2023 - Associate Professor hydrological extremes. Main research topic is the human impact on floods and drought in large-scale river basins. Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

2017 - 2022 Assistant Professor hydrological extremes. Main research topic is the human impact on floods and drought in large-scale river basins. Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

2017 - 2019 Visiting faculty at Princeton University. Main research topics: seasonal drought forecasting, hyper-resolution modelling water resource modelling over Europe. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, United States

2015 – 2017 Postdoc Development of an integrated seasonal drought forecasting system that provides information on forecast quality, uncertainty and reliability, potential socio-economic impact, and alerts and warnings for drought events. This research is funded by my Rubicon fellowship and carried out under supervision of Professor E..F. Wood at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, United States

2015 – 2015 Postdoc Implementation of flood plains and water temperature module into the Global Hydrological Model PCR-GLOBWB under supervision of Prof. M.F.P. Bierkens, dr. L.P.H van Beek, Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

EDUCATION

2011 – 2015 PhD Improving near real-time flood forecasting using multi-sensor soil moisture assessment under supervision of Prof. S.M de Jong, Prof. M.F.P. Bierkens, Prof. A.P.J de Roo, Dr D. Karssenberg, Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

2009 – 2011 MSc Hydrology and Water Quality, University Wageningen
Specializations: Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality
MSc Thesis: Indicators for drought characterization on a global scale

2005 - 2009 BSc Bodem Water Atmosfeer, University Wageningen