Geo-ICT Training Center

Sierd Cloetingh is Utrecht University Distinguished Professor. His research field is Earth Sciences. He published 381 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (Scopus: 118,664 citations, h-index 75) and has been promotor of close to 80 PhD students of 18 different nationalities. 

Currently he serves as Chair Regional Coordinating Committee Europe of the International Lithosphere Program. Past functions include President of the Academia Europaea, Member and Chair of the Board of SAPEA (Scientific Advice for Policy by European Academies), President of the Association for European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST), Membership of the Scientific Council (2009-2015) and Vice-President of the European Research Council (ERC), President of the European Geophysical Society (1998-2000), President of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP, 2004-2017), Distinguished Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2006-2015), Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Global and Planetary Change” and Chairman of the TOPO-EUROPE collaborative research program.

Sierd Cloetingh received honorary doctorates from six European universities and numerous medals and awards. He is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the Royal Norwegian Academy, the Royal Danish Academy, the German National Academy for Technical Sciences (acatech), the Heidelberg Academy, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Barcelona and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was distinguished in 2005 as Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur and in 2014 as Knight of the Royal Order of the Netherlands Lion for his contributions to science and European scientific cooperation in research and education.

Tirza van Daalen is the Director of the Geological Survey of the Netherlands TNO.

She received her mSc in Geology in 1994 at Utrecht University.

Before joining the GSN-TNO in 2009, Tirza van Daalen worked in IT as a management consultant and has been active as publisher in Geoscience for Elsevier Science.

She has extensive experience in management of innovative projects. Currently is responsible for subsurface related activities within TNO ranging from research programmes in the domain of geoenergy, groundwater & subsidence.Next to that the information programme which holds the Dutch “Key register of the Subsurface” (Basisregistratie Ondergrond; BRO). This central facility for all public data on the subsurface in the Netherlands is unique in the fact that all public organisations producing. data on the subsurface will be required to deliver these, through web services to the BRO. Public organisations will also be obliged to consult the BRO before acquiring new subsurface data, e.g. for building permits. The BRO builds in GD&IT (GeoData en IT)) database, which already holds a worldwide unprecedented density of data on the subsurface in the Netherlands.

Sander Loos studied Physical Geography at Utrecht University and graduated in 2003. He explored the marshes of Siberia, focusing on hydrology and hydro-ecology for his final thesis, and sampled groundwater wells of local farmers in Morocco for assessing impacts of climatic changes on water availability. During these field campaigns he developed specific interest in the combination of hydrology/water management and IT/software development.

Nowadays Sander is senior consultant hydroinformatics at HydroLogic and works for over 18 years in the fields of hydrology and IT. In these years he was project manager, consultant, product owner (agile scrum), system architect, software developer, GIS specialist and hydrological modeler. Sander played a significant role in the long-term development of HydroNET (www.hydronet.com), an online decision support system for water management. Often he was the link between end-users and the development- and support teams of HydroNET. Besides his work for HydroNET, Sander also works as senior consultant for waterboards implementing decision support systems for operational water management and real-time control (RTC) of water systems based on Delft-FEWS software. Sanders role is highly appreciated by waterboards, because he has the required ‘soft-skills’ to facilitate projects, processes, workshops etc. while still operating within scope, target, budget and planning.

Because of his extensive experience in watermanagement and IT, Sander currently plays an important role in ‘human capital development’ at HydroLogic by training and coaching junior and medior consultants.

William Ouellette is an environmental engineer that specialized early on in geo-ICT, and became particularly passionate about the possibilities of remote sensing for environmental monitoring.

He has explored a variety of applications of remote sensing and earth observation data in the mapmaking business (TomTom), where he was using very-high resolution satellite imagery to automatically update map elements such as roads and buildings, as well as visually enhance the look-and-feel of cartographic data. Eager to put his skills and knowledge of Earth Observation data structures to use in a more high-impact environment, he decided to go consult for several (inter)national organization (FAO, KIT, World Bank). After these nonetheless enriching experiences, William realized the Aid & Development status quo was stuck in an operational procedure which required out-of-the-box solutions. He decided to start his own business with colleagues from the Aid & Development Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) where they would tackle the challenge of global climate objectives together with those of local socio-economic development in the Global South, and particularly in Africa, with the help of climate finance and voluntary carbon markets. Come and see his talk if you want to learn more about how (voluntary) carbon markets can fit into the Aid & Development narrative, and how this can only be done with more rigorous design, monitoring and evaluation of projects aiming to restore landscapes and ecosystems.

