Wil A.H. Thissen

Position:

Professor of Systems and Policy Analysis, Head of Policy Analysis section

Contact information

Office: b3.270, Jaffalaan 5

Email: Thissen@tbm.tudelft.nl

Personal homepage

Degrees:

M.E. Physics Engineering (1973); Ph D Systems and Control Engineering (1978)

Biography:

Wil Thissen has over 25 years of experience as a researcher, teacher, and practicing analyst, working at the interface of systems analysis and modeling on the one hand, and policy and decision making at the other. Before coming to his present position in 1992, he was a junior researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, a senior scientist and assistant professor at the University of Virginia, U.S.A a senior Policy Analyst with the Netherlands' Ministry for Transport and Public Works, and an associate professor at TU Delft. He plays an active role in different international scientific communities, including the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA).

Research interests:

• Policy Analysis theory and methodology
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Dealing with Uncertainties
• System Dynamics
• Application fields: Water resource management, land use planning, transport, energy systems – more in general: Infrastructures

Sponsored research:

• Dealing with uncertainties in energy transitions (NWO-Novem)
• Methodology for dealing with uncertainties in infrastructures (NGI-BSIK)
• Modeling the dynamics of transitions (KSI-BSIK)

Teaching:

• Analysis of Complex Environments (spm2110)
• System Dynamics projects
• (co-) supervision of many M Sc and Ph D students

Secondary
employment:

• No indication

Selected publications:

L. Kornov and W.A.H. Thissen: Rationality in decision- and policy-making: implications for strategic environmental assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, Vol. 18, 3, 2000, p. 191-200.

Thissen W A H; Systems engineering education for public policy. International Journal of Technology Management, 2000, p. 408-419.

Thissen W.A.H., P.G.J. Twaalfhoven; Towards a conceptual structure for evaluating policy analytic activities. European journal of Operational Research, Vol. 129, 2001, p. 627-649,

Geenhuizen M S van, W A H Thissen; Uncertainty and Intelligent Transport Systems: Implications for Policy. International Journal of Technology, Policy, and Management, Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 5 - 19.

Thissen, W.A.H. and  Herder, PM  editors (2003) Critical Infrastructures. State of the Art in Research and Application. Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 304 pp.

Porter, A.L, Thissen, W.A.H. and many others: (2004) Technology Futures Analysis: Towards Integration of the Field and New Methods. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 71, pp. 287-303

Thissen, W.A.H., M. Ludema, M. Pantic and P. Wieringa, Eds. (2004).: Proceedings 2004 International IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. IEEE/Omnipress, NJ.