The 4TU.centre for Resilience Engineering brings together scientists from different fields to find solutions to complex problems that our societies face today. It also uses a system-thinking approach to develop solutions for a more resilient communities.
Systems like water management & water works, such as storm surges, health care & hospitals, energy production & energy networks all get affected by disruptive events. The way we can handle situations like these, is to build resilient systems. Therefore, system thinking and combining expertise of a variety of scientific fields are key to healthy, safe and liveable communities, now and in the future.
Here are four articles I wrote in 2023 on what it means to work across disciplines and the added value that came out of these collaborations. These articles found their way to board rooms, they contributed to a growing online community on LinkedIn, were republished by universities and one was republished by a Dutch trade magazine.
- DeSIRE programme has proved to benefit academic careers
The 4TU.DeSIRE programme came to an end in 2023. However, its legacy will continue within the Resilience Engineering community. - DeSIRE funded project aims to develop new monitoring strategies for bridges
Roland Kromanis, together with colleagues, applies and calibrates sensors on a bridge to measure its performance and, hence, resilience to its daily excitations. - How leaving your mono-disciplinary comfort zone bears fruit
Ahmadreza (Reza) Marandi shares his story on how his research interest is influenced by the 4TU.Resilience community. - How Urban Resilience took shape in the 4TU.RE community
João Cortesão and Claudiu Forgaci take the time to reflect on what brought them together and look forward to what the future may hold for Urban Resilience.