1. Prof. Dr. Marc F.P. Bierkens holds the chair in Geographical Hydrology at the
Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University and acts currently as
chairman of the department. Marc Bierkens (1965) received his MSc in
Hydrology from Wageningen University (1990), a PhD in Physical Geography
from Utrecht University (1994). Between 1994 and 2002 he worked as a senior
scientist and team leader at Alterra Research institute in Wageningen and
became professor of Hydrology at Utrecht University in He is also partly
employed byDeltares where is a member of the scientific council. Between 2004
and 2010 Marc Bierkens was a member of the scientific advisory board of ITC at
Enschede. Marc Bierkens’ fields of expertise are groundwater hydrology,
stochastic hydrology, hydrological regionalisation, upscaling theory and
geostatistics. Recently initiated work comprises integrated modelling of soil
water—vegetation dynamics, data-assimilation methods for operational water
management and global-scale hydrological modelling in relation to climate and
water scarcity.
Marc Bierkens is a member of the European Geosciences Union, the American
Geophysical Union and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
and is associate editor for Water Resources Research and Geoderma. He co
organised the IAHS ModelCARE conference in 2005 in The Netherlands. Marc
Bierkens (co-)authored about 130 publications, over 70 of which appeared in
international peer-reviewed journals. He is principal author of the book Upscaling
and Downscaling Methods for Environmental Research (2002), co-author of the
book Sampling for Natural Resource Monitoring (2006) and editor of the book
Climate and the Hydrological Cycle (2008).