Humanitarian Engineering
Humanitarian Engineering
Humanitarian Engineering Group
Episode 20: MSc student Tim Ribberink about his field work in Madagaskar
19 minutes Posted Jul 6, 2026 at 7:17 am.
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In this episode of the Humanitarian Engineering Podcast, we speak with Tim Ribberink, an MSc student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente, who carried out his thesis project at RisE in Madagascar, a start-up dedicated to developing clean cooking solutions. During his project, Tim designed and developed new cooking functionalities that make use of surplus heat generated by the system, helping to improve its efficiency and usability.