Victor Beumer

Delft

Victor Beumer defended his PhD in 2009 at the Utrecht University in The Netherlands. It was about the biogeochemical effects of water storage in stream valleys and its consequences for vegetation development. He works for Deltares since then where he is focusing on alternative benefits in ecosystems or parts of ecosystems. For the Dutch State Water Service he coordinated the program of Eco-engineering where innovative solutions were set up to combine water safety with natural value. Within Deltares he has set up and coordinated the research program Eco-Infrastructure where the focus lies on the combination of eco-engineering with hard infrastructure. Since 2013 he is coordinator of the working group Green Infrastructure of the EU Water Platform (WssTP). This year he has been working with the city of Rotterdam on the program ‘River as a tidal park’ focusing on the application of Building with Nature in cities (www.buildingwithnatureindestad.nl).