Meet the team
The LOSS team is led by dr. Esther Stouthamer and dr. Gilles Erkens.
They are supported substantively by the steering committee, which includes the leaders of the LOSS work packages and representatives of the other scientific partners:
- Esther Stouthamer (UU, chair)
- Gilles Erkens (UU/Deltares)
- Ramon Hanssen (WP1) (TUD)
- Mariet Hefting (WP2) (UU)
- Hans-Peter Weikard (WP3) (WUR)
- Peter Driessen (WP4) (UU)
- Dries Hegger (UU)
- Mandy Korff (TUD/Deltares)
- Jan Rots (TUD)
- Kim Cohen (UU)
- Jan van den Akker (WEnR)
- Jan Willem van Groenigen (WUR)
- Marleen van Rijswick (UU)
- Frank Groothuijse (UU)
- Peter Fokker (TNO/UU)
- Kay Koster (TNO)
- Bernardien Tiehatten (Ambient)
- Oscar van Vliet (UU)
The research with LOSS is primarily done by the following PhD students and postdoctoral researchers:
- Philip Conroy (TUD, WP1.1)
- Manon Verberne (TNO/UU, WP1.2)
- Kim de Wit (UU, WP1.3)
- Duygu Tolunay (UU, WP2.1)
- Pepijn van Elderen (UU, WP2.2)
- Erne Blondeau (WUR, WP2.3)
- Bente Lexmond (UU, WP2.4)
- Tom de Gast (TUD, WP2.5)
- Seyed Hoseyni (UU, WP3.1)
- Alfonso Prosperi (TUD, WP3.2)
- Dewy Verhoeven (WUR, WP3.3)
- Nicoletta Nappo (TUD, WP4.1)
- Tom Wils (TUD, WP4.1)
- Mandy van den Ende (UU, WP4.2)
- Martijn van Gils (UU, WP4.3)
Three other people work part time on LOSS to provide support:
LOSS also has an international scientific advisory board:
- Laurent Umans, First Secretary Water Management and Climate Change at the Dutch embassy in Hanoi (Vietnam)
- Charles Aangenendt, senior policy policy maker at the Dutch Home Office in Den Haag (NL)
- Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Vokes Geology Professor at Tulane University, New Orleans (USA)
- Linda Jongbloed, programme coordinator for NWA at the Dutch National Science Foundation