Roel Burgers, Msc.

Roel Burgers completed a study on ‘Transnational Ecosystem based water management’ at the University of Duisburg-Essen and then worked for an consultant and a municipality in Norway in the field of hydrology, GIS and dredging. He has been working for Rijkswaterstaat since 2016. Since 2017 he has been involved in projects in the field of water distribution in the Dutch river systems, salt water intrusion (also as a member of the PIANC working group salt water intrusion) and the 2018 drought.

Roel Burgers has been working in the operational water department of Rijkswaterstaat since 2020 as CHR Secretary and information coordinator for low and high water events.