Curriculum vitae

Positions

• since 2019: Senior researcher, Urban Climatology, Institute of Geography, Ruhr-University Bochum
• since 2018: CEO & Founder of Kode VOF - Building Blocks For A Better Future
• since 2018: Affiliated Researcher, Ghent University and Leuven University
• 2016 to 2018: Post-doctoral Researcher, the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent University
• 2010 to 2016: Post-doctoral Researcher, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) & Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Leuven University
• 2009 to 2010: Post-doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Leuven University
• 2005 to 2009: PhD student, Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IWT) & Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Leuven University

Education

• 2019 to 2020: Astropeneurs Space Startup Accelerator (H2020)
• 2016: Big Data: Management, Analysis, Visualization and Legal Aspects, Ghent University, Belgium
• 2013 to 2013: Postgraduate on Integrated Innovative Sustainable Construction & Renovation, PXL University College, Hasselt, Belgium
• 2005 to 2009: PhD in Exact Sciences, Dissertation: A downscaling approach for air quality at a mid-latitude site using circulation patterns and surface meteorology, Faculty of Science, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2003 to 2004: Master (M.Sc.) in Environmental Management and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 2001 to 2003: Master (M.Sc.) in Physical Geography, Faculty of Science, KU Leuven, Belgium
• 1999 to 2001: Candidate (B.Sc.) in Physical Geography, Faculty of Science, KU Leuven, Belgium

International training schools

• Introduction to Machine Learning Algorithms (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Climate Informatics Workshop & hackathon (NCAR, Boulder (USA)
• Earth System monitoring and modeling (ESA, Italy)
• 1st ISSMES: The MPI-M earth system modelling framework (MPI Hamburg, Germany)
• Water Sensitive Cities Winter School (Monash University, Australia)
• Urban Physics (Limassol, Cyprus / Halkidiki, Greece

E-Learning

• Management of Urban Infrastructures
• Data Science and Machine Learning with Python
• Taming Big Data with Apache Spark
• Learning Python for Data Analysis and Visualization
• Java Tutorial for Complete Beginners

Memberships

• EGU
• AGU
• IAUC

Courses

Current:

• MeMo II Urban Climate (M.Sc.)

Past:

• Introduction to python programming and geospatial analysis (M.Sc.)
• Introductiont o computer programming in a spatial context (Python, QGIS) (B.Sc.)
• Spatial Analysis Techniques (R, ArcGIS) (B.Sc.)
• Atmospheric Modelling (M.Sc.)
• General Physical Geography (B.Sc.)

Projects

• BCC: Balneário Camboriú Climate Project
• CORDEX FPS ELVIC: climate extremes in the lake Victorian Basin
• CORDEX FPS Urban: URBan environments and Regional Climate Change (URB-RCC)
• COST CA20108: FAIR NEtwork of micrometeorological measurements
• ENLIGHT: Enabling the Analysis of Global urban Heat
• URBAN PLUMBER: A multi-site model evaluation project for urban areas
• WUDAPT: The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools Project

Theses

PhD supervision & support

• Jorn Van de Velde (2018-now):Stochastic modelling of future extreme discharges as a tool for water resources engineering
• Jonas Van de Walle (2017-now): Climate extremes in the lake Victoria region: The role of urban- and lake-induced dynamics
• Michiel Maertens (2017-now): The impact of vegetation changes on soil moisture over the Dry Chaco
• Marie-Leen Verdonck (2017-2018): Local Climate zones in Belgium, mapping and modelling in function of Urban Heat Islands
• Oscar Brousse (2016-now): Modelling the urban climate in Africa
• Jeroen Degerickx (2015-2019): A remote sensing based characterization of urban green elements to facilitate ecosystem service assessment of the urban environment
• Niels Souverijns (2015-2019): Precipitation and clouds over Antarctica from an observational and modelling perspective
• Fabien Chatterjee (2012-2020): The effect of wind farms on the regional climate
• Ashley Broadbent (2011-2015): The effect of water sensitive urban design and outdoor water-use practices on urban microclimate
• Erwan Brisson (2009-2015): Towards high-resolution climate projections for Belgium: Combining convection permitting models with statistical downscaling techniques
• Annemarie Devis (2010-2014): Wind energy in Europe under future climate conditions. The statistical downscaling of a CMIP5 model ensemble
• Hendrik Wouters (2010-2014): Improving urban land-cover parametrization in regional climate models: The role of urban aerodynamic, thermal and radiative properties, anthropogenic heat and water retention