Teaching, Mentoring, and Mentors
Teaching and Lecturing
Critical thinking and understanding diverse perspectives are key skills for addressing complex social and environmental problems. In my teaching and mentoring, I aim to guide students in developing these skills and in discovering their passions and interests.
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At UvA, I coordinate and teach two courses, "Water Governance" and "Water Management", which are part of the Bachelor program Future Planet Studies. At the Master level, I am teaching a course on "Human-Environment Interactions" (start: 2024), which I developed together with Lies Jacobs, which is offered through the Master Earth Sciences programme.
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A guest lecture on "Balancing resource security, climate resilience, and environmental sustainability from local to global scales" that I gave a while ago at Purdue's Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Colloquium can be found here.
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Class of undergraduate civil engineering students at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Darkhan after a guest seminar on "Sustainable Urban Development".
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Theses supervision and mentoring
I supervise Bachelor theses on topics related to urban sustainability (current projects: Sustainable Amsterdam and How renewable are renewable energies?) for the Bachelor programmes in Future Planet Studies and Biology at UvA or for the Amsterdam University College.
Master students I have (co-)supervised come from the Master Earth Sciences at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Master program International Development Studies (MIDS) at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at UvA.
Past Master students: Farah Hasan (HydroScience '20, Dresden University of Technology, co-supervisor: D. Borchardt), 2023: Sophie Mossman and Mijke Pruijs (co-supervisor: Prof. N. Pouw (UvA)), Gabriele La Bruna, Mitchell Keip, Sol Aguëro (co-supervisor: Prof. J. Grin).
Current Master students: Jin Wang, Marilène de Rooij, Insiya Khan, Michelle Lara (Master Earth Sciences, UvA).
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Current PhD students: Sophia Hildebrandt (Trajectories of Urban Water Security (TRACER) program of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ). Co-mentored by A. Ruhl (UBA) and D. Borchardt (UFZ/TUDresden).
Shreyas Gadge (started in August 2023, Master at IISER Mohali, India).