Profile programme leader

Suzanne Hulscher – Water

From 2002 Prof dr Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher is head of the group Water Engineering & Management. She received her PhD-grade in 1996 at the faculty Physics and Astronomy, on the topic modelling of bed patterns in coastal seas. The research was conducted at WL|Delft Hydraulics and IMAU, Utrecht University. Hereafter she held several scientific positions within the Cluster Civil Technology & Management at the University of Twente, from 2002 she holds the chair Physics of Watersystems. As guest scientist she stayed in Canada and Spain. In 2002 she won the Minerva-award of FOM (Fundamental Research on Matter). In 2003, she was awarded a VICI-grant of the NWO (Dutch organization of scientific research) to investigate roughness modelling for water management applications. Hereafter she was invited to join the KNAW (Dutch academy of sciences), and became member of the DJA (young senior scientists) and the council for earth and climate. Early in 2007 Hulscher became part of the Dutch Innovation Platform, chaired by Balkenende (Dutch prime minister). Prof Hulscher acted 16 times as promotor and she supervises 13 PhD-students. From 2009 prof. Hulscher is a member of the committee sciences innovation (commissie van wijzen).