Nicole van Nes is a Full Professor of Human-Centered Design for Smart Mobility at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Nicole is also Director of the Delft Design Lab on Automated Mobility and board member of the TU Delft Transport and Mobility Institute (TMI).

Nicole’s main research interest is on designing human-technology interactions that are sound and seamless, with a specific focus on design for smart mobility. Nicole is also interested in other design challenges related to increasing the sustainability, safety and inclusivity of our mobility.

With a Master study in Industrial Design Engineering (TU Delft) and a PhD in Social Science (Rotterdam), Nicole’s research typically has an interdisciplinary nature, designing searmless collaborations between humans and technology. Nicole spend a year at Monash University Accident Research Centre in Melborne and later as a research fellow at ARRB in Sydney. Nicole was coordinator of the large European funded projects UDRIVE (about large scale Naturalistic Driving Data collections and analyses) and MEDIATOR (about human factors challenges in relation to vehicle automation).