PhD-candidates:

• Liduin Bos-Burgering (2023-ongoing, PhD TU Delft) “Quantification of actual evaporation, local advection and drought effects”
• Ingrid Ubeda Trujillo (2022-ongoing, PhD IHE/TU Delft) “Exploring the spatial-temporal patterns of flash drought using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing indexes: a case study in Central America”
• Ibrahim Muhammed (2022-ongoing, PhD TU Delft) “The hydrological effects of vegetation under climate change in mountainous catchments”
• Luuk van der Valk (2021-ongoing, PhD TU Delft) “Opportunistic rainfall and evaporation sensing”
• Bas Walraven (2021-ongoing, PhD TU Delft) “Opportunistic rainfall sensing”
• Henry Zimba (2023, PhD TU Delft) “Evaporation of the miombo woodland of southern Africa: A phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based evaporation estimates”
• Bart Schilperoort (2022, PhD TU Delft) “Heat exchange in a conifer canopy: a deep look using fiber optic sensors“
• César Dionisio Jiménez Rodriguez (2020, PhD TU Delft) “Evaporation partitioning of forest stands: The role of forest structure”

Visiting scientists:

• Arianna Borriero (2021, visiting PhD from UFZ Helmholtz, Germany): “Interactions between transit times and vegetation water use”
• Livia Rosalem (2019-2020, visiting PhD from University of Sao Paulo, Brasil): Measuring and modelling of forest floor interception.
• Stefanie Lutz (2018-2019, visiting PostDoc from UFZ Helmholtz, Germany)
• Moein Sadeghi (2017-2018, visiting PhD from University of Tehran, Iran): Estimating rainfall interception using Artificial Neural Network in needle-leaved afforestations
• João Henrique Macedo Sá (2017, visiting PhD from Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC, Brazil): forest floor interception
• Yan Haofang (2017-2018, visiting research associate from Jiangsu University, China)
• Chuan Zhang (2017-2018, visiting research associate from Jiangsu University, China)
• Erika Vatiero (2017, visiting PhD from Second University of Naples, Italy): isotopes
• Laura Sepulveda (2016, traineeship Polytech Montpellier, France): isotopes
• Elisabetta Giuditta (2015, visiting PhD from Second University of Naples, Italy) “Measuring forest floor interception with stable water isotopes in pre-scribed burned forests”
• Ameneh Mianabadi (2015, visiting PhD from Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran) “Budyko framework at global scale”
• Rafa Perez (2014, visiting PhD from Cordoba University, Spain) “Interception of Cistus trees”

Doctoral committee member (excluding own supervised PhD-candidates):

• 2023 Hubert T. Samboko “Remote river rating in Zambia – Exploring opportunities for ungauged basins through low-cost technological innovations“, TU Delft, NL
• 2022 Gunther Carl Liebhard “Partitioning evapotranspiration for assessing water use in relation to agricultural management practices”, BOKU Vienna, Austria
• 2022 Felipe Lobos Roco “Evaporation in the Atacama Desert”, Wageningen University, NL
• 2021 Johanna Clara Metzger “Hotspots of soil water movement induced by vegetation canopies”, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
• 2020 Samuale Tesfaye Baye “Climate change and ecohydrological dynamics of Upper Nile basin in Ethiopia: the Tekeze River basin case”, Wageningen University, NL.
• 2020 Marta Antonelli “Tracing hydrological connectivity” Wageningen University, NL
• 2018 Anna Solcerova “Water as a coolant for cities”, TU Delft, NL
• 2017 Lan Wang-Erlandsson “Root for rain. Towards understanding land-use change impacts on the water cycle”, TU Delft, NL

MSc-students:

