DMDU Regional and Special Interest groups are member-led committees devoted to advancing the DMDU Society’s mission in specific regions and fields, which focus on enhancing the society’s representation and contribution to communities worldwide.
The DMDU society currently has eight member groups: five regional and three special interest groups.
How to get involved:
- Reach out to the group chair of the groups you would like to get involved with (their contact information is listed below)
- Reach out to DMDU membership chair Pedro N. de Lima (plima@rand.org) if you would like to form a new member group for a currently unrepresented region or community.
Regional Groups
DMDU Europe
Chair: David Gold (d.f.gold@uu.nl), Utrecht University
Steering Committee: Charles Rouge, University of Sheffield; Jazmin Zatarain Salazar, TU Delft; Ingo Schönwandt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.
DMDU Latin America
Chair: Conceição de Maria Albuquerque Alves (calves@unb.br), University of Brasilia, Brazil
Steering Committee: Matias Paredes-Vergara, University of Chile; Yosune Miquelajauregui, LANCIS/UNAM; Edmundo Molina Pérez, Tec Monterrey; Sara Diane Turner, World Bank;
DMDU UK
Chair: Dr. Anna Murgatroyd (anna.murgatroyd@ouce.ox.ac.uk), University of Oxford
Steering Committee: Dr. Mark Workman, Imperial College London; Dr. Martine J Barons, University of Warwick; Dr. Anna Murgatroyd, University of Oxford
DMDU Canada
Chair: Vanessa Schweizer (vanessa.schweizer@uwaterloo.ca), University of Waterloo
Steering Committee: Yena Bassone-Quashie, Toronto Metropolitan University; Kasra Motlaghzadeh, University of Waterloo; Eric Noel, Canada Towards 2030 Project; Umme Kulsum, Memorial University of Newfoundland
DMDU Oceania
Chair: Abel Immaraj (abel.immaraj@aurecongroup.com), Aurecon Australasia
Steering Committee: Dr. Joseph Guillaume, Australian National University; Dr. Andrew Allison, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Dr. Shirin Malekpour, Monash University, Australia; Dr. Sanath Kahagalage, University of New South Wales; Dr. Sam Skinner, Aurecon Australasia
DMDU Asia
Chair: Sohrab Salehi (sohrabshl@gmail.com), Tarbiat Modares University
Steering Committee: Daiju Narita, University of Tokyo; Riddhi Singh, Indian Institute of Technology; Xiaogang He, National University of Singapore; Xiao Peng, National University of Singapore.
If you are interested in joining DMDU-Asia, please fill out this form: Join DMDU Asia
Special interest groups:
DMDU SIG for Defense and Critical Infrastructure Security
Chair: Joseph Ponnoly (jponnoly@gmail.com), Independent Researcher and Management Consultant Cybersecurity
Steering Committee: Nick Martin, Aerospace Corporation (USA); Patrick Steinmann, TNO (Netherlands); Eric Noel, Oxford Analytics (Canada); Sanath Kahagalage, Univ of New South Wales (Australia); Joseph Ponnoly, Independent Researcher & Cybersecurity Consultant (USA)
TranspOrt anD urbAn sYstems (TODAY)
Chair: Mikhail Sirenko (TUDelft) (m.sirenko@tudelft.nl)
Steering Committee: Filip Saad, Royal Haskoning DHV; Karoline Führer, TUDelft; Irene van Droffelaar, TUDelft; Vincent Marchau, TUDelft and Radboud University Nijmegen; Charlene Röhr, MOTT Macdonald
DMDU in Health
Chair: Pedro Nascimento de Lima (plima@rand.org), Associate Engineer, RAND Corporation
Steering Committee: Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, Associate Professor, TuDelft; Jonathan Ozik, Principal Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory; Anna Hotton, Research Associate Professor, University of Chicago; Thomas Trikalinos, Professor of Health Services, Brown University; Henry Willis, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation