Current research projects

Period

Research titles and researchers

2025-2027

LIVING ON THE EDGE: Living dikes for nature-based flood risk mitigation - the development, protective function and resilience of tidal marshes
Stoorvogel (PD), Hulscher (supervisor), Borsje (supervisor), Horstman (supervisor)

2024-2028

SALTGARDEN: Understanding biodiverse salt marsh hydrodynamics, sediment transport and microplastics trapping through numerical modelling of biogeophysical feedback
Meijer (PhD), Wijnberg (promotor), Horstman (Daily supervisor)

2024-2028

SOURCE: Exploration of Using Non-native Sediments for Coastal Nourishments
Poursoleymanzdeh (PhD), Wijnberg (promotor), Horstman (Daily supervisor), van der Werf (Daily supervisor)

2024-2028

BANX: Understanding tidal sandbank dynamics and impacts of sand extraction in sediment-scarce environments
Geerts (PhD), Hulscher (promotor), Roos

2024-2028

AdaptCoast – Modelling long-term morphological effects of intermittent human activities on beach-dune systems
Florentina (PhD), Wijnberg (Promotor), Campmans 

2024-2028

Dike erosion due to wave overtopping: Erosion of the clay layer after failure of the grass cover
vd Vegt (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Warmink, Hofland, v. Bergeijk

2023-2027

Action perspectives on climate extremes in the Dutch river delta: system-level impacts and mitigation measures
Welsch (PhD), Augustijn (Promotor), Hulscher (Co-promotor), Warmink

2023-2027

Understanding the behaviour of scour holes and developing mitigation measures
Oldenhof (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Bomers, Warmink

2023-2027

SEDIMARE Project: Sand-mud mixtures transport
Nguyen (PhD), Roos (Promotor), v.d. Werf

2023-2027

SEDIMARE: Morphodynamics of tidal basins using subgrid modelling: role of bank erosion
Wang, S. (PhD), Roos (Promotor), Soares-Frazao, Volp

2023-2027

OR ELSE project: effect of large-scale sand extractions on sand waves
Ploeg (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Borsje, Roos

2023-2027

Global coastal vulnerability index (CVI) assessment for present and future
Basnayake (PhD), Wijnberg (Promotor), Duong, Ranasinghe, Almar

2023-2027

INREEF: Interdisciplinary program to build the resilience of marine protected areas in tourism destinations
Faizal (PhD), Wijnberg (Promotor), Ranasinghe (Promotor), Horstman, Vermeulen, Kujawa

2022-2026

MELODY project: physical sand transport processes in the lower shoreface
Frankemölle (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), van der Werf

2022-2026

Development of Machine Learning Applications for Real-Time River Flood Forecasting
Besseling (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Bomers, Warmink

2022-2026

Living on the edge: Biogeomorphic evolution of salt marshes under wave and tidal forcing
Dzimballa (PhD), Augustijn (Promotor), Borsje, Kitsikoudis

2022-2026

MELODY project: Scale interactions of sand waves on the lower shoreface
Portos Amill (PhD), Roos (Promotor), Hulscher (Promotor), Damveld 

2022-2026

Nature-based flood protection by Living Dikes: modelling salt marsh dynamics and coastal safety
Sipma (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Warmink (Daily Supervisor), Duong (Co-Supervisor)

2022-2026

Wave damping, sediment trapping and salt-intrusion mitigation by estuarine ecosystem engineering species
Bootsma (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), van der Wal (Promotor), Borsje (Co-Promotor)

2022-2026

Living Dikes: Stability of saltmarshes under extreme hydrodynamic forcing
Muller (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Borsje, van der Werf

2021-2025

From micro to macro scale: from sand grain behaviour to emergent coastal dune properties
Wang (PhD), Wijnberg (Promotor), Campmans, Weinhart, Luding, Thornton

2021-2026

Seacode project: Efficient modelling of sand wave field dynamics for engineering purposes
Overes (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Borsje, Luijendijk

2021-2025

Hydraulic river modelling approaches to link high flow and low flow conditions
Khorsandi Kuhanestani (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Booij, Warmink, Bomers

2020-2024

ReAShore:Resilient Anthropogenic Shores
Bakhshianlamouki (PhD), Wijnberg (Promotor), Voinov (Promotor), Augustijn, Brugnach

2020-2024

Modelling socio-biophysical dynamics of anthropogenic sandy shores
Teixeira (PhD), Wijnberg (Promotor), Horstman 

2020-2024

Efficient modelling of ecomorphodynamcis in estuaries to evaluate salt-intrusion solutions
Siemes (PhD), Hulscher (Promotor), Duong, Borsje