• Abdullah Soffo (ongoing, MSc, TU Delft): “Performance Assessment of Sustainable Urban Drainage System Swale in Utrecht Netherlands”
• Feyco Gratama (ongoing, MSc, TU Delft): “Role of vegetation during droughts in urban areas”
• Max van Dun (ongoing, MSc, TU Delft): “Climate Adaptation Measures Kaag-Braassem”
• Maxine Luger (ongoing, MSc, TU Delft): “Evaporation and heat storage in Loobos”
• Ying Yin (ongoing, MSc, TU Delft):”Transpiration of tomatoes”
• Salma M. Elshourbagy (2023, MSc, IHE): “Regionalization of water balance characteristics for the Mara River Basin”
• Cilia Boot, Floris Hilmer, Adinda Jongkind, Pieter van Leeuwen, Ruben Rosman (2023, MDP, TU Delft): “A Study into Cloud Forests The installation of a long-term setup to investigate the impact of a cloud forest canopy on the Mestelá River catchment and its effect on various stakeholders”
• Clara Zeh (2023, MSc, TU Delft): “Developments in Heat and Water Balance Coupling for Micro-Climate Modelling of Urban Squares under the Influence of Greening – A Review and Case Study”
• Anika Vroom (2023, MSc, TU Delft): “Chaos in the canopy. Unraveling Uses of Fiber Optics in the Forest
• Judith Straathof (2023, additional thesis, TU Delft): “Providing water for livestock and crop production to a rural area in Bonaire using reverse osmosis”
• Sekouba Kamara (2023, MSc, IHE): ”Modelling the Effects of Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Mara River Basin”
• Guus Wiersma (2023, MSc, TU Delft): “Rainwater harvesting for smallholder farmers in
  northern Ghana”
• Gijs Vis (2022, MSc, TU Delft): “Spatial temperature measurements and turbulence analysis using DTS in the LIAISE field campaign“
• Niels Hoogendoorn & Max Kasteel (2022, additional thesis, TU Delft): “Flash floods in Cebu: monitoring, modelling and preventing”
• Casper Pierik (2022, MSc, TU Delft): “The impact of an additional phenology model on the performance of conceptual hydrological models“
• Koen Harms (2022, MSc, TU Delft): “An analysis of four different models for quantifying tomato transpiration in a soilless greenhouse“
• Ibrahim Turay (2022, MSc, IHE): “Low flow analysis of the Mara River Basin”
• Piet Storm (2022, MSc, TU Delft): “Water balance-based approach to improve understanding of Drought Development: by calculating the root storage deficit“
• Yang Zhao (2021, MSc, TU Delft): “Do multi-year droughts increase floods?“
• Okay Mert (2021, MSc, TU Delft): “The Impact of Vegetation on the Partitioning of Evaporation in Conceptual Hydrological Models“
• Rik Verboeket (2021, MSc, TU Delft): “Buffering fresh water at the Volkerak-Zoommeer to mitigate drought: Developing a Decision Support System to evaluate the potential of temporarily heightening of the water level“
• Zhechan Zhong (2021, MSc, IHE): “Climate change impact on water availability in the Toluca Valley in Mexico”
• Dimos Touloumidis (2021, additional thesis, TU Delft): “Development of a temperature-based potential evaporation algorithm for supporting integrated and global-scale climate classifications“
• Maurice Shorachi (2021, MSc, TU Delft): “Investigating the influence of drought on Sentinel-1 C-band SAR data over agricultural crops: A study in the Netherlands“
• Stijn van Terwisga (2020, MSc, TU Delft): “The aftermath of multiyear droughts: A case study in Australia“
• Rutger Weijers (2020, MSc, TU Delft): ” Drought indicators in The Netherlands. A case study to support anticipative drought management“
• Mengya Wei (2020, MSC, TU Delft): “Influence of Climate and Vegetation on Root Zone Storage Capacity. A case study in Australia“
• Kathelijne Beenen (2020, MSc, TU Delft): “An assessment on field-scale spatial variability of sugarcane yield with satellite derived vegetation indices and evapotranspiration products: A case study on sugarcane fields in Mozambique“.
• Sylvia van Doorn (2020, MSc, TU Delft) “The underlying processes of evaporative changes. Within the transition period in the Miombo Woodlands, Mpika, Zambia in 2018“
• Nicael Jooste (2020, MSc, TU Delft): “Investigating the MetOp ASCAT vegetation parameters“.
• Manish Kharagjitsing (2020, MSc, TU Delft): “Optimizing Support Vector Machines with ISBA-A-gs Land Surface Variables as a Surrogate Model to Simulate ASCAT Derived Parameters“
• Daan Rooze (2020, MSc, TU Delft): “Borrowed Land: Reframing the relation between flood and drought adaptation efforts with the built environment in New Orleans“
