My name is Jana Cox and I worked on both my PhD and postdoc (in the physical geography department) with the NKWK Rivers2Morrow (https://ncr-web.org/projects/rivers2morrow/) at Utrecht University project studying the response of the lower Rhine and Maas rivers to climate change and sea level rise. Following this, I began as an assistant professor of Environmental Hydrology at Sustainable Development where I now work on the long-term sustainability of delta systems and in particular the integration of the new Delta Climate Center into education and research. 

My research focuses on the urban Rhine-Meuse delta, studying how dredging has created a negative sediment budget and how that will persist in the future. I also focused on the role of sediment and sediment management and how sediment can be used to protect the Dutch coast against climate change impacts and the influence of ongoing dredging activites on sediment budgets. I looked at how sea-level rise will influence estuaries using the Metronome (Metronome Tidal Facility) . I also looked to solutions for urban deltas to raise land in the face of sea-level rise, so-called sedimentation enhancing strategies (WCFD Sedimentation Enhancing Strategies). Furthermore, I worked on large-scale sediment fluxes across the entire Rhine basin and sediment fingerprinting. 

 I am a founding member of Young Women of Geosciences (https://ywog.sites.uu.nl/) and a guest lecture of coastal processes at the University of the Westfjords (Iceland). 

See a video about my PhD research here: