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• Wildlife Ecology
• Conservation Biology
• Large Carnivore Behavior
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Femke Broekhuis is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Wageningen University & Research. Her research focuses on large carnivore behavior, human-wildlife interactions, and conservation strategies in African ecosystems. She specializes in understanding predator-prey dynamics, spatial ecology, and the impacts of human activities on wildlife populations. Key projects include studying cheetah activity patterns in livestock-dominated landscapes, African wild dog conservation in the Maasai Mara, and lion population monitoring in Uganda. She has co-supervised multiple PhD candidates exploring topics like brown hyena distribution, collective wildlife behavior under environmental stressors, and scavenger ecology. Her work integrates ecological modeling, citizen science, and traditional field techniques to address conservation challenges. She collaborates internationally on datasets like the Landscape Dynamics (landDX) project and has contributed to frameworks for carnivore population assessments in Kenya. Research interests: Large carnivores (cheetahs, lions, African wild dogs), human-carnivore coexistence, spatial ecology. Notable projects: Landscapes of coexistence (cheetah behavior), Uganda lion monitoring, Kenya carnivore occupancy dynamics. Collaborations: Partnerships with organizations including Cheetah Conservation Botswana and the University of Oxford.

• Hydrology
• Environmental Science
• Flood Statistics
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Svenja Fischer is an Assistant Professor in Hydrology and Environmental Hydraulics, specializing in flood statistics, hydrological modeling, and climate impact analysis. Her research focuses on understanding flood processes, regionalization of flood frequency analyses, and integrating deterministic and stochastic approaches in hydrological design. She has contributed to the development of type-based flood statistics and innovative methodologies for extreme event estimation. Her work emphasizes the analysis of flood types (e.g., rainfall vs. snowmelt-driven floods), their spatial and temporal variability, and implications for flood risk management. Key topics include design flood estimation, catchment dynamics, and the application of statistical models to improve flood prediction accuracy. Fischer has also explored the impact of climate change on flood regimes, particularly in mountainous regions and large river basins. Collaborations span international projects, including contributions to the CAMELS-NZ dataset and the development of the ordinalpattern R package for time series analysis. Her methodologies address challenges in handling autocorrelated data and incorporating historical information into extreme value analysis. While no specific grants or awards are listed, her extensive publication record reflects active engagement in both methodological innovation and applied hydrological research. Labs or teams are not explicitly mentioned, but her work aligns with interdisciplinary groups focused on statistical hydrology and environmental risk assessment. Future research directions include advancing regional flood design concepts and integrating socio-technical systems for flood resilience.

• Health and Well-Being
• Social Networks
• Public Health
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Kristina Thompson is an Assistant Professor at the Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS) within Wageningen University, specializing in Health and Society. Her research focuses on understanding how social networks influence health behaviors, aging populations, and public health interventions. Key areas of study include the social determinants of health, historical demography, and computational modeling of health systems. Her work combines epidemiological analysis with agent-based simulations, as seen in projects like the Health in All Networks Simulator (HANS) and COMMA model. She explores topics ranging from long-term care policies for disabled elderly to historical health patterns in Suriname and the Netherlands. Thompson has collaborated on interdisciplinary studies involving urban digital twins, food environment interventions, and the mental health impacts of pandemics. Notable contributions include systematic reviews on agent-based health interventions and groundbreaking studies on Dutch height trends. She actively participates in academic conferences, presenting research on historical disease databases and maternal-child survival in colonial contexts. Thompson co-supervises two active PhD projects: The Amsterdam Social Network Interventions for health Simulator and Samen Kansrijk en Gezond. Her research has been featured in media discussions about Dutch health and historical health patterns.

