About
Positions
Innovation Engineer May 2017 -
Innovation Engineer at HydroScan
Researcher Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Water resources, Delft University of Technology
Researcher at Horizon2020 project WaterInnEU
Project exploration and preparation. The aim of the project is to create a market place of ICT tools, models, protocols, and policy briefs for the water sector.
PhD student Mar 2010 - Jan 2017
Water resources, Delft University of Technology
PhD research within the project Monitoring and modeling salt water intrusion in the Rhine and Yellow River deltas
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. N.C. van de Giesen
The research project was executed in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shandong Water Resources Institute
Research:
• Measuring boils (local groundwater seepage fluxes) using:
o Fiber-optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS)
o Hydrodynamic transport models (built in Fortran and Matlab) to infer the seepage flux from the measured 3D
temperature profile in the surface water above the seepage inflow
• River discharge measurements with air bubbles (rising bubble technique)
o Researching bubbles’ rising velocity and developing appropriate nozzles
o Developing a Matlab routine to derive river discharge measurements from photographs using image
processing techniques
Education:
• Supervisor of 8 BSc theses (subjects: the rising bubble technique and DTS for wind speed measurements)
• Teacher at a fieldwork course on measurement techniques in Luxembourg
Visiting researcher at Univ. of Nevada, Reno, and Oregon State Univ., Corvallis
Frequent communication of research results in diverse conferences (EGU, AGU)
Content management and reconstruction of the department’s website
Education
Delft University of Technology 2010 - 2017
Field of study: Civil Engineering (Hydrology)
Degree: PhD
Thesis: Measuring and modelling salt and heat transport in low-land drainage canals; Flow and stratification effects of saline seepage
Delft University of Technology 2007 - 2010
Field of study: Civil Engineering, master Water management, specialization Hydrology
Degree: MSc
MSc thesis ‘Closing the water balance for lake Lauwersmeer’ at HKV Consultants
Research involved data analysis of discharge gauging stations located around lake Lauwersmeer by setting up a water balance and research to experimental measurement techniques, amongst which the ‘rising bubble technique’
Delft University of Technology 2003 - 2007
Field of study: Civil Engineering
Degree: BSc
BSc thesis: ‘Salt dilution gauging’