Chris is a glaciologist in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the interactions between glacier retreat, proglacial lake formation, and iceberg calving dynamics in the Lunana region of Bhutan. By combining numerical modeling with field observations, he aims to better assess local environmental risks — […]
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Katrina is a postdoctoral researcher working on the MegaWat project, where she studies how mountain regions across Europe buffer against downstream droughts using land surface process modeling. She completed her PhD at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, studying the tectonic evolution of mountain landscapes and how long-term geomorphic dynamics influence biodiversity […]
René Wijngaard currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded DROP project, using the WRF (Weather Research & Forecasting) model to understand the drivers and origins of high-altitude precipitation at different scales in High Mountain Asia. He received his PhD degree in Physical Geography at Utrecht University in 2019, […]
Aris is a physical geographer in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University. For his PhD project, he will investigate high-altitude precipitation patterns in High Mountain Asia. His research focuses on the effects of orography, climate systems, and land usage on valley scale precipitation patterns. To achieve this, he will […]
Raeven is a PhD candidate in the mountain hydrology group focusing on synoptic scale orographic precipitation processes in the Himalaya, Karakoram and Pamir mountain ranges. She will investigate the interaction between the extreme topography of these mountains with large scale atmospheric processes through a combination of field measurements, remote sensing, […]
Brecht D’Haeyer (MSc.) is a hydrologist and water resources engineer with 3 years of experience in surface water (irrigation engineering, river engineering, lock engineering) and groundwater (saline agriculture, droughts, pumping test analyses). He has worked both for the public and private industry in Belgium, Bangladesh, Burundi, India, Myanmar, and Tajikistan. […]
Leon is a PhD candidate in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University. For his PhD project he focuses on the effect that mountain greening has on the hydrology in the Meretschi catchment in the Swiss Alps. During the project he will combine lab work, fieldwork, experiments and modelling to […]
Florian is a glaciologist in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University. For his PhD project, he studies calving glaciers in Greenland, focusing on lake-terminating glaciers and their response to the climate crisis. He combines satellite and UAV remote sensing, numerical modelling, and field methods to investigate the role of […]
Caroline’s work focuses on understanding how mountain catchments, specifically ones with glaciers, are changing in a warming climate and how that affects the downstream water supply. She completed her Ph.D. in at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2022, during which she assessed the changes in the hydrology of glacierized basins […]