Mandy is a postdoctoral researcher in the WaterScape project, which focuses on supporting the water transition in the Netherlands. A shift is needed, from rapidly discharging water and preventing flooding to making space for water in the landscape. To achieve this, she will bring together physical solutions for flooding and drought with governance and legal dimensions, based on research by project colleagues, in storylines and transformation pathways for integrated, adaptive, and just water systems at the landscape scale.

Her previous work also bridges natural and social sciences. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Antwerp, titled ‘Fair and Square? The role of recognition in promoting fair and resilient flood risk management in Flanders and internationally’. This work explores the social dimension of flooding, examining to what extent recognition justice is integrated in flood risk policy. She demonstrates how attention to differentiated social vulnerability can contribute to the fairness and resilience of flood risk management - a policy domain that has traditionally been highly technocratic.