Lisanne van Amelsvoort is a PhD candidate in the Department of Water and Climate Risk at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her PhD research focuses on optimising government-led adaptation pathways for floods and droughts using the GEB model. In her work, the adaptation pathways will be evaluated beyond monetary terms, to include for example biodiversity and equity impacts.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the Amsterdam University College and a Msc in Earth Sciences: Global Environmental Change and Policy from the Vrije Universiteit. In her master’s thesis, Lisanne used a hydrodynamic model to map, and consequently determine the impacts of, extreme pluvial flooding events in the Masai-Mara ecosystem in East-Africa.
Expertise
Hydrological modelling, climate change adaptation
Education
2025: Msc Earth Sciences (Cum Laude), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2022: BA Liberal Arts & Sciences (Cum Laude), Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands.
