About Nathalie Asselman

Dr. Nathalie Asselman is a specialist advisor on flood risk management. She studied physical geography at Utrecht University, where she gained much experience in the morphodynamics of coastal areas, estuaries and lowland river systems. Her Ph.D. concerned the impact of climate and environmental change on transport and deposition of fine suspended sediment in the river Rhine.

Since 2002 she has been working on integrated flood risk management studies. She developed flood inundation models, carried out flood risk assessments and developed strategies aiming at flood prevention or mitigation of the consequences. She is presently involved in the Netherlands’ Deltaprogramme Large Rivers, aiming at reducing the expected increase in flood risk (due to economic developments and climate change) at acceptable costs. She also participates in the implementation of the EU Flood Directive.

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Working experience

  1. Deltares

    Specialist consultant Flood Risk Management and replacing head of the department Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk Management

    2010 - present
  2. Deltares

    Senior consultant Flood Risk Management and replacing head of the department Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk Management

    2008 - 2010
  3. Delft Hydraulics

    Senior consultant and replacing head of the department River Basin Management

    2004 - 2008
  4. Delft Hydraulics

    Environmental Consultant, River Basin Management Division

    1999 - 2004
  5. WOTRO

    Researcher Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research

    1997 - 1999
  6. Utrecht University

    Researcher

    1992 - 1999

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