Our Experts

Our climate experts investigate some of the most pressing climate challenges of our time.

Are you looking for researchers with specialised expertise in climate science? Are you interested in learning more about a specific climate scientist?

Discover all profiles of climate researchers connected to the VU Climate Expertise Centre, along with links to their research.

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Our Experts

Find our climate experts below

Dim Coumou - Full Professor

Expertise: water and climate risk, extreme weather

d.coumou@vu.nl

Sander Houweling - Full Professor

Expertise: greenhouse gases (GHGs), carbon monoxide, emissions, fossil fuel, biomass burning, climate change

s.houweling@vu.nl

Didier Roche - Full Professor

Expertise: climate variability, paleoclimatology, holocene

d.roche@vu.nl

Bart van den Hurk - Professor

Expertise: water and climate risk, land surface modelling, climate interactions with the socio-ecological system

b.j.j.m.vanden.hurk@vu.nl

Dr. Jorien Vonk

Associate Professor

j.e.vonk@vu.nl

Roxana Petrescu - Research Associate

Expertise: earth and climate, emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs)

a.m.r.petrescu@vu.nl

Michel den Elzen - Full Professor

Expertise: environmental economics, climate policy and mitigation

m.g.j.den.elzen@vu.nl

Clemens Kaupa - Assistant Professor

Expertise: EU Law, misleading fossil fuel advertising

c.kaupa@vu.nl

Sebastiaan Luyssaert - Associate Professor

Expertise: system ecology, forest management impact on climate system

s.luyssaert@vu.nl

David Rossati - Assistant Professor

Expertise: climate law, international climate finance commitments

d.rossati@vu.nl

Oscar Widerberg - Associate Professor

Expertise: global sustainability governance and policy

oscar.widerberg@vu.nl

Philipp Pattberg - Professor

Expertise: global sustainability governance and policy

philipp.pattberg@vu.nl

Carolyn Fischer - Full Professor

Expertise: environmental economics, climate policy

c.fischer@vu.nl

Marjolein Dieperink - Professor

Expertise: energy transition, carbon-neutral society, EU policy

m.a.m.dieperink@vu.nl

Gerard van der Meijden - Associate Professor

Expertise: energy transition, energy economics

g.c.vander.meijden@vu.nl

Mathieu Blondeel - Assistant Professor

Expertise: global energy and climate politics

m.c.blondeel@vu.nl

Jeroen Aerts - Full Professor

Expertise: water and climate risk

jeroen.aerts@vu.nl

Wouter Botzen - Full Professor

Expertise: environmental economics, risk, natural disaster insurance

wouter.botzen@vu.nl

Hein Daanen - Full Professor

Expertise: environmental exercise physiology, human coping with heat and cold

h.a.m.daanen@vu.nl

Nynke Schulp - Associate Professor

Expertise: land use, environmental geography

nynke.schulp@vu.nl

Anne van Loon - Associate Professor

Expertise: water and climate risk

anne.van.loon@vu.nl

Sander Veraverbeke - Associate Professor

Expertise: (boreal) forest fires, terrestrial ecosystems, earth & climate

s.s.n.veraverbeke@vu.nl

Veronica Lupi - Assistant Professor

Expertise: climate change and population dynamics

v.lupi@vu.nl

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