Paulien Herder is department head of the Engineering Systems & Services department of the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology. In the context of her chair, engineering systems design in energy & industry, she studies the design and management of energy systems and more specifically she is interested in energy systems integration and the transition to a sustainable energy provision. In this research, engineering sciences as well as social and behavioural sciences play an important role.

Selected current positions:

• Member of Dutch National TopTeam Energy
• Chair of Delft Energy Initiative
• Co-author / co-lead of Delft Energy Plan, a visionary outlook for the Netherlands
• Member of Steering group Advanced Dutch Energy Materials (ADEM)
• Member of Steering group “Computational Sciences for Energy Research” (NWO-FOM)
• Member of Council of Experts for Metrology, chemistry/energy
• Member of Steering group Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN)

Paulien is active in the field of energy and industrial systems since 1994. She has an MSc degree in chemical engineering and a PhD degree in the engineering (systems) sciences. She is a (co-)author of more than 150 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Infrastructure Complexity (Springer) and she is reviewer for many other scientific journals, conferences and research programmes and grants.