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PhD Candidates
Mark completed his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, graduating cum laude from the University of Twente. After working for the Municipality of Enschede in 2020, he began his Master’s in Civil Engineering with a focus on Water Management at Delft University of Technology. He graduated in 2023 with a thesis titled “Long-term water balance of a combined capillary barrier-methane oxidizing landfill cover system,” which involved analysing lysimeter measurements and modeling soil moisture and evapotranspiration.
In 2024, Mark started his PhD at Wageningen University, focusing on soil-water-atmosphere-plant relations under the daily supervision of Ruud Bartholomeus. The aim of this PhD project is to update drainage standards for agriculture in the Netherlands. To make these standards more robust for the future Dutch climate, they will be optimised to prevent both too wet and dry conditions, while also accounting for the interests of various stakeholders in the Dutch water system.
Marios graduated with honors from the Integrated Master’s program at the Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2021. His Diploma Thesis involved creating a Groundwater (GW) Flow and Transport model dataset using Flopy/Modflow, which was used to train Machine/Deep Learning algorithms for groundwater pollution source identification and monitoring network pseudo-optimization.
From 2022 to 2024, he worked as a Groundwater Modeller (GWM) at WSP in the UK, where he developed his skills by interacting with regional models that combine Surface-Water (SW) (4R) and GW (MF) components. In July 2024, he began his PhD titled “Hydrological Modelling of GW-SW Interactions” at Utrecht University, part of the WaterScape project. This project’s goal is to quantify the impacts of climate change scenarios on water availability and develop solutions involving modelling, water systems, and regulations.
Noor Hendriks holds a bachelor and master degree in International Land and Water Management at Wageningen University. She worked for two years at the Water Authority of Limburg, working on projects for flood protection.
In 2024, she started with her PhD at the Public Administration and Policy chair-group at Wageningen University, supervised by Wieke Pot and Art Dewulf. Her research is part of WaterScape’s work package four: governance systems. The aim of the project is to develop transformation pathways for climate-adaptive water governance systems in the Netherlands.
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