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 humans and water. She is interested in understanding how hydrology and hydrological extremes influence society and how society’s response and actions in turn influence the hydrology. She studies human-water systems using a variety of methods including the analysis of empirical data (both quantitative and qualitative), quantitative modelling of human-water systems, and the integration of empirical data and models.

Previously, Marlies worked at the University of Cambridge on a study of flood resilience of the road transport network in Queensland, Australia as part of the Safer Complex Systems project funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation.

Marlies obtained her PhD from the Technical University of Vienna where she was working on the integration of empirical data into the socio-hydrological modelling of the human-flood system. She holds a MSc. in Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management from both Delft University of Technology and the National University of Singapore and a BSc. in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

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