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Biography

Dr Arnout van Soesbergen is a physical geographer with broad research interests in hydrology, land-use change modelling, ecology, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services.

He completed his PhD on the impacts of climate change on water resources of global dams at the Department of Geography in 2013. He has a MSc in Eco-hydrology and Environment and Resource Management, both from the VU University Amsterdam. During his PhD, he worked on modelling water resources and developing policy support systems in the Andes as part of the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPFW).

Prior to his PhD, Arnout worked at the Institute for Environmental Studies in Amsterdam where he worked on projects around Payments for Ecosystem Services and hydro-economic modelling.

In addition to his role at King's, he also holds a position as Senior Ecosystem Services Scientist at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) the biodiversity assessment arm of the United Nations Environment Programme, based in Cambridge, UK. 

Research

  • Agriculture, land use change and climate change impacts on water and ecosystems
  • Freshwater biodiversity mapping and modelling 
  • Earth observation, Geographic Information System (GIS) and modelling
  • Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services
  • Low-cost environmental monitoring

 Arnout's current research focuses on integrating data, models and low-cost environmental sensors to better understand the role of nature based solutions in mitigating climate and other environmental (e.g. air and noise pollution) risks as part of the Horizon2020 funded project ReSET.

Further details

See Arnout's research profile