About Tim Leijnse
Tim Leijnse has been working at Deltares since 2018 as a coastal engineer, researcher and software developer. He focuses on topics regarding modelling compound flooding due to extreme events including tropical cyclones. Since then, he has been involved in several national and international projects (e.g. Australia, Bangladesh, Caribbean, Denmark, EU, India, Senegal, USA), and has gained broad experience in the application of coastal modelling software such as Delft3D(-FM), HurryWave, SFINCS, SnapWave, SWAN, TCWiSE and XBeach.
During these projects he developed expertise in several coastal research topics including tropical cyclones, storm surges, wave propagation, tsunamis, compound flooding and coastal hazards. Within these topics he is involved in the model validation and development of SFINCS (a new rapid flood solver), Delft Dashboard & HydroMT (quick setup tools for models) and TCWiSE (synthetic tropical cyclone generator).
For SFINCS he is acting as the Product Owner within the Deltares Hydrodynamics product line, guiding the development of the model for Deltares NL. Additionally, he is finishing now his PhD at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working on improving large scale coastal flood risk assessments by including wave driven components dynamically.
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