PhD Research

At UNESCO-IHE, PhD participants work together with other researchers – including over 65 PhD and 200 MSc participants from many countries – dealing with topics related to water and the environment.

This results in a vibrant, multicultural and multidisciplinary research atmosphere.

Participants participate in problem-oriented research with relevance for development, by joining an existing research programme or by defining their own research topic within UNESCO-IHE’s five themes.

Currently the following PhD fellows are conducting research at UNESCO-IHE:

	Name	Country	Promotor	Working title thesis

Mrs	ABIRA	KENYA	Denny	Treatment of pulp and paper mill wastewater using a constructed wetland in the tropics
Mr	ALFONSO SEGURA	COLOMBIA	Price	Maximising information content from monitoring networks for optimal performance of water catchments
Mr	ANDEL van	NETHERLANDS	Price	Anticipatory Water Management
Mr	ANSA	GHANA	Gijzen	Pathogen removal from wastewater
Mrs	AZAB	EGYPT	Price	Integration of GIS, Remote Sensing and Modelling for Water Quality Management in an Irrigated Watershed
Mr	BABU	UGANDA	Gijzen	Improving nitrogen removal in algae wastewater stabilization ponds
Mr	BAGHOTH	UGANDA	Amy	Characterization of natural organic matter in water using multiple detectors
Mr	BARRETO CORDEREO	VENEZUELA	Price	Multi-criteria optimisation in the rehabilitation of urban drainage networks

Mr	BIN ABDULLAH	MALAYSIA	Price	Web-based spatial decision support system for integrated urban water management
Mrs	BREMERE	LATVIA	Schippers	Saving energy and water by maximizing the conversion of membrane filtration system
Mr	BUAMAH	GHANA	Schippers	Adsorptive removal of arsenic, iron and manganese from groundwater
Mr	CORZO PEREZ	COLOMBIA	Price	Hybrid data driven and conceptual models in operational hydrological forecasting
Mrs	DAI	CHINA	Gijzen	Efficiency of riverbanks in removal of contaminants from rainfall runoff in cities
Mr	DISSANAYAKE	SRI LANKA	Roelvink	The role of tidal inlets in coastal erosion
Mrs	ESSANDOH	GHANA	Amy	Soil aquifer treatment of wastewater: a framework for technology implementation in a developing country
Mr	GALVIS CASTANO	COLOMBIA	Gijzen	Technology selection model to pollution prevention and control from domestic wastewater in small and medium towns
Mrs	GUIO TORRES	COLOMBIA	Vairavamoorthy	Sustainability for urban water systems

