Tim van der Hagen (1959) has been chairman of the TU Delft Executive Board since May 2016. From 2010 until 2016 he was dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He was Director of the Reactor Institute Delft from 2005 to 2012. He holds the Reactor Physics Chair.
From 1985, Tim van der Hagen worked as a researcher in nuclear reactor physics, focusing on the interaction between neutronics and thermohydraulics, innovative reactor concepts, stability monitoring, signal analysis and multi-phase currents. He is (co-) author of about 250 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He was the session president and member of numerous program committees of international conferences.
He was one of the initiators of the Delft Plan, the vision of TU Delft on how the Netherlands can take a ruler role in the Europe's energy market, which appeared in 2015.
In 2015, he also co-authored the Rich Without CO2 Policy - Towards Sustainable Energy Supply in the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure in 2050. The Rli noted that the Dutch climate policy had not led to a reduction in CO2 emissions from the energy supply until then. Therefore, the council proposed to broaden the debate on energy transition than about specific sources and sectors. The advice introduced an approach that focuses on four energy needs: low temperature heat (heating of buildings, hot water), high temperature heat (for industry), transport and mobility, and energy for light and appliances.
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Previously he was a member of the General Energy Council and the Topteam Energy. Both advise the government about the energy policy to be implemented.
In 2016 he was the chairman of the AWTI project group who, with the publication Pick up and Push, advised the Minister of EZ to make more efforts to innovate in energy policy. That policy must stimulate and send innovation, and release additional money to achieve a number of breakthroughs. An example of such a breakthrough is the directing of fuels by means of sunlight (solar fuels). He was also involved in the AWTI publication. Keep the base healthy that the EZ and OCW ministers advised to invest substantially more in research, development and innovation at the end of 2016 to maintain the position of the Netherlands as an innovation leader.
In May 2016, Van der Hagen was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion.
Old professor of electricity supply Cees Andriesse called Van der Hagen in a broadcast of VPRO radio Argos "a pro-nuclear energy lobbyist". Van der Hagen did not want to respond to the allegation of Argos broadcast.
In an interview by the NOS about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Van der Hagen argues that the disaster in Fukushima is not comparable to the Chernobyl meltdown. He was unsuccessful by the NOS when it appeared that a meltdown had occurred in Fukushima reactors 1, 2 and 3.
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