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 […]
Designation: PhD candidate
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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 […]
Pranisha has a background in Civil Engineering specialising in Hydropower and with four years of experience working in Nepal’s Hydropower sector, she is passionate about water resources. Pursuing a master’s at IHE Delft, the Netherlands focused on Hydrology and Water resource further fueled her research interest and now she is […]
Esther has a background in hydrology and ecology, having completed her studies at Wageningen University in 2020. After finishing her degree, she started working as a researcher at KWR Water, where she focused on projects related to ecohydrology and drought in the Netherlands. For her PhD project, Esther will be […]
Varvara (Varya) Bazilova is a hydrologist by training interested in the cryosphere and remote sensing. She obtained her BSc degree in hydrometeorology from Lomonosov Moscow State University with the thesis related to the estimation of the suspended sediment budget in a pro glacier river and MSc degree in geosciences from […]
Sanita is a water resources engineer passionate about the use of decision support systems and integrated models for evidence-based policy and decision making in water resources management. She leads Work Package 2 under the SustaIndus project that will explore the water-energy linkages of the larger water-energy-food nexus in the Indus […]