Karin de Bruijn

Flood risk analysis and flood risk management

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Dr. Karin M. de Bruijn is an expert in the field of flood risk management, specialized in flood inundation modelling, flood risk assessment, developing long-term flood risk management strategies, resilience strategies and flood fatality risk assessment.

The last 5 years Karin de Bruijn was especially involved in the Dutch Delta programme in which she provided information on societal flood risks and flood impacts. Furthermore, she has worked and is working in various EU projects related to critical infrastructure vulnerability to floods.

Working experience

2008 – pres.	Deltares	Senior researcher on the field of flood risk management at the unit of Policy Analysis and Scenario Studies
2012 - pres	Deltares	Member of the Scientific Board
2000 - 2005	Delft University of Technology (on resilience and flood risk management)	Researcher at the department of Civil Engineering
1998 - 2008	WL \| Delft Hydraulics, the hydrology department	Advisor/researcher in the field of hydrodynamic modeling, flood modeling, flood risk analysis and flood managemen
1998	M.Sc. in Hydrology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands	Main topics: catchment hydrology, geohydrology, GIS, groundwaterflow modelling, irrigation

INTACT: EU research project on Critical infrastructure vulnerability related to extreme weather events.

NL & Ireland, 2014 - present
Deltaprogramma Flood Safety: Project leader of the societal flood risk part: Development of a method and application of the method for the analysis of societal flood risks on the scale of the Netherlands.

NL, 2013 - 2014
Updating and improving the standard flood damage and fatality assessment method of the Netherlands (Project leader)

NL, 2013 - present

SSM2015
Water safety in the 21st Century, project Rijnmond - Drechtsteden: Analysis of long-term flood risk management strategies for the Rijnmond - Drechtsteden area. Expert advice, assessment of future risks, analysis of effects of strategies.

NL, 2012 - 2013
Flood impact analysis project: Analysis of the consequences of flood defense failures and assessment of flood fatality risks for the larger policy project Water Safety in the 21st Century

NL, 2009- 2010
Analyses of the effects of climate change and socio-economic changes on economic and casualty risks (for the project ‘The Netherlands in the future’ of PBL).

NL, 2009- 2010
EU Floodprobe project: Case study in Dordrecht to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure for flooding. Developing of the Story-line method to analyse flood scenarios and to communicate on critical-infrastructure vulnerability for flooding.

NL, 2011 - 2013
Floodsite, task 14: Methods to develop long-term strategies for flood risk management in uncertain future.

NL, 2005-2008
PhD Research on Resilience and flood risk management

NL, UK, Cambodia, 2000-2005

An advanced method for flood risk analysis in river deltas, applied to societal flood fatality risk in the Netherlands

2014
De Bruijn, K.M., Diermanse, F.L.M., Beckers, J.V.M.(2014).. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 2767–2781, 2014. doi:10.5194/nhess-14-2767-2014
Importance sampling for efficient modeling of hydraulic loads in the Rhine–Meuse delta.

2014
F. L. M. Diermanse, K. M. De Bruijn,J. V. L. Beckers & N. L. Kramer (2014) Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk assessment. DOI 10.1007/s00477-014-0921-4.
Quantitative methods for estimating flood fatalities: towards the introduction of loss of life estimation in the assessment of flood risk

2012
Di Mauro, M. De Bruijn, K.M.(2012).. Natural Hazards DOI 10.1007/s11069-012-0207-4
Life safety criteria for flood protection standards.

2012
Beckers, J., De Bruijn, K.M., Riedstra, D. In: Floods: From Risk to Opportunity (IAHS Publ. 357 2012). pp. 21-25, 2012.
Assessment of the Netherlands’ Flood Risk Management Policy Under Global Change

2012
Klijn, F, De Bruijn, K.M., Knoop, J. & Kwadijk, J. (2012). Ambio 2012. DOI 10.1007/s13280-011-0193-x.
Application and validation of mortality functions. Journal of Flood Risk Management

2012
Di Mauro, M., De Bruijn, K.M. (2012)., 5(2) pp.92-110. DOI:10.1111
Risky places in the Netherlands: a first approximation for floods.

