Researchers Department Water and Climate Risk
| ACADEMIC STAFF | |
| Prof. Philip Ward | Professor Global Water Risk Dynamics and Director MSc Hydrology (Head of department) |
| Prof. Anne van Loon | Professor of Drought Risk and Water Security (Deputy Head) |
| Prof. Jeroen Aerts | Professor Water and Climate Risk |
| Prof. Dim Coumou | Professor Climate Extremes and Societal Risk |
| Dr Nadia Bloemendaal | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Jens de Bruijn | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Dirk Eilander | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Melinda Galfi | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Toon Haer | Assistant Professor, Adaptation and risk dynamics, agent-based modelling |
| Dr Wiebke Jäger | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Elco Koks | Assistant Professor, Economic and infrastructure impacts of climate extremes |
| Dr Maurizio Mazzoleni | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Hans de Moel | Assistant Professor, Water/climate risk modelling and E-science |
| Dr Sanne Muis | Assistant Professor, Extreme sea levels and coastal flood risk |
| Dr Marleen de Ruiter | Assistant Professor, Multi-hazard risk and disaster risk reduction; Coordinator MSc Global Environmental Change & Policy (GEC&P) and director education SENSE graduate school |
| Dr Paolo Scussolini | Assistant Professor, Data-driven climate and water science; Coordinator of IVM PhDs |
| Dr Marthe Wens | Assistant Professor |
| Dr Mark Bokhorst | Coordinator Earth Sciences and Economics |
| Dr Tim Busker | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Raed Hamed | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Jose David Henao Casas | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Joshua Kiesel | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Danai-Maria Kontou | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Nicole van Maanen | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Meriem Krouma | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Shadi Shirazian | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Timothy Tiggeloven | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Charles Wamucii | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Roy Pontman, MSc | Junior Researcher |
| Emma Schultz, MSc | Junior Researcher |
| Valentin Weiwad, MSc | Junior Researcher |
| Marjolein Naudé, MSc | Lecturer |
| PHD CANDIDATES | |
| Lisanne van Amelsvoort | PhD research: Optimising on government-led adaptation pathways for floods and droughts using GEB model |
| Ayoola Apolola, MSc | PhD research: CHANCE project: Global modelling of climate change impact on extreme sea levels |
| Esther Bakels | PhD research: Impact-based forecasting of compound heat/drought events |
| Irene Benito Lazaro, MSc | PhD research: Event-based modelling of coastal flood risk at global scale |
| Veerle Bril, MSc | PhD research: Future FRM tech project: Focusing on new technical and nature-based solutions for flood risk management |
| Sophie Buijs, MSc | PhD research: MYRIAD-EU project which focusses on dynamic feedbacks between risk drivers |
| Ted Buskop, MSc | PhD research: CLIMAAX project which aims to support the development and user testing of risk assessment tools for river and coastal flooding, as well as droughts |
| Judith Claassen, MSc | PhD research: Multi-hazard risk, modelling, and management |
| Kelley De Polt, MSc | PhD research: Understanding the interactions and feedback between hazards and the natural and human systems |
| María Fonseca, MSC | PhD research: Assessing climate risk of current and future wind and hail storm events, how this affects urban areas, communities and investments, and the available adaptation options to reduce the risks. |
| Siyu Gao, MSc | PhD research: Revealing the evolution process of the resilience of complex, interdependent transportation infrastructure networks under extreme weather as well as developing real-time disruption or recovery monitoring and prediction methods |
