GLOBIO - Key Persons
Aafke Schipper joined the GLOBIO team in 2015 and currently leads the GLOBIO project. In addition, she holds an assistant professorship at Radboud University (Environmental Science). Her main interest is in quantifying human impacts on biodiversity and identifying strategies for conservation.
Alexandra Marques joined the GLOBIO team in 2020. Her work is currently focused on GLOBIO-ES. She has experience in modelling impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and on footprint modelling. She is also interested in translating this knowledge into options for conservation.
Arthur Beusen is senior researcher and advisor on methodology and modelling techniques and he manages the Global Nutrient Model.
Clara Veerkamp joined the GLOBIO team in 2015 where she works on the modelling of ecosystem services. In addition, Clara is also doing an PhD focused on the assessment of urban ecosystem services and how urban nature can contribute to address urban sustainability challenges (e.g. climate change, human health).
Douglas Spencer joined the GLOBIO team in 2022. He works on the further development of the GLOBIO-ES model.
Harry Wilting is a senior researcher on environmentally-extended multi-regional input-output analysis and works together with the GLOBIO team since 2015. He is using GLOBIO for biodiversity footprint modelling. In addition, he works on methodologies and policy analyses related to sustainable production and consumption.
Jan Janse is aquatic ecologist, a team member between 2006 and 2022. He developed the GLOBIO-Aquatic module for freshwater systems. He was responsible for development of the model for aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services, including policy applications and links with other models. Jan is also guest researcher at the Neth. Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Wageningen.
Jelle Hilbers joined the GLOBIO team in 2018 and is responsible for the GLOBIO model set-up, model simulations and quality control of input data and model output. He currently works as a research engineer at the Radboud University (Environmental Science).
Johan Meijer is a geographer and working with the GLOBIO between 2013 and 2022. He worked on the terrestrial and aquatic model framework development and applications from global to landscape scale, improving pressure datasets on land use and infrastructure and support for GLOBIO user interface.
Liam Vezzani joined GLOBIO in 2023. His reserach will focus on further developing GLOBIO-ES. His background is in Natural Sciences and Conservation Biology.
Martijn van der Marel joined the GLOBIO team in 2023. His main focus is on technical model development. He has a background in engineering and software development for research projects.
Milan Loreti was part of the GLOBIO team between 2021 and 2022. He worked on the modelling of (urban) ecosystem services. Additionally, Milan also worked on comparing different urban ecosystem service assessment tools to each other in order to highlight benefits and shortcomings of current methodologies.
Paul Giesen joined the GLOBIO team in 2019. He works on technical model development, applications and improvement of state and pressure input datasets. Paul has a background in geodesy and is a specialist in geographic information systems.
Rob Alkemade is a senior ecologist and has been involved with GLOBIO from the beginning. He manages the development and application of GLOBIO-ES and is a professor on global biodiversity and ecosystem services modelling at Wageningen University
Sido Mylius is senior researcher and advisor on methodology and modelling techniques. Sido joined the GLOBIO team in 2017.
Tamara Keijzer joined the GLOBIO team in 2021. She works on the further development of the GLOBIO-Aquatic model, and is doing a PhD on freshwater biodiversity modelling. Tamara has a background in physical geography.
Valerio Barbarossa joined PBL and the GLOBIO team in 2019. He is responsible for the further development of the GLOBIO-Aquatic model. In addition, he holds an assistant professorship at Leiden University (Industrial Ecology).