About Ap van Dongeren

Ap van Dongeren is a Senior Specialist at Deltares and Associate Professor of Coastal Hazards at IHE Delft, with experience in wave dynamics, coastal hazards and coastal risk.

He has been project leader on a number of national and international projects for the Dutch government, Dutch water boards, the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the World Bank.

Additionally, he is a member of the Deltares Research Moonshot Team, and leads the Moonshot on “Making the world safer against flooding” and was a member of the Deltares Scientific Board.

Ap was also Coordinator of the EU-FP7 RISC-KIT project on coastal resilience and extreme coastal events, was Work Package Leader for the MICORE project, which has developed online dune erosion models for the European Union and sserved on the U.S. National Academies’ Committee on Coastal Risk Reduction for the U.S. Corps of Engineers.

He has led the Deltares development of the open-source XBeach model from a dune erosion model to wider applicability on coral, gravel and vegetated coasts.

Some other projects Ap is involved in are: he has led the development of Delft3D as an open-source model for the U.S. Navy and the development of a tool to quickly set up models and the development of a method to derive nearshore bathymetries from remote sensing, is part of the super fast flood model SFINCS development team and has led a project team to improve the performance of SWAN (a wave action model) in a tidal inlet sea in order to derive more reliable Dutch wave boundary conditions.