Mr	JAMIL	MALAYSIA	Uhlenbrook	Land use change impacts to hydrological regimes
Mr	JUNG	KOREA	Price	Model based decision support system for managing eutrophication in a reservoir
Mrs	KAYOZA	TANZANIA	Vairavamoorthy	Integrated infrastructure for sustainable improvement of right-of-way safety in dynamic urban environments
Mr	KHATRI	NEPAL	Vairavamoorthy / Amy	Risk Assessment of Urban Water Systems for the City of the Future.
Mr	KOMAKECH	UGANDA	vd Zaag
Mr	KUNTIYAWICHAI	THAILAND	Schultz/ Uhlenbrook	Flood management and land use in the Chi River basin, Thailand
Mr	LAI KO AN	CHINA R.O.C.	v Maarsseveen (TUT)	An analysis of environmental capacity characteristics of heterogeneous traffic corridors
Mrs	LAMEI	EGYPT	vd Zaag	Decision support system for investing in integrated water resources management in arid coastal regions
Mr	LESSER	NEW ZEALAND	Roelvink	Numerical modelling of waves, currents, sediment transport and coastal morphological change in three dynamic estuary mouths
Mrs	LI HONG	CHINA P.R.	Mynett	Spatio-temporal analysis and simulation of population dynamics in lakes and estuaries
Mrs	LIANG	CHINA P.R.	v Dijk	Financing and cost recovery of innovations in the urban water cycle in terms of different institutional and technological options
Mr	LIMSIRI	THAILAND	Schultz/ Nieuwenhuis	Very soft organic clay applied for road embankment
Mr	LOPEZ VAZQUEZ	MEXICO	Gijzen/ Loosdrecht	Effect of high temperature on filamentous bulking sludge in activated sludge systems
Mr	LOVE	ZIMBABWE	vd Zaag/ Uhlenbrook	Land/water/livelihood strategies and water resources availability
Mrs	LUGWISHA	TANZANIA	Leentvaar	Wastewater management institutional performance and change
Mr	LUTTERODT	GHANA	Uhlenbrook	Groundwater quality and bio-colloid transport in peri-urban areas near Accra, Ghana
Mr	MABIZA	ZIMBABWE	vd Zaag / Gupta	IWRM, institutions and livelihoods: cases and perspectives from the Limpopo River Basin
Mr	MAENG	SOUTH KOREA	Amy	Multiple objective treatment aspects of riverbank filtration system
Mr	MAKURIRA	ZIMBABWE	Savenije	Smallholder water system innovations for upgrading rainfed agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas
Mr	MASIH	PAKISTAN	Uhlenbrook / Rijsberman	Hydrology and water balance analysis for sustaining food security and environmental services in Karkheh River Basin, Iran
Mrs	MOHKTAR - NAZER	PALESTINE	Vd Zaag / Gijzen	From water scarcity to sustainable water use in the West Bank, Palestine
Ms	MUL	NETHERLANDS	Savenije	Balancing water for crop production and ecosystems at sub-catchment and catchment scale
Mr	MUNIR	PAKISTAN	Schultz	Role of sediment transport in operation and maintenance of supply and demand based irrigation canals
Mr	NGUYEN	VIETNAM	Savenije	Study of evolution of salinity in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
Mr	NTOW	GHANA	Gijzen	The use and fate of pesticides in vegetable-based agro-ecosystems in Ghana
Mr	NYARKO	GHANA	van Dijk	Ghana water and sanitation sector: drivers and performance
Mr	ODURO-KWARTENG	GHANA	van Dijk	Managing urban solid waste services: assessment of performance of private companies in five cities in Ghana
Mr	OFOSU	GHANA	vd Zaag / vd Giesen	Irrigation Development and catchment management in the White Volta Sub-Basin
Mr	OWUSU-ANSAH	GHANA	vd Zaag	Near-real time monitoring of flows in the Volta basin using variational data assimilation
Mr	PAUDEL	NEPAL	Schultz	An improved approach for the design and management of irrigation canals
Mr	SALINAS RODRIGUEZ	BOLIVIA	Amy	Water characterisation and fouling prediction tools for Seawater Reverse Osmosis Systems
Mrs	SANZ GALINDO	COLOMBIA	Gupta / vd Zaag	Developing conflict resolution as a policy tool for small and medium enterprises
Mr	SEKOMO	RWANDA	Lens	Mechanisms of heavy metals removal in natural wastewater treatment systems
Mr	SHRESTHA	NEPAL	Price	Computational intelligence and uncertainty in flood forecasting
Mr	SIEK	INDONESIA	Price	Predicting ocean surges: multi-models, computational intelligence, chaos and uncertainty
Mr	SILVA VINASCO	COLOMBIA	Gijzen	Greenhouse gas emissions from eco-technologies for sustainable domestic wastewater management in tropical regions
Mrs	UWAMARIYA	RWANDA	Amy	Assessment of ground as source of drinking water in Rwanda
Mr	VALENCIA	MEXICO	Gijzen	The sustainable use of bioreactor landfill techniques in The Netherlands
Mr	VELEZ QUINTERO	COLOMBIA	Price / Mynett	Real time control in integrated urban water management
Mr	WALY	EGYPT	Amy	Minimize the use of chemicals in sea water reverse osmosis: impact on scaling & concentrate disposal
Mr	WONG	MALAYSIA	Uhlenbrook	Impact of variability and heterogeneity of hydro-climatological parameters on the hydrology in Malaysia
Mr	YANGALI QUINTANILLA	PERU	Amy	Rejection of pharmaceutically active and endocrine disrupting compounds by low and high pressure membranes
Mr	YE	CHINA P.R.	Roelvink	A generic morpho-dynamical model and its validation.
Mrs	ZAGONJOLLI	ALBANIA	Mynett	Uncertainty analysis and risk management in dam break modelling