• Remote Sensing
• Land Cover Analysis
• Vegetation Indices
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Jan Clevers is an External employee affiliated with the Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University & Research. His research focuses on advancing remote sensing methodologies for environmental and agricultural applications, particularly in land cover analysis, vegetation indices, chlorophyll content estimation, and UAV-based monitoring. He has contributed to over 390 research outputs, including peer-reviewed articles, datasets, and collaborative projects. Clevers has supervised 22 PhD candidates, notably in projects like 'Towards Comprehensive Aquatic Land Cover Mapping' and 'UAV-Based Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurement.' His work integrates multi-source Earth observation data to address global environmental challenges, such as monitoring water stress in crops and characterizing aquatic ecosystems. Key projects include 'Measuring Sun-Induced Fluorescence Using UAV-Based Remote Sensing' and 'A Multi-Sensor Approach for Forest Biophysical Products.' Clevers has also developed datasets like 'Field Data of Monitoring Forest Phenology' and 'Diurnal UAV-Based Chlorophyll Fluorescence.' Clevers actively collaborates internationally, contributing to advancements in remote sensing technology and its applications in precision agriculture, ecological modeling, and climate research. His research emphasizes bridging gaps between satellite data and ground-based measurements to enhance environmental monitoring accuracy and utility.

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• Climate Change
• Flood Risk Management
• Sea Level Rise
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Dr. Kees van Ginkel is a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Science of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Water and Climate Risk . His research focuses on climate change impacts, flood risk management, and critical infrastructure vulnerability. He collaborates globally on projects assessing disaster resilience in coastal regions and urban environments. Affiliations: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Science Key Areas: Sea level rise, tropical cyclone adaptation, flood protection strategies Recent work includes analyzing climate adaptation in Mozambique post-Cyclone Idai and developing a global physical vulnerability database for critical infrastructure. He contributes to European climate risk assessments and explores financial stability implications of flood scenarios in low-lying regions. Publications span peer-reviewed journals like Cell Reports Sustainability and Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences , with datasets deposited in Zenodo for open access. His research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, integrating engineering, economics, and policy to address climate-related challenges in infrastructure resilience and disaster preparedness.

Federico PianzolaView profile

Assistant Professor

• Digital Social Reading
• Computational Literary Studies
• Cultural Analytics
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Federico Pianzola is an Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. He leads the ERC Starting Grant project GOLEM, focusing on narrative evolution through graphs and ontologies. His research bridges literary studies with computational methods, examining digital social reading platforms like Wattpad and fanfiction communities. He serves as Vice President of IGEL and on the scientific board of OPERAS. Research interests include narrative absorption models, virtual reality's impact on reading, and cultural analytics. He explores how readers interact with digital texts, using mixed-methods approaches. Notable projects include analyzing reader engagement on social platforms and developing ontologies for narrative representation. Recent publications (2024) highlight cross-cultural reader response analysis, gender dynamics in fanfiction, and knowledge graph applications for literary studies. His work integrates computational tools with humanities scholarship to advance understanding of narrative evolution and digital reading practices. Grants: ERC Starting Grant (GOLEM) Affiliations: OPERAS Scientific Board, IGEL Vice President Key Projects: GOLEM-Knowledge Graph, Linked-Potter Ontology

Helder NakayaView profile

Associate Professor

• Systems Biology
• Vaccinology
• Computational Biology
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Prof. Helder Nakaya is Deputy Director at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, USA. His expertise lies in Systems Vaccinology, integrating systems-wide measurements, network analysis, and predictive modeling to study vaccine-induced immunity and infectious diseases. Education: PhD in Molecular Biology with training in Bioinformatics. His research focuses include Systems Biology , Vaccinology , and Computational Immunology , with contributions to understanding immune responses to Yellow Fever, Influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. His lab develops data-driven approaches for infectious disease mechanisms. Recent publications highlight his work in machine learning for health data , network analysis in immunology , and mechanistic studies of sepsis and COVID-19 . He serves as an academic editor and reviewer for journals like PeerJ.

• Historical Geography
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Cultural Heritage
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T.M. van den Brink is a researcher affiliated with the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology , specializing in historical geography, GIS, and cultural heritage. Their work explores the intersection of urban planning, maritime studies, and landscape evolution through collaborative projects like PortCityFutures and the Lorentz Conference. Their research output focuses on reconstructing historical maps (e.g., Het Nederland van Blaeu ), analyzing urban-water systems in Holland, and developing datasets like the Petroleumscape Database . Publications emphasize interdisciplinary methodologies, including GIS applications for heritage preservation and spatial analysis of port cities. Van den Brink has contributed to 6 research outputs (2 articles, 3 web publications, and 1 report) and participated in 2 activities, including a workshop on maritime mindsets (2020) and a conference on green energy maps (2019). Collaborations span institutions like Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed and TU Delft, with a focus on Netherlands-specific case studies.