Former PhD candidates

2025

• Dr. Ruth Nelson - Unequal Cities - An investigation into the reproduction of urban inequalities through socio-technical processes and policy
  Currently working as Transport Data Researcher at the City of Amsterdam

2023

• Dr. Selma Čaušević - Energy resilience through self-organization
  Currently working as Scientist Innovator in the Advanced Computing Engineering department of TNO

2022

• Dr. Indushree Banerjee - Self-Organisation for Survival.
  Currently working as a postdoctoral scholar at the Water Management department, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology

2019

• Dr. Nina Voulis - Harnessing Heterogeneity: Understanding Urban Demand to Support the Energy Transition.
  Currently working at Trinomics

2016

• Dr. Qingzhi Liu - Self-Organizing Energy-Autonomous Systems.
  Currently working as an assistant professor in the Information Technology Group, Wageningen University , the Netherlands.

2015

• Dr. Yakup Koç - On Robustness of Power Grids (Cum Laude).
  Currently working at TRIO Investment BV
• Dr. Engin Bozdağ - Bursting the Filter Bubble: Democracy, Design, and Ethics.
  Currently working at Airbnb

2014

• Dr. Kassidy Clark - Negotiation and Monitoring in Open Environments.
  Currently working at Tektronix

2013

• Dr. Evangelos Pournaras - Multi-level Reconfigurable Self-organization in Overlay Services.
  Currently working as a full Professor of Trustworthy Distributed Intelligence at the University of Leeds, UK.

External PhD committee memberships

2026

• Dr. Rado Dukalski - Pursuing Points of View in Road Cycling Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Kotaiba Alachkar - On the Threat of Traitorware to Enterprise Security Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Lieke Hüsken - Overcoming financial barriers to Nature-based Solutions Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Zhihao Qiu - Analysis and Design of Networks - Shortest Paths and Effective Resistance Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Astha Bhatta - Living labs in land and water management: Learning to innovate and innovating to learn Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Erfan Shafiee Roudabri - Optimization-Based Decision Support Framework for Sustainable Urban Heating System Development Building Engineering. Concordia University. (External Examiner)

2025

• Dr. Zeinab Raoofi - System-level impact of electrification on the road freight transport system Engineering Design. KTH Royal Institute of Technology. (Committee member).
• Dr. Hugo Bijmans - Measuring Cybercrime Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Vittorio Nespeca - Information sharing for coordinated self-organisation in disasters Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Arry Destyanto - A Method for Evaluating Port Resilience in an Archipelago Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Irene van Droffelaar - Simulation-optimization for fugitive interception Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Isabelle M. van Schilt - Reconstructing illicit supply chains with sparse data: A simulation approach Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Arjan de Ruijter - Two-Sided Dynamics in Ridesourcing Markets Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).

2024

• Dr. Sara Salimzadeh - Living in the Age of AI: Understanding Contextual Factors that Shape Human-AI Decision-Making Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Bahareh Zohoori - Model-based Risk Analysis of Supply Chains for Supporting Resilience Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Fenghua Wang - Modelling and Analysis of Complex Networks - Robustness, Recoverability and Spreading Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Peter Hogeveen - Exploring the Future of Mobility Control Systems Technology. Eindhoven University of Technology. (Reading committee member).

2023

• Dr. Mannat Kaur - Towards Safe and Just Work Environments for System Administrators Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Wiebke Toussaint Hutiri - Design Patterns for Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Edge AI Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Pol van Aubel - Security and Privacy in the Smart Grid Computer Science, Radboud University Nijmegen. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Chelsea Kaandorp - Transforming urban heating systems Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Simon Vydra - Big data observations made upon social media and policy making Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).

2022

• Dr. Afua G. Owusu - The practice and opportunities in re-operating dams for the environment Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology & the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Malvika Dixit - Transit Performance Assessment and Route Choice Modelling Using Smart Card Data Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Tanzhe Tang - On the Methods for Explaining Polarization of Private and Unobservable Opinions Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Kasper Lange - Simulating industrial symbiosis Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Çağri Tekinay - Automated Abstraction of Discrete-Event Simulation Models using State-Trace Data Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Longjian Piao - Electricity Markets for Direct Current Distribution Systems Technology, Policy and Management and Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).
• Dr. Peng Sun - Robustness of controllability and recoverability of complex networks. Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).

2021

• Dr. Kusnandar - Empowering stakeholders to organise their agricultural production and supply chains for a sustainable and inclusive future in Indonesia. Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).

2019

• Dr. Selinde van Engelenburg - Designing context-aware architectures for business-to-government information sharing. Technology, Policy and Management. Delft University of Technology. (Reading committee member).

2015

• Dr. Guido van 't Noordende - The Design and Implementation of the Mansion Mobile Agent System. Computer Systems. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (Reading committee member).

2014

• Dr. Gideon Dadik Bibu - Computational Verification of Security Requirements. Computer Science. University of Bath. (External examiner).

2013

• Dr. Martine Boonk - Zeker over zoeken? - Naar een juridisch kader voor verrichtingen van zoeksystemen met betrekking tot via internet beschikbare open content. Computer Law Institute. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (Reading committee member).

2010

• Dr. Ali Ahmed - Context-Aware Access Control in Ubiquitous Computing. Computer Science. University of Manchester. (External examiner).
• Dr. Maarten van Stekelenburg - De betere byte in de strijd om het gelijk - De betrouwbaarheid van elektronische gegevens als bewijsmiddel in het Nederlandse, Duitse en Amerikaanse civiele bewijsrecht. Computer Law Institute. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (Committee member).