J.A. (Job) van der Werf

J.A. (Job) van der Werf

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Biography

I started as an Assistant Professor in Urban Water Systems here at the TU Delft in April 2023. My main research interests are related to water quality issues in cities, and my research therefore mainly focusses on the monitoring, modelling and optimising of urban wastewater systems. I aim to develop and evaluate new techniques to aid in the better management of urban water quality, but also try to understand how transitions in the urban environment affect our water supply and the way in which we deal with wastewater and rainfall.
Before this, I worked on my doctoral research (finished in May 2023) on a project called "Real-Time Control of Sewer Systems", within the Kennisprogramme Urban Drainage (ran by Dr. ir. Jeroen Langeveld). Before my PhD, I finished my Masters' in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. 

Expertise

My expertise lay in the modelling of urban drainage systems, real-time optimisation algorithms and the development of heuristic procedures for control. Robustness and resilience and optimisation under uncertainty also fall within my work.

Projects

My PhD work fell under the  Kennis Programma Urban Drainage, headed by Dr. ir. Jeroen Langeveld, a consortium from Dutch companies, municipalities and waterboards to collectively work on the main issues around urban drainage in the Dutch context

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