Inger Bij de Vaate

Inger Bij de Vaate is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. She holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology (2022) and an MSc from Utrecht University (2018). Her research focuses on climate-cryosphere-ocean interactions, with expertise in physical modeling and remote sensing data analysis. Currently, she contributes to the ERC-funded GLACMASS project, modeling global glacier mass changes.

Education:

• PhD (2022): Department of Geosciences and Remote Sensing, TU Delft
• MSc Marine Sciences (2018): Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
• BSc Future Planet Studies (2016): University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Inger explores climate dynamics, glaciology, and oceanography, with a focus on integrating machine learning and remote sensing techniques. Her work bridges cryosphere processes and their broader environmental impacts, particularly in Arctic and alpine regions.

Projects & Grants:

• ERC Advanced Grant GLACMASS (2024–present)
• Postdoctoral research at TU Delft (2023)

Labs/Teams: Active contributor to the GLACMASS project team, focusing on global glacier modeling and cryosphere-climate interactions.