Dr. Alina Rwei

Alina Rwei is an assistant professor at TU Delft, Department of Chemical Engineering. She received her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. Her work focuses on developing advanced drug delivery systems and wearable biosensors for precision medicine. She is the main lead of the Flagship ‘Personalized, Real-Time Health Impact of Climate Change and Pollution’, aiming to combat the health impacts of environmental stressors with integrative, breakthrough insights and technologies.

Maartje van Wijhe

Maartje van Wijhe is a PhD student at the Applied Economics department of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She obtained a Research Master’s in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute. Her research is focused on evaluating the impact of climate on society, with the aim of improving understanding of how and why society is impacted by the environment. She uses existing data registers containing social outcomes and climatological data to discover and quantify how environmental factors affect individuals’ health and behaviours.