Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

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Dr. Reinier van der Veen

My name is Reinier van der Veen and I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). I work in the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), in the section of Energy & Industry.

I have obtained my bachelor, master and PhD degree at Delft University, faculty of TPM. My PhD thesis, which I completed in 2012, is about the institutional design of electricity balancing markets in Europe. In 2012 I started up a post-doctoral research within the EU FP7 project “Servicising Policy for a Resource Efficient Economy (SPREE)”, in which I have mainly been involved in the development and application of a generic agent-based model to explore the potential impact of servicising policy (policy that promotes the shift towards a service economy) on absolute decoupling, i.e. economic growth in combination with reduced environmental impacts. The project has ended in June 2015. Currently, I am looking for possibilities to further develop research on sustainable economies using the methodology of agent-based modelling.

In the PEARL project, I am contributing to a flood risk assessment ontology within Work Package 3, together with my colleagues Dr Igor Nikolic and Dr Amineh Ghorbani. The ontology will be a conceptual framework presenting the relevant concepts, definitions and interrelations within PEARL. It may be useful as a shared knowledge base, but also as the conceptual foundation of several agent-based models that are being developed in the project.

Although I was born in Amsterdam, I have lived in Delft for most of my life. I love the city and would be happy to show you around!

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