Thesis

Since I am working at Wageningen University, I have supervised numerous master students for both their thesis and internship. Examples of their master theses are provided below.

On going:

Noemi Barbieri: Improving EFAS’s decision-making on formal fluvial flood notification with machine learning
Iris van Veldhuisen: How dutch governmental organizations deal with droughts and heatwaves?
Ekky Amiral Faqi: Developing landslide thresholds based on rainfall and soil moisture for Indonesian Landslide Early Warning System
Elieke Pontman: The feasibility of blue-green infrastructure in Dordrecht: linking urban drainage capacity and municipal visions
Robbi Ramadhan: Comparing WOFOST and machine learning for cross-regional yield prediction under climate variability

Climate Services:

Rients Visser: Leaving no one behind: inclusive climate adaptation through migrant-inclusive flood risk reduction and EWS in Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Saee Ghule: Bridging the gap between EWS and community response to urban flooding in India
Jacqueline Banken: Towards Gender-Responsive Weather and Climate Information Services: An Evaluation of Local and Scientific Forecasts in Northern Ghana
Alexander van Gaans: Evaluating the rainfall and soil moisture forecasts based on statistical metrics and farmers perceptions in Bangladesh
Nick Vellis: Weather and Climate Information Services for Smallholder Farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana

Natural Hazards and hydrology:

Jean Gohin: A global analysis of future compound flood-drought events under climate change
Noor Bosman: Modelling of drought-induced cascading risks in the Swedish food supply chain
Bart Oversteegen: Integrating RS and machine learning (SVM-SVR) for hydrological discharge predictions in data-limited areas
Yamuna Jiwaningrat: The changing of flood characteristics as a response to spatial planning scenario in the new capital of Indonesia
Lan Remeta: Multi-risk assessment for flood and drought in Bengaluru, India
Steven Aerts: Urban flood risk and mitigation in a changing climate
Ari Kusumawardhani: Drought-flood compound and cascading event in Java Island
Roosmarijn Heesterbeek: The effectiveness of wetlands as an NBS in mitigating the impacts of compounding hazards
Tijmen Koenen: Climate change effect on compound floods and droughts in Europe
Pilar Reija Zamora: Compound effect of high river discharge, heavy rainfall, and storm surge leading to coastal flooding in Europe
Wahdan Syaehuddin: Forecasting hydrological drought in Europe using precipitation data
Susana Berenice Zarzoza Mora: Assessing the Impact of Compound Drought and Heatwave on Maize Crop Yield in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Matthijs Janssen: The cascading effects of wildfires on flooding
Luca Sarobe De Macina: Developing a climate information service framework for dry hazards and their impacts in Europe
Adi Martha Kurniawan: Water Stress Assessment in the Brantas River Basin Indonesia
Janey Sierat: Can we forecast drought impacts on European rivers months ahead?
Merve Gülveren: The characteristics of future European drought and heatwave events
Melati van der Weert: Predicting future drought impacts occurrence using probabilistic hydro-meteorological forecasting data
Tesa van Hateren: Evaluating the skill of seasonal drought forecasts in Catalonia