Team

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.

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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

Jan Janse is aquatic ecologist, a team member since 2006 and he developed the GLOBIO-Aquatic module for freshwater systems. He is responsible for the further 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.

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).

Johan Meijer is a geographer and working with the GLOBIO team since 2013. He works 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.

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.

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Arthur Beusen is senior researcher and advisor on methodology and modelling techniques and he manages the Global Nutrient 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.

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). 

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).