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 three courses: "Water Governance" and "Water Management" are part of the Bachelor program Future Planet Studies. In the Master program Earth Sciences, I teach a course on "Human-Environment Interactions", which I developed together with my colleague Lies Jacobs.
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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 theses on topics related to social-ecological systems and their resilience and sustainability for the Bachelor programmes Future Planet Studies and Biology at UvA or for the Amsterdam University College, and in the Master programmes Earth Sciences and International Development Studies, as well as an external supervisor for other programmes.
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.
Completed: 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), 2024: Marilène de Rooij, Jin Wang, Linda Beard.
Current: Insiya Khan, Rok Jesenko, Roy van Tol, Maria Zervoudaki, Erik Albers, (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 (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics. Co-advised by André de Roos (promoter) and Vítor V. Vasconcelos).
Bernice Ephraim-Armoo (IHE Delft. Co-advised by Klaas Schwartz (promoter) and Mireia Tutusaus).
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Upcoming PhD students:
Docia Agyapong (start: October 2024)
Max Verweg (start: September 2024)