Naar hoofdcontent
  3. Search

About Ligaya Wopereis

Ligaya Wopereis is a researcher/advisor in the field of flood management. She obtained her master's degree in Hydraulic Engineering, specializing in flood risk, at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). She has built experience in predicting the failure behavior of dikes by running numerical models and analyzing field and lab experiments. In this way, she contributes to the mission: "Better protected against floods." See publications for an overview of Conference publications Ligaya was involved in.

Currently, Ligaya still works part-time at Deltares because she has started her PhD at TU Delft. Her research focuses on quantifying the impact of climate change on the flood risk of the southwestern delta, developing adaptation strategies and creating adaptation pathways.

Publications

  1. Observations of sand-boils in GeoCentrifuge tests

    12th International Conference on scour and erosion, 4-7 November 2025. Chongqing, China.

    Noyons, Tao, Wopereis, Zwanenburg

  2. Testing dike stability under uplift conditions; an experimental study

    5th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (2-4 October 2024. Delft, the Netherlands.)

    Zwanenburg, Cengiz, Fransen, Wittekoek, Wopereis,

  3. Centrifuge tests on uplift and deformation patterns of clay cover layers in deltas

    VIII European Conference on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, 25 - 30 August 2024. Lisbon, Portugal.

    Cengiz, Cabrera, Wittekoek, Fransen, Wopereis, Zwanenburg

  4. The strength of tidal deposits against backward erosion piping in two large scale experiments

    9th Annual working Group on Internal Erosion (EWG-IE), 2 – 5 July 2023. Lyon, France.

    Van der Linde, E.M., van Beek, V.M., Hijma, M.P., van Goor, G.R.P., de Bruijn, H.T.J., Wopereis, L.M. and van de Stroet, P

  5. Experimenteel onderzoek naar de macrostabiliteit van dijken bij opdrijven en opbarsten van dunne Holocene deklagen in het achterland

    Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs Geotechniekdag 2023, 16 November 2023. The Netherlands.

    Wittekoek, B., Zwanenburg, C., Cengiz, C., Fransen, M., and Wopereis, L.M.,

  6. Quantifying the effect of aquifer characteristics on 3D backward erosion

    1th International Conference on scour and erosion, 17 – 21 september 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Wopereis, L.M., van Beek, V., Rosenbrand, E. and Robbins, B.

  7. Backward erosion piping for situations with a riverside blanket

    1th International Conference on scour and erosion, 17 – 21 september 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Rosenbrand, E., Wopereis, L.M., van Beek, V., Kanning, W., Kapinga, S. and van Hemert, H.,

  8. Design of a Probabilistic FEM analysis using the Sellmeijer model for backward erosion piping

    8th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety & Risk (ISGSR), 14 – 16 december 2022. Newcastle, Australia.

    Wopereis, L.M., Rosenbrand, E., van der Meij, R. and Kanning, W

  9. “Exploratory study – Field scale modelling of 3D groundwater flow towards a pipe

    28th Annual Meeting of the European Working Group on Internal Erosion (EWG-IE), 18 – 21 July 2022. Sheffield, United Kingdom.

    Wopereis, L.M., Rosenbrand, E. and Van Beek, V.M.,

  10. Investigation of filter incompatibility and suffusion as a potential cause for settlement

    28th Annual Meeting of the European Working Group on Internal Erosion (EWG-IE), 18 – 21 July 2022. Sheffield, United Kingdom.

    Van Beek, V.M., Wopereis, L.M., Wiersma, A. and Bezuijen, A.

  11. Classification of erosion characteristics of grass dikes under wave attack using a medium-scale field measurement device: the fire hose method

    39th International Association for Hydro-environment engineering and Reasearch (IAHR) World Congress. 19 – 24 june 2022. Granada, Spain.

    Wopereis, L.M., Van Steeg, P. and Van Dammen, M.,

  12. Failure paths for levees – an international framework

    8th Canadian Conference on Geotechnique and Natural Hazards, 12 – 15 june 2022. Quebec, Canada

    Van, M., Rosenbrand, E., Wopereis, L.M., Zwanenburg, C., Tourment, R. and Smith, P

Share this page.