Professor Okke Batelaan
National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, College of Science and Engineering
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Okke Batelaan holds a PhD in Engineering from the Free University of Brussels and an MSc in Hydrogeology from the Free University of Amsterdam. He has been a strategic hydro (geo)logy professor at the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, since 2012.
At Flinders University, he is the Chief Investigator in the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. He teaches courses on groundwater hydrology, groundwater modeling, and integrated water resources management.
Previously, he worked for more than 20 years at the Free University Brussels and the KU Leuven, Belgium. He is passionate about guiding students in their research; he has supervised more than 200 MSc/PhD students from all continents.
Professor Batelaan has research expertise and an extensive publication record in shallow groundwater hydrology, recharge-discharge estimation, urban hydrology, distributed hydrological/groundwater modeling, ecohydrology, land-use and climate change impacts on groundwater systems, and the history of hydrology.
His main interest is advancing hydro-geology at the interface with other sciences through transdisciplinary collaboration. He has collaborated with many researchers and institutes on projects in Australia, Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. He is the Education and Training Lead for the One Basin CRC, a member of the Board of the Goyder Institute for Water Research, and Chair of Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Hydrology.
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/okke.batelaan
Okke.Batelaan@flinders.edu.au