Professional experience
2021 - present
Universiteit Utrecht: Assistant professor
Assistant professor in Quantitative Methods in Extreme Environments
2018 - 2021
Universiteit Utrecht: Postdoctoral researcher
Integrating large scale remote sensing and hydro-glaciological modelling to study the past, present and future water cycle in the high mountain regions of Asia.
2014 - 2018
Universiteit Utrecht: PhD Candidate
Studied the dynamics of (debris-covered) glaciers using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and numerical modelling in order to learn more about spatial and temporal variability in melt and flow patterns, and about the role of surface features. Provided students with multiple lectures on (UAV) remote sensing, assisted computer practicals of the Earth Observation and Remote Sensing courses for multiple years, and supervised various bachelor and master students.
2014
FutureWater (Wageningen, The Netherlands): Hydrologist
Involved in several projects for this consultancy. Responsibilities include providing climate data to partners and clients, performing climate analyses and setting up a web mapping service.
2013 - 2014
Universiteit Utrecht: Research associate
Worked on a research project in which a Nepalese glacier is studied using imagery from a unmanned aerial vehicle. Included expeditions to Nepal, data processing, co-authoring a scientific paper (writing, creating figures) and presenting the results.
2012 - 2013
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI, De Bilt, The Netherlands): Intern
Responsible for the transformation of temperature and precipitation data from CMIP5 climate models for the KNMI’14 climate scenario report.
2012
Universiteit Utrecht: Student assistant
Student assistant for the practicals of the ‘Hands-on GIS’ course. Responsibilities were aiding the students with their exercises, explaining certain GIS techniques and solving technical problems.
Skills
- Oral and written presentations
- Spatial GIS analyses (i.a. ArcGIS, IMAGINE, QGIS, PCRaster)
- Remote sensing analyses (i.a. Google Earth Engine, ENVI, IMAGINE, eCognition)
- Programming and numerical modelling (i.a. R, Python, Bash, MS-Prompt, MATLAB, HTML)
Specialisms
Unmanned aerial vehicles, Remote sensing, GIS, Glaciology, Hydrology, Climate change, River (morpho)dynamics
Languages
Dutch (native), English (professional), French (elementary), German (elementary), Hungarian (elementary)
Education
2014 - 2018
Universiteit Utrecht
PhD Physical Geography (cum laude)
2014 - 2018
European Institute for Innovation and Technology
Climate-KIC PhD Label Programme
2010 - 2013
Universiteit Utrecht
Master Physical Geography (cum laude)
2006 - 2010
Universiteit Utrecht
Bachelor Earth Sciences
2000 – 2006
Coornhert Gymnasium Gouda
Pre-university secondary education
Prizes
Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
Martinus van Marum Prize 2021
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2017
Outstanding Student Paper Award
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016
Outstanding Student Poster and PICO Award
International Symposium on Glaciology in High-Mountain Asia 2015
Best oral presentation by a student