We do our research within various formal and informal teams at UU, with a great group of staff, postdocs, PhDs, MScs, and BSc students.
Delta team (September 2025)
Coastal team (May 2025)
Current team
PhDs
Maartje van Dijk (UU), 2025-present, storm surge barriers and delta morphology
Ryusei Sato (UU), 2025-present, life expectancy of river deltas
Raghavi Thillaigovindarasu (UU), 2025-present, life expectancy of river deltas
Erik Wu (UU), 2025-present, modelling deltaic sedimentation-enhancing strategies
Jelle Bulens (UU), 2025-present, sea-level rise adaptation of barrier islands
Anderson Amaya-Saldarriaga (at LSU, PhD advising committee), Vegetation dynamics in deltas
Marloes Bonenkamp (TU Delft), 2025-present, global estuarine morphodynamics
Kiara Lasch (UU), 2025-present, Physical solution space for future deltas
Jiejun Luo (visiting from ECNU), 2024-present, ecomorphodynamics of global deltas
Julius Overhoff (UU), 2024-present, Nature-based solutions for the Rhine in 2120
Niek Collot d'Escury (UU), 2023-present, global river morphology
Connor Broaddus (at UC Irvine, PhD advising committee), 2023-present, wave-influenced deltas
Nazwa Tahsin (WUR), 2022-present, mapping intertidal areas of the GBM delta
MScs
Matthijs Doelman, 2025-2026, SEA-CCHANGE coastal change in Ireland
Lars Haverkort, 2025-2026, SEA-CCHANGE coastal change in England
Vicky Sant, 2025-2026, SEA-CCHANGE coastal change in Zeeland
Pieter Smeets, 2025-2026, river sediment supply projections to Columbian deltas
Alumni
Postdocs
Jie Wang, 2023-2024, Morphodynamic time lags in tidal deltas, now postdoc at Hong Kong Polytech
Yonggui Yu, 2021-2023, carbon sequestration on the Yellow River Delta front, now researcher at FIO
Xuejiao Hou, 2020-2021, suspended sediment concentration dynamics in river deltas, now faculty at Sun-Yat-Sen University
Derrick Vaughn, 2019-2022, carbon sequestration in deltas, now faculty at Utah State University
Juan Felipe Paniagua Arroyave, 2018-2020, tropical deltas, now faculty at EAFIT
Christopher Daly, 2018-2019, coral reef morphodynamics, now faculty at FGCU
PhDs
Minsik Kim (Yonsei), 2021-2025, role of mud in delta evolution, now postdoc at UC Riverside
Dinuke Munasinghe (Alabama, PhD advising committee), 2018-2021, remote sensing of delta channels
Mingyang Chen (FSU), 2018-2020, co-advisor, remote sensing of barrier transgression, now at Harbin Institute of Technology
MScs
Dean Bucchiarelli, 2024-2025, building Arctic deltas in the lab
Bram Pleij, 2024-2025, SWOT satellite data for coastal water levels
Marre Groeneboer, 2024-2025, Building with overwash: engineering for barrier islands
Maartje van Dijk, 2024-2025, Wad’s left? sea-level rise and the Dutch Wadden Islands
Rosalie Farenhout, 2024-2025, adaptation pathways toward global delta sustainability
Avril Hardi, 2024-2024, beyond the bathtub: sea-level rise and coastal wetlands (Beyonsea)
Demi Bouland, 2024-2025, global barrier island drowning
Giulia Marroni, 2024-2025, ecological adaptation space for global river deltas
Beau van Koert, 2024-2024, remote sensing of sediment fluxes in the Rhine-Meuse delta
Sven Kooistra, 2023-2024, climate change impact on hurricane risk
Yanxi Shi, 2023-2024, holocene delta change and implications for species evolution
Ezra Tavill, 2023-2024, predicting overwash dynamics in the Dutch Wadden sea
Nickolas Kallioras, 2023-2024, controls on and effects of ice-keel scours in the Arctic
Astrid Hooijmans, 2023-2024, uncertainty in global river sediment projections
Briangga Herswastio Bromo, 2023-2024, global delta response to sediment supply changes
Sanne Hol, 2023-2024, flood-risk adaptation in global deltas
Annemarie de Putter, 2023-2024, morphodynamic adjustment timescales in estuaries
Kiara Lasch, 2023-2024, adaptation pathways toward global delta sustainability
Caroline Cooper (at UNC), 2022-2023, Arctic shelf morphodynamics
Tim O’Doherty, 2022-2023, global estuarine morphology
Alisa Glenewinkel-Meyer, 2022-2023, global river morphologic mapping
Laura Portos Amill, 2021-2022, barrier island drowning
Kamiel Roell, 2021-2022, lower shoreface sediment transport
Meike Traas, 2021-2022, effect of morphodynamics on estuary salinity intrusion
Marijn van Engelen, 2021-2022, response time of delta change to dam building
Rick Jankowski, 2020-2021, machine learning and river deltas
Marjolein van den Broek, 2020-2021, wave transformation across coral reefs
Eline van Heerwaarden, 2020-2021, shoreface response to sea-level rise
Eline Sieben, 2020-2021, sediment management strategies in deltas
Joey O’Dell, 2020-2021, building a global flood protection database
John Malito (at UNC), 2019-2021, Arctic shelf morphodynamics
Leoni Heijkers, 2019-2020, storm impact on barrier islands
Wouter Gerats, 2019-2020, floodplain sedimentation in deltas
Daan van Keulen, 2017-2019, scours in estuaries
Hamzah Suharyanto, 2017-2019, long-term estuarine change