Frederique de Groen

Expert Climate Impact and Human Responses

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Frederique de Groen is an expert on the quantification of natural hazard impact assessments and modelling human responses. She is involved in the continuous development of Delft-FIAT, RA2CE and the Criticality Tool, which are used to assess natural hazard impacts on buildings, road networks and critical infrastructures. Her interest also lies in the connection of the physical with the social, using for example Agent-Based Modelling to investigate human responses to climate change effects. With these kinds of methods, she contributes to a new research track within Deltares aiming at improving the understanding of relocation as adaptation strategy in coastal areas.

Working experience

2020 - present	Deltares	Junior advisor/researcher Impact and Human Responses Modelling
2018 - 2020	Trainee.nl	Trainee Data Science & Business Analytics at Deltares

Coastal Vulnerability Assessment for Majuro Atoll (CVA)

Marshall Islands, 2020 - 2021

Positions held: Risk modeler
Main project features: The assessment of multi-flood-hazard coastal risk.
Activities performed: Collecting and manipulating (exposure) data, setting up Delft-FIAT (Flood Impact Assessment Tool), running FIAT and post-processing the results into maps, tables and figures, and documentation and analysis of the results.
Incorporating the cascading impacts of critical infrastructure damages in economic flood risk analyses

Broward county, Florida, United States, 2020 - 2021

Positions held: Developer of new (indirect) damage and risk modelling
Main project features: A research project on cascading impacts of critical infrastructure; focused on indirect impacts of road outages due to flooding; also calculating direct impacts.
Activities performed: Identifying what are the key consequences of road outages due to an extreme 3-day rain event with a stakeholder workshop. Programming the pathways leading up to these key consequences into the Criticality Tool. Quantifying the cascading effects economically. Evaluating possible measures to decrease the impact of flooding.
Community Flood Risk Support System

United States, 2020 - present

Positions held: Tool designer/developer
Main project features: The Community Flood Risk Support System is a software that combines Delft-FIAT (Flood Impact Assessment Tool) and SFINCS (Super-Fast INundation of CoastS) into a support system that enables communities to quickly assess their flood protection measures.
Activities performed: Coordinating the Delft-FIAT integration in the support system; creating integration scripts (Python) for coordination between the interface, SFINCS, and Delft-FIAT.
Better understanding the link between changes in water resources and community conflict in the Inner Niger Delta in Mali

Mali, 2020 - present

Positions held: Agent-based modeller
Main project features: An Agent-Based Model (ABM) is created to contribute to a mutual understanding of the extent to which changes in environmental factors can contribute to intra- and inter-community conflicts and can subsequently be used to explore under which environmental conditions conflict risk increases in Mali.
Activities performed: Workshops with local consultants to identify the agents, their (inter)actions, the environment they live in, and the patterns and trends that they experience. Structuring the information and data into an ABM. Analysing and using the ABM.
COACCH - Co-designing the Assessment of Climate Change Cost

EU, 2019 - 2020

Positions held: Developer of the network analysis
Main project features: Developing and using a tool to stochastically assess the redundancy of road networks disrupted by floods in multiple European countries.
Activities performed: Creating Python scripts to do network analysis with roads from OSM, that have an inundation depth attributed to them. Pre- and post-processing the data and results into maps, figures and graphs. Reporting for the COACCH deliverable (www.coacch.eu).

Frederique de Groen

Working experience

Coastal Vulnerability Assessment for Majuro Atoll (CVA)

Incorporating the cascading impacts of critical infrastructure damages in economic flood risk analyses

Community Flood Risk Support System

Better understanding the link between changes in water resources and community conflict in the Inner Niger Delta in Mali

COACCH - Co-designing the Assessment of Climate Change Cost

Object-based flood risk modelling of the European road network: physical damage and mobility disruptions

NRT Flood Impact Analysis on Road Networks: A case study in the Mandalay region, Myanmar

Near Real-Time Flood Impact Analysis on Road Networks

Activities