Ongoing:
I. Rimbaud Lapperre: Faults and groundwater flow, southern Netherlands
II. Kathleen Gersie: Spatial and temporal adjustment of fluvial systems to natural and anthropogenic controls: The Suriname and Coppename Rivers, northern South America
III: Hao Chen: Anthropogenic and climatic controls on fluvial systems in central China (jointly with Nanjing university)
IV: Ewerton da Silvan Guimares: The effect of the Mid-Pleistocene climate revolution on the Maas-Rhine rivier system (ITN S2S Future)
V: Rosa Westra: Unravelling the Holocene history of the Southern Westerlies: driver of global
climate and the carbon cycle (project leader: Nathalie van der Putten)
VI: Piritta Stark: Sedimentological setting of early human environments (jointly with Helsinki University; project leaders Maarten Prins, Kay Beets)
VII: Nina van Leeuwen: Flood records in Meuse and Vecht valleys (project leader Willem Toonen)
VIII: Matheus Wanderley de Almeida: Rivers in Calabria (project leader Benjamin Campforts)
Completed
Promotor:
18. Hans van Hateren (2023): Sediment in motion
17: Hessel Woolderink (2021): Faulty rivers. The effect of faulting on river morphodynamics and morphology.
16: Fei Peng (2020): A 13,000-year record of climate- and human-impact-induced flooding in the Lower Meuse
15: Yuan Shang (2018): Provenance and sedimentology of Red Clay and loess in Northern China, double promotion with Helsinki University.
14. Daniel Rits (2017): Quaternary environmental evolution of the Weihe Basin (China), double promotion with Nanjing Normal University
Co-promotor:
13. Danielle Kitover (2016): Permafrost in climate modeling
12. Kurt Martin Stange (2014): Climatic and tectonic controls on river incision and Quaternary terrace staircase formation in the Pyrenees
11. Xianyan Wang (2014): Climatic and tectonic controls on the fluvial morphology of the northeaster Tibetan Plateau (China)
10. Wim Viveen (2013): Multi-scale tectonic controls on fluvial terrace formation in a glacio-eustatically-dominated river system: inferences from the lower Miňo terrace record (Wageningen University)
9. Elco Luijendijk (2012): The role of fluid flow in the thermal history of sedimentary basins (Roer Valley Graben)
8. Philip Ward (2009): Simulating discharge and sediment yield characteristics in the Meuse basin during the late Holocene and 21st century
7. Freek Busschers (2008): Unravelling the Rhine, response of a fluvial system to climate change, sea-level oscillation and glaciation
6. Gwendolyn Peters (2007): Active tectonics in the Upper Rhine Graben, Integration of paleoseismology, geomorphology, and geomechanical modeling
5. Jos de Moor (2007): Human impact on Holocene catchment development and fluvial processes, the Geul River catchment, SE Netherlands
4. Victor Bense (2004): The hydraulic properties of faults in unconsolidated sediments and their impact on groundwater flow, a study in the Roer Valley Rift System and adjacent areas in the Lower Rhine Embayment
3. Rob Houtgast (2003): Quaternary tectonic and fluvial evolution of the Roer Valley Rift System, the Netherlands
2. Patrick Bogaart (2003): Process-based modelling of the fluvial response to rapid climate change, with reference to the River Maas during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
1.Tore Skar (2000): The influence of intraplate stresses on basin subsidence and fluid pressure evolution of Haltenbanken, mid-Norwegian margin
PhD exam-committees and defenses:
34. Sander Hilgen (2024): On the origin of samples and specimens
33: Selcuk Aksay (2023): Shaking Good Land(scape)s into Bad Lands The role of inherited tectonic structure (Wageningen University)
32. Tim Winkels (2023): Embracing subsurface heterogeneity (Utrecht University)
31. Jan Verhagen (2022): Tussen de Dam van Drusus en de Zuilen van Hercules (Geo-archeology).
30. Maarten Groenendijk (2021). Piles in the picture. A study of the physical disturbance and archaeological information loss caused by piling through archaeological sites and features, based on photographs
29. Francois Beny (2020). High resolution study of the deep-water Southern Ocean circulation during the last climatic cycle using geochemical and mineralogical proxies in marine sediments: implication for the CO2 cycle
28. Huan Li (2020). Modelling climate-vegetation interactions during the last and current interglacials
27. Lars Jan Noorbergen (2019). Fluvial responses to orbital-forced climate changes in the North American Western Interior Early Paleocene
26. Jan Peeters (2018). The Eemian interglacial Rhine system in The Netherlands (Utrecht University)
25. Michelle van der Does (2018). Saharan dust from a marine perspective
24. Lorenzo Gemignani (2018). Extracting erosion and exhumation patterns from detrital thermochronology
23. Kay Koster (2017). 3D Characterization of Holocene peat in the Netherlands (Utrecht University)
22. Yurui Zhang (2017). Holocene temperature trends in the northern Hemisphere extratropics.
21. Xilin Sun (2017). Provenance and evolution of the Yangtze river constrained by detrital minerals.
20. Cinzia Berritella (2017). Wetland methane emissions during the Last Glacial climate warmin
19. Myrsini Gkouma (2017). Paleolandscape reconstruction at the lake lake dwelling site of Dispilio, Northwestern Greece: a geoarcheological approach.
18. Don van den Biggelaar (2017). New land, old history: past landscape and hominin activity covering the last 220.000 years in Flevoland, the Netherlands.
17. Noortje Hobo (2105). The sedimentary dynamics in natural and human-influenced delta channel belts (Utrecht University)
16. Wouter Marra (2015). Martian groundwater outflow processes and morphology (Utrecht University)
15. Andrea Forzoni (2015). Transmission of climate, sea-level, and tectonic signals across river systems (TU Delft)
14. Nils Broothaerts (2014 en 2015). Sensitivity in floodplain geoecology to human impact in the Dijle catchment. (KU Leuven/ VU University Amsterdam)
13. R.H. Kars (2014), Referee and committee member, title: Luminescence at the end of the tunneling (TuDelft)
12. M. Ter Borgh (2013), Member of the PhD defense committee (Utrecht University)
11. M. Caro Cuenca (2012), Referee and committee member (TuDelft,)
10. B. Yerli (2011), Referee and committee member (VU University)
9. M. Hijma (2009), Referee and committee member (Utrecht University)
8. W. Westerhoff (2009), Referee and committee member (VU University)
7. Z. Ruszkiczay-Rudiger (2007), Referee and committee member (VU University)
6. A.-P. Van den Berg van Saparoea (Utrecht University, 2005), Member of the PhD defense committee
5. G. Worum (2004), Referee and committee member (VU University)
4. J. Foeken (2004), Member of the PhD defense committee (VU University)
3. H. Verweij (2003), Referee and committee member (VU University)
2. L. Lenkey (1999), Referee and committee member (VU University)
1. A. Lankreijer (1998), Member of the PhD defense committee (VU University)