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Staff Environmental Geography

Researchers Department Environmental Geography
ACADEMIC STAFF
Prof. Peter VerburgProfessor Environmental Spatial Analysis
(Head of department)
Dr Nynke SchulpAssociate Professor (Deputy Head) 
Dr Jasper van VlietAssociate Professor 
Dr Esther BoereAssistant Professor
Dr Pierre ChopinAssistant Professor
Dr Natalie DavisAssistant Professor
Dr Alex LeveringAssistant Professor
Dr Thales Pupo WestAssistant Professor
Dr Federico RivaAssistant Professor
Dr Mario Torralba ViorretaAssistant Professor
Clara Jeanroy, MScAssistant Project Coordinator
Adna Steinmann, MScLecturer
RESEARCHERS
Dr Juan Antonio Hernández-AgüeroPostdoctoral Researcher
Dr Diana Ramírez Mejía Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Wim HordijkResearcher
Callum BlacowJunior Researcher
Davide TitaJunior Researcher
PHD CANDIDATES
Jonas Appelt, MScPhD research: Assessment of trade-off processes between sustainable development goals
Vita Bakker, MScPhD research: Towards sustainable settlement change in Africa
Angela Camarena Barba, MScPhD research: ENTICE project: focusing on modelling and understanding the environmental impacts of trade
Tom Hackbarth, MScPhD research: Bayesian modelling of socio-ecological systems
Kina Harmanny, MScPhD research: Contract solutions for the delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods by farmers in the Netherlands
Xuanya Huang, MScPhD research: RUGBIS: understanding the relation between green-blue infrastructure and densification through mapping ecosystem services (temperature and flood regulation)
Liz Khazieva, MScPhD research: Land Degradation in the grasslands of Central Asia
Jacob Langenbacher, MScPhD research: Finding and evaluating sustainable management practices for European forests that reconcile climate, biodiversity, societal and economic objectives
Sinoxolo Magaya, MScPhD research: Phosphorous recycling in EU organic agriculture
Marijn van der Meer, MScPhD research: FOODCITYBOOST: Developing a fitting approach and tool to assess the urban sustainability of a set of urban agricultural systems
Alex Neidermeier, MScPhD research: Land use change and fire risk
Ilse Nijensteen, MScPhD research: Mapping land use change and well-being in Europe
Joshua Nooij, MScPhD research: Bright Spots in Dutch Agricultural transformations
Paris Pencharz, MScPhD research: FOODCITYBOOST: Exploring urban agriculture, within the EU and UK, through a land system science lens involving spatial analyses and scenario modelling
Margherita Penna, MSc
Job Rosier, MScPhD research: Building blocks for the sustainable development of human settlements: large scale classification and analysis of urban land use
Evelina Sandström, MSc PhD research: LAMASUS: Adapting and improving on already existing land use models to better fit the scope of the policy objectives of the EU Green Deal
Anandi Sarita Namasivayam, MScPhD research: NaturaConnect: Use of dynamic land system change models to understand possible land-use outcomes and their impacts in different scenarios
Niek Scherpenhuijzen, MScPhD research: PathFinder: creating future forest management scenarios
Rex Steward, MScPhD research: Land use change in the Dutch Caribbean with an emphasis on impacts on coral reef health
Rebecca Swart, MScPhD research: SIPATH: Operationalising sustainable agricultural intensification pathways in Europe
Lanping Tang, MScPhD research: Agricultural land use and Ecosystem Services in China
Camille Venier-Cambron, MScPhD research: Biodiversity conservation in times of climate change
Loes Verkuil, MScPhD research: Emergence of environmental ‘bright spots’ in the Netherlands
Hang Yang, MScPhD research: Gaining insights on urban dynamics through the analysis of historical trajectories of human settlement development and the land use change model concentrating on the varying density within the built-up land
PREVIOUS PHD CANDIDATES
Dr Adenew Ariti
Dr Sophie de Bruin
Dr Marthe Derkzen
Dr David Eitelberg
Dr Catherine Fayet
Dr Richard Fuchs
Dr Franziska Komossa
Dr Perrine Laroche
Dr Christine Ornetsmueller
Dr Claudia Parra Paitan
Dr Reinhard Prestele
Dr Samantha Scholte
Dr Bep Schrammeijer
Dr Katharina Schulze
Dr Julia Stürck 
Dr Koen Tieskens
Dr Willem Verhagen
Dr Sarah Wolff
Dr Cecilia Zagaria
Karina Zelaya, MSc

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