De documentaire ‘Biocup: Local Action for Global Impact’ laat het verrassende verhaal zien achter een eenvoudige festivalbeker, de Biocup. Wist je bijvoorbeeld dat je plastic bekers van suikerbieten kunt maken? De Biocup is in het kader van de Culturele Hoofdstad 2018 ontworpen en is onderdeel van een …

Presentation at University of Bologna on experimental/new techniques of seismic strengthening

Presentation of findings to the 'Nationaal Coördinator Groningen'

Invited presentation at University of Leeds on new technologies surrounding seismic activity

Purpose: Employment of young adults with chronic physical conditions entering the labor market after finishing post-secondary education remains behind compared to typically developing peers. The aim of this study is to evaluate changes in their paid employment levels after following a vocational rehabilitation …

Presentation for the students of the Hanzehogeschool Groningen on Earthquake Education and Training

This paper aims to quantify the cumulative damage of unreinforced masonry (URM) subjected to induced seismicity. A numerical model based on discrete element method (DEM) has been develop and was able to represented masonry wall panels with and without openings; which are common typologies of domestic …

Groningen gas field is the largest on-land gas resource in the world and is being exploited since 1963. There are damaging earthquakes, the largest of which was 3.6 magnitude. The recursive induced earthquakes are often blamed for triggering the structural damages in thousands of houses in the area. …