Judith Claassen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute of Environmental Studies (IVM). She earned her bachelor degrees in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Amsterdam University College, where she conducted a study on cluster storms at the KNMI for her thesis. She continued her education at TU Delft in Civil Engineering: Water Management. As a research intern, she wrote her master’s thesis research at Deltares, working on a parametric model to predict tropical cyclone precipitation.
Her PhD research was funded by the Horizon 2020 funded MYRIAD-EU project focused on Multi-risk. The PhD focusses on modelling multi-hazard events using probabilistic methods. Judith also served as chair for the Early Career Researcher board of the project.
Expertise
Multi-hazards and probabilistic modelling.
