Academic Positions

 

Selection of functions

• Member of the Dutch Commission on Environmental Impact Assesssment
• Director of education, Innovation- and Environmental Sciences, Utrecht
  University
• Head section Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University
• Board member, Department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences,
  Utrecht University
• Representative for Western Africa, IWACO Consultants on Water and
  Environment, Burkina Faso
• Deputy-head productgroup Water & Ecology, IWACO Consultants on Water and
  Environment, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
• Coordinator of interdisciplinary research programme Networks in the
  Delta, Utrecht University
• Project leader of about 25 consultancy projects, both with IWACO and
  Utrecht University
• Member of several professional boards, and several international
  scientific/organisational conference committees

Supervision of PhD theses

On-going:

1. Feroz Islam - Dynamic polder management for sustainable livelihoods in Bangladesh
2. Ann-Hélene Faber - Chemical risk assesment of hydraulic fracturing for drinking water
3. Floris keizer - Revisiting the Flood Pulse Concept: how peatland hydrology influences spatial vegetation distributions in natural floodplains
4. Tanapipat Walalite - Hydro-ecological functioning of the monsoonal Songkhram river floodplain in Thailand 

Finalised:

• Dr. Floris Naus  -  6 November 2020
  Socio-hydrogeological Potential for Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Fresh-saline Aquifers of Southwestern Bangladesh
• Dr. Henk van Hardeveld  -  1 November 2019
  Informed science–policy interactions:  Advancing the support of collaborative management of social–ecological systems
• Dr. B. van der Grift - 9 June 2017
  Geochemical and hydrodynamic phosphorus retention mechanisms in lowland catchments
• Dr. A. van Loon  - 12 March 2010
  Unravelling hydrological mechanisms behind fen deterioration in order to design restoration strategies
• Dr. F. van Kouwen - 3 October 2007 
  The Quasta approach - exploring new pathways to improve the use of knowledge for sustainability challenges. 
• Dr. C. Vink - 16 June 2006
  Continuing lines - Application of heuristic optimisation techniques for spatial environmental problems with multiple objectives. 
• Dr. G. Vonk - 28 March 2006
  Improving planning support. The use of Planning Support Systems for spatial planning.
• Dr. N. Pieterse - 20 February 2004
  Patching up the landscape. Optimising procedures for selecting suitable sites and emasures for ecological restoration.

Academic Education