• Manuel Huber (2019, MSc, TU Delft): “Development of a Deep Learning Surrogate Model to Simulate MetOp ASCAT Observations with Land Surface Parameters“.
• Zinky Bhusal (2019, MSc, IHE) “Evaluation of global rainfall products for runoff simulation in the Narayani Basin using SWAT”
• You Wu (2019, MSc, IHE) “Identification of optimal SWAT model structure for hydrological modeling of Wei River basin in China”
• Barnabas Wathiai Mugo (2019, MSc, IHE) “Analysis of the Hydro-Meteorological Observation Network of the Mara River Basin in Kenya and Tanzania”
• Geiske de Groot (2019, MSc, TU Delft): “Hysteresis in the evapotranspiration – Vapor Pressure Deficit Relation“
• Ashwini Petchiappan (2019, MSc, TU Delft) “Active microwave remote sensing of the Amazon forest region“
• Judith Straathof (2018, additional thesis, TU Delft) “Providing water for livestock and crop production to a rural area in Bonaire using reverse osmosis”
• Justus van Ramshorst (2018, MSc, TU Delft) “Wind speed measurements using distributed fiber optics: a wind tunnel study”.
• Elma Tenner (2017, MSc, TU Delft) “The UV-LIDAR: A tool for investigating Aerosol-Cloud Interactions“
• Martijn Mulder (2017, additional thesis, TU Delft) “The effect of the imperviousness on the hydrological response time of sewer districts Rotterdam. Study based on new monitoring system by municipality of Rotterdam“.
• Maria Warter (2016-2017, additional thesis, visiting MSc from Wageningen University) “Influence of the evaporation process in the moss and litter layers and its effect on the isotope signature of the soil water”
• Tara van Iersel (2016, additional thesis TU Delft) “Verifying the BR-DTS method with hand measurements executed with the PT-100 and the Eddy Covariance Method“.
• Lynn Duijndam (2016, MSc, TU Delft) “Evaluation of two automated remote sensing-based surface energy balance models for estimating daily evapotranspiration“
• Bart Schilperoort (2016, MSc, TU Delft) “Using remote sensed actual evaporation to improve hydrological models”
• Daniël van Dijk (2016, MSc, TU Delft) “Baseflow recession, Groundwater storage and rainfall runoff processes in Inselberg topography in Messica, Manica, Mozambique: Fieldwork Conveyance and FlexTopo withOCM“
• Marieke Akerboom (2016, MSc, TU Delft) “Tornado Dectection using a Dual Polarimeteric X-band Doppler Weather Radar in The Netherlands: a case study“
• Bart Schilperoort (2016, additional thesis) “Validation of temperature and relative humidity observations by DTS”
• Emma Aalbers (2015, MSc, TU Delft) “Evaporation in conceptual rainfall-runoff models. Testing model realism using remotely sensed evaporation“
• Rutger Hofste (2014, MSc, TU Delft) “Comparative Analysis Among Near-Operational Evapotranspiration Products for the Nile Basin Based on Earth Observations“
• Cynthia Wright (2014, MSc, UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands) “Hydrological Characterization of an Agricultural Hillslope in the Upper Mara River Basin, Kenya”
• Vivian Camacho Suarez (2014, MSc, UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands) “Identification and quantification of runoff components in the Kaap catchment, South Africa”
• Arjan de Kloe (2013, additional thesis, TU Delft) “Estimating actual evaporation above a pine forest with DTS”
• Tim Hessels (2013, additional thesis, TU Delft) “Measuring actual evaporation above a pine forest with DTS”
• Nancy Koech (2013, MSc, UNESCO-IHE) “Surface water resources and water demand assessment in the Nyando catchment, Kenya”
• Paul Rutten (2013, MSc, TU Delft): “The urban water cycle. A case study on the Prinseneiland, Amsterdam“
• César Dionisio Jiménez Rodriguez (2012, MSc, UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands) “Investigation of plant water uptake and transpiration fluxes using stable isotopes in the semi-arid Hailiutu catchment, northwest China”
• Tim van Emmerik (2011, additional MSc thesis, TU Delft) “Partitioning of evaporation fluxes in summer and winter using stable isotope approach“
• Samuel Jonson Sutanto (2011, MSc, UNESCO-IHE, the Netherlands) “Quantifying ineffective water fluxes within the soil-plant-atmosphere system using environmental tracer and hydrometric measurements”
• Francesca Giacomello (2009, MSc, University of Trieste, Italy) “Tecniche isotopiche per la misura dell’evaporzsione nel ciclo idrologico”
• Tatenda Tsiko (2007, MSc, University of Zimbabwe): “Measuring forest floor and canopy interception in a savannah ecosystem”

