HKV employs 15 consultants with a PhD degree. That is almost a quarter of the employees who work at HKV as consultants. Some recent promotions are listed below.
Lieke Lokin succesfully defended her PhD thesis at University Twente in May 2024. In her research Lieke focussed on the dynamics of river dunes, especially during (extreme) low discharges and the transition from high discharges towards the low discharges. She strived to develop a model to predict the dune size during high and low flows.
Joost Pol defended his PhD thesis Cum Laude on the 6st of December 2022. Joost started his PhD in September 2017, studying how dike safety assessments can be improved by including flood duration and time-dependent failure processes such as piping erosion. He performed his research at TU Delft as part of the All Risk Research Program.