Ir. Schalk Jan van Andel is a hydroinformatics research fellow at UNESCO-IHE Delft. He has a background in Hydrology, Computational Hydraulics and Water Management. He has been involved in national and international research projects, like the design of innovative flood reduction measures along the Dutch branches of the Rhine and the development of Earth System Models at the Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK). He specialised in the development and application of hydrologic and hydro-dynamic models.
At present he is involved in a number of research projects on operational water management and real-time control of water systems. His Ph.D research project focuses on the application of meteorological data and forecasts in operational water management.
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