In my teaching years at Wageningen University, the University of Zimbabwe and IHE Delft I have worked with many talented and inspiring postgraduate students and PhD fellows. My current PhD fellows and PhD graduates are listed on this page, and links are provided to the published PhD theses (that in the Dutch system are open access). As can be seen, several PhD graduates have been co-supervised with colleagues from IHE Delft, TU Delft, Wageningen University, VU Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, including Hubert Savenije, Nick van de Giesen, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Huub Gijzen, Linden Vincent, Ann van Griensven, Roy Brouwer, Yasir Mohamed, Ilyas Masih, Rhodante Ahlers, Marianne Wiesebron, Sander Meijerink, Uta Wehn, Nora van Cauwenbergh, Charlotte de Fraiture, Saket Pande, Yong Jiang, Jill Slinger, Marloes Mul, Susan Steele-Dunne, Richard de Jeu, Erik Mostert, Sander Meijerink, Toine Smits and Margreet Zwarteveen. What great colleagues to work with!

Current PhD fellows

• Annelieke Duker: Evaluation of the robustness of irrigated farming systems along ephemeral rivers in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe (with Charlotte de Fraiture) (part-time).
• Anjana Ekka: Economics of river ecosystem – a hydroeconomic modelling approach to river basin management (with Yong Jiang and Saket Pande, TU Delft).
• Alyssa Offutt: Multi-scalar analysis of the hydro-politics of transboundary water quality governance (with Susanne Schmeier and Erik Mostert, TU Delft)
• Henry Amorocho-Daza: Coupling Systems Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence to strengthen policy integration and evaluation using a Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus approach (with Janez Susnik and Els van Daalen, TU Delft)

PhD graduates

• Nadja I. den Besten: The influence of waterlogging in agricultural monitoring from space -observations from an irrigated sugarcane plantation. TU Delft, 10 May 2023 (with Susan Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, and Richard A.M. de Jeu, Planet Labs Inc.)
• Afua G. Owusu: The practice and opportunities in re-operating dams for the environment. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 30 November 2022 (with Jill H. Slinger, TU Delft, and Marloes Mul)
• Tobias Renner: Sharing international rivers; regional cross-border cooperation between The Netherlands and Germany. Radboud University, 3 June 2022 (with Toine Smits, Radboud University, and Sander Meijerink, Radboud University)
• Jonatan Godinez Madrigal: Paradigm lost – on the value of lost causes in transforming cities and water systems’ development pathways. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 26 April 2022 (with Nora van Cauwenbergh)
• Mohammad Gharesifard: Community-based monitoring initiatives of water and environment: evaluation of the establishment dynamics and results. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 28 September 2020 (with Uta Wehn)
• Reem Fikri M.O. Digna: Optimizing the operation of a multi-reservoir system in the Eastern Nile basin considering water and sediment fluxes. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 26 May 2020 (with Stefan Uhlenbrook and Yasir Mohamed)
• Fernanda de Souza Braga: A ditadura militar e a governança da água no Brasil – ideologia, poderes politico-econômico e sociedade civil na construção das hidrelétricas de grande porte. Leiden University, 12 March 2020 (with Edmund Amann & Marianne Wiesebron, Leiden University)
• Hermen Smit: Making water security: a morphological account of Nile river development. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 17 December 2019 (with Rhodante Ahlers)
• Tesfay Gebretsadkan Gebremicael: Understanding the Impact of Human Interventions on the Hydrology of Nile Basin Headwaters, the Case of Upper Tekeze Catchments. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 8 October 2019 (with Yasir Mohamed)
• Aline Saraiva Okello: Improved Hydrological Understanding of a Semi-Arid Subtropical Transboundary Basin Using Multiple Techniques – the Incomati River Basin. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 2 May 2019 (with Stefan Uhlenbrook and Ilyas Masih)
• Seleshi Getahun Yalew: Integrated modeling of land and water resources in two African catchments. IHE Delft and TU Delft, 19 March 2018 (with Ann van Griensven)
• Tewodros Negash Kahsay: Towards sustainable water resources management in the Nile River Basin; a global computable general equilibrium analysis. VU Amsterdam, 25 January 2017 (with Roy Brouwer)
• Ali Dinar Abdullah: Modelling approaches to understand salinity variations in a highly dynamic tidal river – the case of the Shatt-al Arab River. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 21 November 2016
• Jeremiah K. Kiptala: Managing basin interdependencies in a heterogeneous, highly utilized and data scarce river basin in semi-arid Africa. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 13 October 2016
• Jeltsje S. Kemerink: Policies lost in translation? Unravelling water reform processes in African waterscapes. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 10 December 2015
• Abonesh Tesfaye Tulu: Institutional-Economic Incentives for Sustainable Watershed Management in the Blue Nile River Basin. VU Amsterdam, 11 November 2013 (with Roy Brouwer)
• David Love: Water resources strategies to increase food production in the semi-arid tropics – with particular emphasis on the potential of alluvial groundwater. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 12 September 2013 (with Stefan Uhlenbrook).
• Hans Komakech: Emergence and evolution of endogenous water institutions in an African river basin – local water governance and state intervention in the Pangani river basin, Tanzania. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 4 July 2013
• Collin C. Mabiza: Integrated Water Resources Management, institutions and livelihoods under stress: bottom-up perspectives from Zimbabwe. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 6 February 2013
• Eric Ofosu: Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta Sub-Basin. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 13 December 2011 (with Nick van de Giesen).
• Dima Wadi’ Nazer: From water scarcity to sustainable water use in the West Bank, Palestine. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 26 November 2009 (with Huub Gijzen).
• Aya Lamei: A Technical-Economic Model for Integrated Water Resources Management in Tourism Dependent Arid Coastal Regions; the Case of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, 13 October 2009.
• Subha Vishnudas: Sustainable Watershed Management: Illusion or Reality, A case of Kerala State in India. TU Delft, 19 December 2006 (with Hubert Savenije).
• Alex Bolding: In hot water: a study on sociotechnical intervention models and practices of water use in smallholder agriculture, Nyanyadzi catchment, Zimbabwe. Wageningen University, 15 December 2004 (co-promotor; promotors: Linden F. Vincent and Niels Röling, Wageningen University).
• Emmanuel Manzungu: Strategies of smallholder irrigation management in Zimbabwe. Wageningen University, 15 December 1999 (co-promotor; promotor: Linden F. Vincent, Wageningen University).