Internship students:

• Anne Versleijen (ongoing, Hydrologic): Analyzing Urban Resilience: Modeling the Impact of Natural-Based Solutions during Extreme Rain Events
• Lydia Fokke (2023, Waterschap Scheldestromen): “Dashboard Waterbalans, pilot Noord-Beveland”
• Karlijn Schoenmaker (2021, WMD) “Optimaal en robuust (natuur)watersysteem bij drinkwateronttrekking”
• Lisa Goossens (2021, TAUW) “What happened to the vegetation in the lagg in the Aamsveen during the recent dry periods? “

BSc-students:

• Rick Verkooij & Tom Hersche (2024, minor project, TU Delft): “Loobos DTS”
• Maurits Uit den Bogaard (2023, BSc, TU Delft): “De zoektocht naar de ideale hoeveelheid blad. Onderzoek naar de effecten van het verwijderen van bladeren op plantproductie en verdamping”
• Floortje van Ruth (2023, BSc, TU Delft): “Het in kaart brengen van transpiratie- verschillen bij tuinbouwgewassen”
• Gijs Rietman & Alex Kortstee & Emilian Drijver (2022, minor, TU Delft): “Assessing climate change impacts on the water balance of Cambodia with a focus on the Mekong River”
• Rosalie van Alphen & Hannah Gielen (2021, minor, TU Delft) “Interception of rainfall by trees in urban areas”
• En Ning Lai (2021, BSc, TU Delft) “The hydrological cycle’s departure from the Holocene baseline”
• Jacob Smit (2021, BSc, TU Delft) “The hydrological cycle’s departure from the Holocene baseline”
• Jim van ‘t Schip (2021, BSc, TU Delft) “Droogteprobleem in Nederland: Een analyse naar het droogteprobleem in Nederland aan de hand van de droge zomer in 2018”
• Peter Nelemans (2021, BSc, TU Delft) “A smart home for tomatoes”
• Berend Krans (2021, BSc, TU Delft) “Vertical Veggie – Transpiratie bij Vertical Farming”
• Max van Dun & Joep Huijbregts (2020, minor, TU Delft) “Zelfsturende irrigatie in kas”
• Dylan Dirks (2020, BSc, TU Delft) “Energy balance closure during droughts”
• Josine van Marrewijk (2020, BSc, TU Delft) “Digitale groene vingers. Onderzoek naar een manier om waterstress bij tomatenplanten te voorkomen”
• Ieke Knapen – Van der Gaag (2020, BSc, TU Delft) “Thirsty Tomatoes. Zoutgehalte van irrigatiewater en tomatenteelt”
• Marguérite Willemsen (2020, BSc, TU Delft) “Hoog en droog? Een studie naar de ruimtelijke variatie van het verschil tussen werkelijke en potentiële verdamping ten tijde van droogte in Nederland”
• Vincent Hoogelander (2020, BSc, TU Delft) “Thirsty Tomatoes”
• Karlijn Schoenmaker (2020, BSc, TU Delft) “Droog, droger, droogst. Het verschil tussen potentiële en werkelijke verdamping in droge jaren”
• Tom Schenau (2019, BSc, TU Delft) “Droog, droger, droogst. Wat is de invloed van droogte op het verschil tussen potentiële en werkelijke verdamping?”
• Nick van der Valk (2019, BSc, TU Delft) “Droog, droger, droogst. Verdamping in Nederland in de zomer van 2018”
• Daan Slagmolen (2018, BSc, TU Delft) “comparing lysimeters with DTS”
• Daniel Ottens (2018, BSc, TU Delft) “isotopes sampling from in-situ lysimeters”
• Laura de Vries (2018, BSc, TU Delft) “Statistiek gebiedsdekkende regenintensiteit”
• Sonny Corré (2018, minor thesis, TU Delft) “Drinking water from natural roofs”.
• Casper Boon (2017, BSc, TU Delft) “Measurement of Evaporation Using Distributed Temperature Sensing Applying the Flux-Variance Method to estimate Sensible Heat in a Forest”
• Jochem Caspers (2017, BSc, TU Delft) “A new method for measuring evaporation. Research on the Flux-Variance-DTS method to determine the sensible heat flux” (*Cees Boeter award 2017*)
• Tom Oostdijk (2016, BSc, TU Delft) “De invloed van bescherming tegen zonnestraling op verdampingsmetingen”
• Bas Walraven (2016, BSc, TU Delft) “Het effect van zonnestraling op de opwarming van glasvezelkabels. Een correctieonderzoek naar de invloed van zonnestraling op de temperatuur gemeten met DTS”
• Job Rosier (2016, BSc, TU Delft) “De invloed van straling en wind op natte glasvezelkabels”
• Natasja Oostrum (2015, BSc, TU Delft) “Validation of temperature and relative humidity observations by DTS”
• Jesse Metz (2015, BSc, TU Delft) “Singing in the rain”
• Hoatan Washian (2013, BSc, TU Delft) “Wateroverlast binnenstad Delft”
• Bernardien Tiehatten (2013, BSc, TU Delft) “Bepalen actuele verdamping met wind- en temperatuurmetingen”
• Arjan de Kloe (2012, BSc, TU Delft): “Actuele verdamping bepalen met behulp van wind- en temperatuurmetingen”
• Joël Anker (2012, BSc, TU Delft): “Het meten van de natteboltemperatuur met de DTS methode om de relatieve vochtigheid te bepalen in het open veld”
• Anne Ritsema (2007, BSc, TU Delft): “Forest Floor Interceptie”.