2009
De Bruijn, K.M. & Klijn, F. (2009). Journal of Flood Risk Management 2 (2009) 58-67.
A method for developing long-term strategies for flood risk management

2007
De Bruijn, K.M., Green C., Johnson. C., McFadden, L., (2007). Evolving concepts in flood risk management: searching for a common language. In: Begum et al. (eds.). Flood Risk Management in Europe Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 2007, Volume 25, Section I, 61-75, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4200-3_4
Resilience and flood risk management. A systems approach applied to lowland rivers.

2005
De Bruijn, K.M. (2005). PhD thesis. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Evolving concepts in flood risk management: searching for a common language

2007
De Bruijn, K.M., Green C., Johnson. C., McFadden, L., (2007).. In: Begum et al. (eds.). Flood Risk Management in Europe Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 2007, Volume 25, Section I, 61-75, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4200-3_4
PhD thesis

2005: De Bruijn, K.M. (2005).. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Resilience indicators for flood risk management systems of lowland rivers.

2004
De Bruijn, K.M. (2004) International Journal of River Basin Management 2 (3), pp.199-210.
Resilience and flood risk management

2004
De Bruijn, K.M. 2004. Water Policy 6(1) (2004) 53-66.
Resilience strategies for flood risk management in the Netherlands.

2003
Vis, M., Klijn, F., De Bruijn, K.M., Van Buuren, M., 2003. International Journal of River Basin Management. Vol.1. No1. Pp33-40
Análisis del pronóstico hídrico y su relación con la planificación de la campaña agrícola.

Karin Marianne de Bruijn. Estudio realizado en el valle Chancay-Lambayeque en el Norte de Perú. Libro de Trabajo 10. IMAR Costa Norte, Chiclayo.

1998 - present	Supervisor	many Msc students
2008 - 2011	Invited lecturer	on flood inundation modeling of IHE, Delft
2010-2012	Invited lecturer	on ‘how safe do we need to be?’ Long-term Flood risk management strategies and flood protection levels for the Netherlands at the Haagse Hoge School.
1998-2008	Member	the Board of the Twinning between the cities Delft and Esteli in Nicaragua. Responsible for the assessments of the projects in Esteli, Nicaragua.

Karin de Bruijn

Working experience

INTACT: EU research project on Critical infrastructure vulnerability related to extreme weather events.

Deltaprogramma Flood Safety: Project leader of the societal flood risk part: Development of a method and application of the method for the analysis of societal flood risks on the scale of the Netherlands.

Updating and improving the standard flood damage and fatality assessment method of the Netherlands (Project leader)

Water safety in the 21st Century, project Rijnmond - Drechtsteden: Analysis of long-term flood risk management strategies for the Rijnmond - Drechtsteden area. Expert advice, assessment of future risks, analysis of effects of strategies.

Flood impact analysis project: Analysis of the consequences of flood defense failures and assessment of flood fatality risks for the larger policy project Water Safety in the 21st Century

Analyses of the effects of climate change and socio-economic changes on economic and casualty risks (for the project ‘The Netherlands in the future’ of PBL).

EU Floodprobe project: Case study in Dordrecht to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure for flooding. Developing of the Story-line method to analyse flood scenarios and to communicate on critical-infrastructure vulnerability for flooding.

Floodsite, task 14: Methods to develop long-term strategies for flood risk management in uncertain future.

PhD Research on Resilience and flood risk management

An advanced method for flood risk analysis in river deltas, applied to societal flood fatality risk in the Netherlands

Importance sampling for efficient modeling of hydraulic loads in the Rhine–Meuse delta.

Quantitative methods for estimating flood fatalities: towards the introduction of loss of life estimation in the assessment of flood risk

Life safety criteria for flood protection standards.

Assessment of the Netherlands’ Flood Risk Management Policy Under Global Change

Application and validation of mortality functions. Journal of Flood Risk Management

Risky places in the Netherlands: a first approximation for floods.

A method for developing long-term strategies for flood risk management

Resilience and flood risk management. A systems approach applied to lowland rivers.

Evolving concepts in flood risk management: searching for a common language

PhD thesis

Resilience indicators for flood risk management systems of lowland rivers.

Resilience and flood risk management

Resilience strategies for flood risk management in the Netherlands.

Análisis del pronóstico hídrico y su relación con la planificación de la campaña agrícola.

Activities