Er worden meerdere lezingen gehouden waarin de studenten enkele hedendaagse onderwerpen binnen het vakgebied ontdekken. Er zijn twee parallele sessies waarbij er vrij gekozen kan worden welke lezing bijgewoond wordt.

Charlotte graduated from Utrecht University with a Master in Earth Sciences in 2010. Since then she has worked in several positions in the geothermal field, starting with consultancy at IF Technology. Seeking a more international focus she worked for Transmark Renewables, a geothermal development company fully dedicated to greenfield exploration and development in Turkey, Chile and The Netherlands.
Now at HVC she is contribution to the energy transition by developing geothermal projects in its shareholder municipalities. HVC is a company dedicated to sustainable waste management and recycling as well as a renewable energy producer with wind, solar and geothermal assets.

My name is Annemijn van Stiphout and I am a first year PhD student in seismology at Utrecht University. In the past few years, I did a BSc Earth Sciences and an Msc Earth, Structure & Dynamics, both in Utrecht. For my thesis, I went to Cambridge for half a year to conduct a seismological study on a subduction zone in Alaska. Like my studies, my favourite holidays also involve mountains, whether it is for hiking, skiing, snowboarding or climbing. The Earth is an intriguing study area, with many interesting processes occurring on and in it, and I think with everything that is happening in the world right now, it is a challenging, but also a very interesting time to study this planet.

Ramon is a Structural Geologist. After obtaining a Ph.D. from the Australian National University, he returned to The Netherlands to work as a Research Scientist for Shell. Since then he has worked for Shell in many technical and managerial positions in Oil & Gas Exploration all around the world. For example, he was Shell’s Exploration Manager for Unconventional Exploration in Latin America. From 2013-2017, he was Exploration Manager for The Netherlands (NAM), Germany and the Southern North Sea. Lately, he has become interested in the role Integrated Energy Companies can play in the Energy Transition. As a subsurface specialist, he is particularly interested in Geothermal Energy and CCS.

Een workshop biedt studenten de ideale mogelijkheid om een interactieve manier kennis te maken met uw bedrijf. Parallel aan de bedrijvenmarkt zullen twee rondes workshops gehouden worden. Per ronde zullen de workshops anderhalf uur in beslag nemen voor maximaal 30 studenten. De inhoud en het onderwerp van een workshop is naar eigen inzicht in te vullen. De ervaring leert dat interactieve workshops het best worden ontvangen; bijvoorbeeld het uitwerken van een case-study met een klassikale conclusie.

De bedrijvenmarkt is een belangrijk onderdeel van het Earth Science Career Event en is erg geliefd bij studenten. Het bemachtigen van een stand geeft u de mogelijkheid om in contact te komen met deze studenten en nieuwe talenten te ontdekken!

Het is mogelijk om stageprojecten, eventueel in combinatie met een masterthesis, en vacatures aan te bieden op onze site. Deze zullen op onze speciale vacature pagina komen te staan.

In navolging van de afgelopen edities bieden wij dit jaar weer de zogenoemde CV-interviews aan in een nieuw jasje: Meet & Connect. Als u gebruik maakt van deze optie, krijgt u 90 minuten een lokaal tot uw beschikking om in gesprek te gaan met getalenteerde studenten. Vooraf zult u CV’s toegestuurd krijgen van geïnteresseerde studenten en hieruit uw selectie maken. Met elke geselecteerde student kunt u circa 20 minuten in gesprek gaan. Dit biedt de geschikte gelegenheid om nieuwe talenten te ontdekken en om eventueel beschikbare stageplek of vacatures te vervullen! Wilt u meer dan 4 à 5 studenten interviewen? Er bestaat een mogelijkheid de optie dubbel te boeken waardoor u gedurende 180 minuten een lokaal tot uw beschikking heeft.