People / Gerdien de Vries
Co-investigator
Gerdien de Vries
Associate professor
- Institution
- Delft University of Technology
- Work package
- Now
- Climate psychologist at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (Organisation & Governance), TU Delft; listed as prof.dr. on the May 2026 Tamis thesis
Daily supervisor in WP7: promotor of Helena Schmidt (TU Delft) and second promotor of Milan Tamis (TU/e), and co-author of their NEON papers.
Climate psychologist at TU Delft who studies climate-related decisions and the energy transition from a behavioural perspective, combining social psychology with (risk) communication and behavioural public administration. She obtained her PhD in social psychology at Leiden University.
About me
I am an associate professor in Climate Psychology at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology. I have a background in social psychology and started to combine the study of human behaviour with theories from the field of (risk) communication and (behavioural) public administration during my PhD at Leiden University. I identify psychological mechanisms that affect climate-related decision-making with qualitative and quantitative research methods. I like to zoom in on the concept of climate psychology and why humans find it sometimes difficult to act green. I am motivated to share my research findings with a large audience, therefore I regularly blog and vlog about my work.
Personal Motivation
In the NEON project I supervise Milan Tamis and Helena Schmidt
Profile text from the former NEON website.
✎ draftPhD researchers supervised
Publications and talks
- Moving your electric car for others: Identifying injunctive norms for sharing public charging points (journal-article, 2026)
- Predicting the community acceptance of airborne wind energy with the integrated acceptance model: Insights from two test sites (journal-article, 2026)
- Sharing neighbourhood charging points: Surveying communication and agreements between electric vehicle drivers in the Netherlands (journal-article, 2026)
- Resident Perceptions of an Onshore Airborne Wind Energy Test Site in Ireland: Survey Data (dataset, 2026)
- How do residents perceive energy-producing kites? Comparing the community acceptance of an airborne wind energy system and a wind farm in Germany (journal-article, 2024)
- Plugging in with neighbours: Defining the social dimension of electric vehicle charging in the Netherlands (journal-article, 2024)
- Noisy Kites? Exploring Noise Annoyance for Airborne Wind Energy Systems with a Laboratory Listening Experiment (conference-paper, 2024)
- Will it Fly? An Interactive Role-Playing Game for Exploring Social Conflicts in Airborne Wind Energy Siting (conference-paper, 2024)
- Survey data on residents' assessment of an airborne wind energy system in Germany (dataset, 2024)
- The Social Acceptance of Airborne Wind Energy: A Literature Review (journal-article, 2022)
- Social Acceptance of Airborne Wind Energy (conference-paper, 2022)