Doris was a PhD student working on the influence of water management on hydrological droughts. Her research area is inspired by water conflicts around the world and previously projects were located in water-scarce areas in developing countries. Currently, her focus is on groundwater management that proves itself to be influential during droughts. Examples of the…
Marit was a PhD student based at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She did the Bachelor Soil, Water and Atmosphere and Master Earth and Environment, both at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). She started her MSc with an Erasmus exchange at the University of Oslo (Norway) and followed courses related to glaciology and meteorology. Due to…
Read more Dr Marit Van Tiel – now postdoc at University of Freiburg
Mel (now based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge) was a postdoctoral researcher working on the CreativeDrought project. Mel is originally from France, but has lived in the UK since September 2007 when she came over to do an MA in conflict resolution at the University of Bradford. She stayed in Bradford to do a…
Danny was a PhD student specialising in urban hydrology, who graduated in 2020. He researched the effects of extreme events on water quality in cities. His research was focused on furthering understanding of water quality dynamics during extreme events within urban systems, for which he specifically looked at the effects of floods and droughts on…
Benedikt was a postdoc working in the Groundwater Drought Initiative (GDI) project. He started his academic path in Munich, Germany, doing a Bachelor in Environmental Engineering, followed by a Masters degree in Hydrology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Recently, he finished his self-funded PhD project on groundwater dynamics during drought in Freiburg, before joining…
Sally was a post-doc researcher working with Anne Van Loon on the NWO funded project ‘Adding the human dimension to hydrological drought’ (2015-2018). The project was looking to quantify the human influence on hydrological droughts. The focus was to improve our understanding of how human activities can aggravate or alleviate drought characteristics, using observation data…
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Colin was a PhD student working under Martin Widmann and Anne Van Loon, who graduated in 2019. Prior to starting the PhD, he studied Environmental Science at University College Cork before going on to complete an MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology in Birmingham. Colin worked as part of an international collaborative project called CE:LLO…
Ruben was the mangrove expert of the research group in 2018-19. He studied mangrove restoration, looking at the complex process from a financial, socio-economical and environmental point of view. His project was related to the Forest Edge doctoral scholarship, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. After his MSc at the KU Leuven (Belgium), Ruben worked for…
Lucinda was a PhD student with a passion for flood research. Lucinda began her studies at the University of Chester with a BSc in Geography and Natural Hazard Management. Following a dissertation thesis based on the use of Property Level Flood Protection in Worcestershire, Lucinda continued her studies in this area and completed a MSc…
I joined the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2015, as part of the IMPREX project. My PhD research investigated how climate variability can be used as early warning predictors of flood and agricultural drought impacts, and as drivers of risk financing mechanisms. From 2020 to 2023 I was a postdoctoral…
Read more Dr Gabriela Guimarães Nobre – now at UN World Food Programme
Katie is a PhD student in the School of Geography and the Environment based at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on drought predictability in Central America, which includes an examination of the usefulness of forecasts for decision-making. Other elements of Katie’s research will assess model uncertainty and the impacts of uncertainty on…
Marlies is a lecturer at King’s College London and affliated with the Water and Climate Risk Group at IVM – VU as visiting researcher. Until August 2023 she was working as a postdoctoral researcher at IVM, modelling human-water systems experiencing drought-to-flood events as part of the PerfectSTORM project. Marlies’ interests focus on the interactions between…
Read more Dr Marlies Barendrecht – Now a lecturer at King’s College London
Hydrological extremes @ Amsterdam 