Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa focuses on understanding Himalayan snowpacks, their hydrological responses to global warming, their associated climate feedbacks, and the implications of these changes for regional water security. Before starting his PhD, he worked for nearly eight years at ICIMOD, an intergovernmental organization based in Nepal. His work there centered […]
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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 […]
Darwin is a PhD candidate in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University, working at the interface of Physical Geography and Earth Sciences. His PhD investigates Himalayan precipitation change using leaf wax lipid biomarkers (n-alkanes) and their hydrogen isotopic composition (δ2Hwax) preserved in lake sediments. He investigates past Indian Summer […]
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 — […]
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, […]
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 […]