Over the past two years, Radboud researchers and students and Alliander experts have already been able to find each other to work with AI and Data Science, for example, on faster problem analyses of congestion and breakdowns on the congested power grid. Mathematicians and chemists came to the rescue in detecting wear and tear on cables - because soil type and moisture make quite a difference to service life, the scientists learned from the network experts. And there were smaller successes, such as tackling phishing mails at Alliander, where the expertise of behavioural scientist Wolter Pieters led to such mails being reported more often to ICT, while at the same time Alliander employees' annoyance at having to report them decreased.
Not only for beta researchers
In the coming years, Radboud researchers in the field of spatial planning will also contribute to the collaboration. Sijbrand de Jong, dean of the Faculty of Science, at the meeting around the renewal of the cooperation, expressed the hope that researchers from the Faculty of Law and in the field of ethics will also join in - because when it comes to a fair distribution of scarce resources, energy and the energy network are topics where there is a lot of work to do.
Pictured from left to right: Rinke van de Rhee (Alliander), Arjan Stam (Alliander), Daniël Wigboldus (Radboud University), Beatrijs Weimar (Alliander) and Sijbrand de Jong (Radboud University) raise their glasses after signing the new cooperation agreement.
