Machiel van Dorst appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft

The Executive Board of TU Delft has appointed Medical Delta Professor Machiel van Dorst as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment with effect from 1 February 2026. He is currently Professor of Environmental Behaviour and Design. 

He has been affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment since 2002, obtaining his PhD in 2005 with his thesis ‘A sustainable living environment’. His research focuses on the interaction between behaviour and urban design. In 2020, he was appointed Professor of Environmental Behaviour and Design. 

Over the years, Van Dorst has held numerous management and leadership roles within the faculty. Between 2012 and 2019, he was chair of the Department of Urbanism, a role he temporarily filled again in 2019 and 2024. From 2017 to 2019, he headed the former OTB department. Between 2018 and 2020, he was Vice Dean. In 2025, he was also made Scientific Director of the Resilient Delta Initiative Convergence Program, as well as Medical Delta Professor, with affiliation to the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University.  . 

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