| Susan Geurtsen, MSc | PhD research: Vidi project: which aims to obtain empirical insight in the drivers of equitable adaptation for heterogeneous vulnerable coastal households. |
| Rafaella Gouveia Loureiro Oliveria, MSc | PhD research: JCAR-ATRACE project, which aims at evaluating how short- and medium-term forecasts can help reduce flood impacts and complement long-term flood protection strategies |
| Lars de Graaff, MSc | PhD research: UPWAS project, which aims at upscaling local water storage measures by Dutch farmers in order to adapt to droughts |
| Tamara Happé, MSc | PhD research: XAIDA: European heatwave detection and attribution using artificial intelligence |
| Maurice Kalthof, MSc | PhD research: Social and environmental changes due to climate change and extreme floods and droughts |
| Moongyeom Kim, MSc | PhD research: COASTMOVE project: main objective is to propose, for the agents across the globe, a generic rule of behavioural parameters |
| Clara Lesser de Mello Silva, MSc | PhD research: Investigating Cascading Drought Risk as Socionatural Processes, which aims at comparing modelled risk and impact with in-depth qualitative perceptions and experiences related to drought |
| Huazhi Li, MSc | PhD research: Spatial dependence of flood events at the global scale |
| Caihong Liu, MSc | PhD research: Impact of mid-latitude circulation on East Asian heatwaves |
| Fei Luo, MSc | PhD research: Climate modelling and summer persistent extreme events |
| Alessia Matanó, MSc | PhD research: Spatiotemporal interactions and feedback mechanisms between drought and flood risks, compound crises & dynamic vulnerability |
| Heidi Mendoza, MSc | PhD research: Qualitative storylines of past and future drought-to-flood events |
| Lotte Muller, MSc | PhD research: Exploring human-water interactions during droughts in the Rijnland area in the Netherlands |
| Sadhana Nirandjan, MSc | PhD research: Coastal flood risk to critical infrastructure |
| Kushagra Pandey, MSc | PhD research: Coastmove project |
| Joël de Plaen, MSc | PhD research: Improve decision-making on coastal risk by delivering an open-source web-platform dedicated to coastal adaptation to sea level rise |
| Elda Pipa, MSc | PhD Research: Modeling equitable adaptation to coastal risk and climate justice implications |
| Marjolein Ribberink, MSc | PhD research: Focusing on the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones and the subsequent hazards they pose as post-tropical cyclones, and how this changes with changing climate |
| Anne-Sophie Sabino Siemons, MSc | PhD research: Focusing on droughts risks for ecosystems and the cascading risks for land-dependent communities |
| Julius Schlumberger, MSc | PhD research: Modelling Disaster Risk Management Pathways in complex and dynamic multi-risk systems |
| Benedetta Sestito, MSc | PhD research: CLIMAAX project on vulnerability dynamics to climate change-related hazards |
| Rikke Stoffels, MSc | PhD research: EXPECT project on physical processes controlling European climate and its summertime extremes in relation to climate change |
| Tristian Stolte, MSc | PhD research: Capturing local city characteristics in global disaster risk models |
| Ileen Streefkerk, MSc | PhD research: Drought risk and adaptation |
| Lars Tierolf, MSc | PhD research: Coastmove project |
| Marijn Ton, MSc | PhD research: Coastmove project |
| Surender Raj Vanniya Perumal, MSc | PhD research: MIRACA project (Multi-hazard Infrastructure Risk Assessment for Climate Adaptation) focusing on the economic impacts of infrastructure failure |
| Eliot Walt, MSc | PhD research: EU HORIZON 2020 PREVENT project, which aims at enhancing the sub-seasonal to seasonal predictability of extreme events in the Mediterranean |
| Ruben Weesie, MSc | PhD research: Narratives of drought-to-flood events |
| Mengqi Ye, MSc | PhD research: Risk assessment of climate extremes to power systems |
| PREVIOUS PHD CANDIDATES | |
| Dr Judith Claassen | 2026 |
| Dr Julius Schlumberger | 2026 |
| Dr Lars Tierolf | 2025 |
| Dr Rhoda Odonga | 2025 |
| Dr Eric Mortensen | 2025 |
| VISITING FELLOWS | |
| Prof. Bart van den Hurk | Professor Climate and Socio-Ecological Interactions |
| Dr Sem Vijverberg |