Nick van de Giesen
Since 2004, Nick van de Giesen has been working at the Water Resources Section of the Delft University of Technology, where he currently holds the “Van Kuffeler” Chair of Water Resources Engineering. Since January 2015 he has been chairman of the Delft Global Initiative. He is co-director of the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory and a member of several international scientific advisory boards. He is the scientific head of the Sustainable Development Goals route of the Netherlands National Science Agenda. His research interests concern new environmental observation methods, such as Distributed Temperature Sensing, and computational hydrology.
He received the Kandidaats B.S. degree and the M.Sc. degree in land and water management from Wageningen Agricultural University in 1984 and 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in agricultural and biological engineering from Cornell University in 1994. After a postdoctoral position with the West Africa Rice Development Association, he was a Senior Researcher for six years with the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn (Germany) where he was the Scientific Coordinator of the Global Change in the Hydrological Cycle Volta Project.
