NAE welcomes new members, including three from TU Delft

The Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) brings together experts in technological sciences. Drawn from industry and research institutions, they share a passion for tackling societal challenges through technological innovation.

A year after its founding, the Academy has expanded. With the appointment of 10 Fellows, recognised for their achievements, and four Young Engineers, known for their ‘out-of-the-box thinking’, the total membership now stands at 91.

Three of the new members have ties to TU Delft.

• Said Hamdioui, Professor of Dependable and Emerging Computer Technologies at TU Delft’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, joins the NAE as a Fellow. Before coming to TU Delft, he worked for Intel and the chip manufacturer NXP. In 2021, the science magazine KIJK awarded him a prize for one of the year’s best tech ideas.
• Kiki Louwers, another new NAE Fellow, studied Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft (2009) and later completed an MBA at INSEAD. After positions at bol.com (as Director of Innovation) and McKinsey & Company (as a consultant), she now heads Thorizon, a Dutch-French company, which is developing a thorium reactor.
• Dr Cinzia Silvestri has been appointed as a Young Engineer. After earning her PhD in Microelectronics from TU Delft’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, she co-founded Bi/Ond, a company that integrates microchips with living cells, often for pharmaceutical research.