Kyra is a PhD candidate part of the MountAInWater project, which aims to deliver a global reanalysis and future projections of the mountain water cycle. Kyra’s PhD focuses on the Himalaya, and she uses land-surface modeling and field measurements to investigate non-linear feedbacks and tipping points that can cause abrupt transitions in the water balance.

During her MSc in Earth and Environment at Wageningen University, Kyra specialized in hydrology, with a focus on groundwater flow in complex hydrogeological settings. During this time, she conducted extensive geophysical fieldwork to characterize the hydrogeology of the push moraines around Wageningen. Her MSc thesis focused on the former mining area in the Netherlands, where she used a regional groundwater model to study the effects of rising mine water on shallow groundwater levels and flood risk. She also completed a research internship at Université Laval in Canada, where she set up a benchmarking framework to study reactive mass transport in cryo-hydrogeological models. As the final part of her MSc program, she spent four months at KWR Water Research Institute in the ecohydrology team to learn more about ecohydrology in practice.