Conferences, workshops and seminars

Major international conferences


  1. Sep 2024. Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS). Bordeaux (France).
    Oral presentation: Tidal salt transport regimes - uncovering the importance of ESCO in estuaries mixed to stratified.
  2. Sep 2023. Dynamics Days Europe. Naples (Italy)
    Oral presentation: Using numerical bifurcation theory to better understand the relation between phytoplankton diversity and primary production.
  3. Jun 2023. Gordon Research Conference Coastal Ocean Dynamics (GRC). Smithfield (RI, USA).
    Invited oral presentation: How Can an Estuary Become Hyperturbid?: Understanding Sediment Transport in Changing Estuaries.
  4. Sep 2021. International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport (INTERCOH). Delft (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Uncovering the sediment transport processes that caused the regime shift to hyperturbid conditions in the Loire Estuary.
  5. Mar 2021. Virtual Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (V-PECS). Online.
    Oral presentation: Salt transport regimes in estuaries.
  6. Okt 2018. Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS). Galveston (TX, USA).
    Poster presentation: Using a combination of the iFlow and Delft 3D models to demonstrate the change of the Ems River Estuary into a hyperturbid estuary.
  7. Nov 2017. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF). Providence (RI, USA).
    Oral presentation: The essential physical processes to describe the transition of an estuary to a hyper-turbid state.
  8. Okt 2016. Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS). The Hague (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Multiple equilibria for suspended sediment concentrations in rivers and tidal flows.
  9. Sept 2016. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science Association (ECSA): Coastal Systems in Transition. Bremen (Germany).
    Oral presentation: A comparison of trapping processes for suspended matter in European estuaries.

International and national workshops and symposia


  1. Feb 2025. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Delmenhorst (Germany)
    Main organiser
  2. Jun 2024. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Delft (Netherlands)
    Main organiser
    Oral presentation: Seasonal regime shifts in SPM dynamics of the Ems – understanding SPM transport timescales
  3. Mar 2023. NCK days. Amersfoort (Netherlands).
    Participant
  4. Mar 2023. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Antwerpen (Belgium)
    Co-organiser
  5. Jul 2022. 4TU-AMI workshop. Eindhoven (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Differential Equations for Phytoplankton-Nutrient Ecosystems (DEPHYNE)
  6. Jun 2022. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Wageningen (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: The effects of sediment transport over the Geise dam on the concentration & transport in the Ems.
  7. Mar 2022. NCK days. Enschede (Netherlands).
    Poster presentation: A classification of salt transport regimes in narrow estuaries with application to the Rotterdam Waterway.
  8. May 2019. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Delft (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Regime shifts in sediment concentrations in tide-dominated estuaries.
  9. Nov 2018. International Schelde symposium. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Invited keynote presentation: Kan de Schelde hypertroebel worden? Inzichten uit een geïdealiseerde modelstudie.
  10. Jun 2018. Closing workshop 'Agenda voor de toekomst'. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Oral presentation: Can the Scheldt become hyperturbid?
  11. May 2018. SUPREME kick-off workshop. Guangzhou (China).
    Oral presentation: The iFlow model and its use for modelling high sediment concentrations.
  12. Feb 2018. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Delmenhorst (Germany).
    Oral presentation: An idealized modelling study into the transition of the Ems River Estuary to a hyperturbid state.
  13. May 2017. Burgers symposium. Lunteren (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Why sediments are trapped in estuaries: an analysis using the idealised iFlow model.
  14. Feb 2017. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Oral presentation: Progress in understanding regime shifts to hyperturbidity using a combination of different process-based models.
  15. Dec 2016. Workshop 'Agenda voor de toekomst'. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Participant
  16. Feb 2016. Ems-Scheldt workshop. Soesterberg (Netherlands).
    Participant
  17. Dec 2015. Workshop 'Agenda voor de toekomst'. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Participant
  18. Jun 2015. VNSC modelling methods workshop.
    Oral presentation: Towards bridging the gap between idealised and complex models.
  19. Feb 2015. Ems-Scheldt Workshop. Delmenhorst (Germany).
    Oral presentation: On the effects of tidal variations of turbulent mixing on exchange flows in estuaries.
  20. Nov 2014. Workshop 'Agenda voor de Toekomst'. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Oral presentation: On the effects of tidal variations of turbulent mixing on exchange flows in estuaries.

Other invited talks and seminars


  1. Nov 2022. Applied Mathematics seminar at Delft Institute for Applied Mathematics. Delft (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: What is salt intrusion in estuaries and how to model it?
  2. Mar 2020. Virtual European Physical Oceanography and Shelf Sea Seminar Series (VEPOSSSS). Online.
    Oral presentation: A unifying approach to subtidal salt intrusion modelling in tidal estuaries .
  3. Jan 2020. PDE seminar at Delft Institute for Applied Mathematics. Delft (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Understanding behaviour of nonlinear PDEs describing sediment transport in estuaries using perturbation methods.
  4. Jul 2019. PhD closure talk at Flanders Hydraulics Research. Antwerp (Belgium).
    Oral presentation: Regime shifts in sediment concentrations in tide-dominated estuaries.
  5. May 2019. Invited talk at the Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group at Wageningen University. Wageningen (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Regime shifts in sediment concentrations in tide-dominated estuaries.
  6. May 2019. Dutch royal trade mission to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany).
    Poster presentation: Physics Governing the Regime Shift of the Ems to Hyperturbid Conditions.
  7. Okt 2017. Talk at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) (MA, USA).
    Oral presentation: Analysing SPM trapping processes in well-mixed estuaries using the idealised iFlow model.
  8. Okt 2017. Invited talk at Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) (Vi, USA).
    Oral presentation: Improving understanding of sediment trapping and phytoplankton growth in estuaries using the idealised iFlow model.
  9. Sept 2017. Rutgers Student Seminar - Rutgers University (NJ, USA).
    Oral presentation: Improving understanding of sediment trapping and phytoplankton growth in estuaries using the idealised iFlow model.
  10. Okt 2015. Invited talk at the award ceremony thesis prizes Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Haarlem (Netherlands).
    Oral presentation: Circulatiestromingen in estuaria.