Dr. Ni Yan works for the Valorization Center of Delft University of Technology. She managed the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initial Training Network AWESCO and assisted in the management of the “Fast Track to Innovation” project REACH. She has also coordinated and managed other EU projects in the past, such as the FP7 project NIOPLEX. She is currently working as program and section coordinator at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences and the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, for which she coordinates the EU Horizon 2020 project REPAIR.