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Jose David Henao Casas

Postdoctoral Researcher, Water and Climate Risk Department of the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

My research focuses on the impacts of drought on groundwater systems in the Netherlands, and the implementation of solutions that can contribute to replenishing groundwater storage without posing flood risk. I conduct this research in the frame of two projects - GroundedExtremes and RESHAPE and uses primarily data and geospatial analysis and groundwater modelling. Prior to my postdoctoral research, I investigated the effects of large-scale managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems in rural Spain on an over-exploited aquifer (Los Arenales) for my PhD thesis. I also worked for more than two years as a technical coordinator of a groundwater monitoring programme in Colombia, and as water resources specialist employing primarily geospatial tools and data analysis.