research projects: GovTech4ALL, Informatiehuishouding, Open-by-Design, Hybrid Approach for quantum-safe Public Key Infrastructure Development for Organisations (HAPKIDO)
Social media: LinkedIn
Articles: Google Scholar
Emyana Sirait
Researcher of Open Data and Lab manager
Research interests: digital government, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, public sector, public values
Research projects: My research objective is to investigate factors influencing the readiness of government organizations to implement predictive AI for financial and social service. I explore resources and capabilities concerning data, technology, people, organization, environment that need to be in place, to help government realizing value from AI in their organizations. By using a mixed-method approach, I will gain deeper and wider context of relationship between resources and capabilities own by governmental organization to implement AI and the value of AI implementation.
Social media: LinkedIn
Former lab members / collaborators
Antragama Ewa Abbas
PhD researcher
Short description: Antragama Ewa Abbas is currently working on open (business) data sharing via a federated data marketplace. His research interest lies in business models and data governance. His thesis focuses on designing data governance mechanisms (i.e., onboarding certification, smart contract) to improve perceived data sovereignty (how data providers can control their shared data) in an emerging federated data marketplace.
Research interests: business to business data sharing, open business data, governance, control over data
Research projects: Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space (TRUSTS)
Social media: LinkedIn
Articles: Google Scholar
Emily van den Hengel
MSc student
Emily is a second-year CoSEM Master’s student (Complex Systems Engineering and Management), working on her graduation research under the supervision of Anneke Zuiderwijk and Eric Molin. Emily’s research focuses on open research data in the transport discipline. She develops hypotheses based on a literature review and conducts a questionnaire with transport researchers. Emily quantitatively tests why researchers in the transport domain do or do not openly share their research data. This enables comparisons with open research data inhibitors in other disciplines and contributes to open data theory development.
Jip de Meijer
MSc student
Jip is a second-year EPA Master’s student (Engineering Policy Analysis), working on his graduation research under the supervision of Jeroen Delfos, Anneke Zuiderwijk, and Maarten Kroesen. Jip’s research focuses on open algorithm registers used by public organizations. More specifically, he examines the perspectives of public organizations and citizens on open algorithm registers, their potential positive and negative effects, and studies the differences and similarities between these perspectives.
Dr. Hosea Ofe
Postdoctoral researcher
Short description of research: Digitalization opens new opportunities for the collaborative development of services in the public transport sector. For example, public transport operators can leverage insights from external developers to create new services. At the same time, digitalization also challenges the core of many public transport industries requiring them to rebrand and adopt new roles to provide innovative services to citizens. My research explores how public transport operators and external developers can be governed and coordinated in creating open data platforms collaboratively. My research provides insights into governance mechanisms in resolving conflicting goals among open data stakeholders are resolved.
Research interests: business data sharing, data platforms, open data
Research projects: Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space (TRUSTS)
Social media: LinkedIn
Articles: Google Scholar
Rayyan Alorini
Master student
Rayyan is a second-year CoSEM Master’s student (Complex Systems Engineering and Management). Working on his graduation research under the supervision of Anneke Zuiderwijk, Mark de Bruijne, and Liubov Pilshchikova. Rayyan’s research focuses on Open Government Data (OGD) usability barriers. Specifically, he explores the effect of resources and activities of Non-Profit Organizations to reduce the usability barriers of OGD from the users’ perspective.
Ying Zhang
Researcher
Ying Zhang is a visiting PhD researcher at the ICT section of TPM. She is conducting her PhD research at Zhejiang University, China. Ying’s current research interests focus on open government data capability, citizen engagement and the use of open government data. Only the usage of open government data and improving the open government data capability of governments will result in the creation of value and improve citizen engagement with open government data. Her research will help to improve the creation of public value, which is considered as essential for understanding the ‘open government’ domain.
Research interests: Open government data, OGD policy, Open government data capacity, Open data use, the coordination between government resource and citizen engagement with open government data.
Articles: Google Scholar
