Team

Current team members

  • Alexandra Marques

Alexandra Marques is a senior researcher at PBL. She joined the GLOBIO team in 2020 and leads the GLOBIO project since 2023. Her main interests are on modelling and quantifying the relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the economy, and on exploring options to improve outcomes for nature and people.

  • Clara Veerkamp

Clara Veerkamp, an environmental scientist, since 2015 part of the GLOBIO team and currently deputy project lead. Clara is responsible for advancing ecosystem services modeling in urban and rural areas, focusing particularly on nature’s role in tackling societal challenges, like climate change, human health and biodiversity loss

  • Aafke Schipper

Aafke Schipper has been part of the GLOBIO team since 2015, first as deputy project lead, then as project lead (2018-2024), and currently as senior advisor. In addition, she holds an associate professorship at Radboud University (Environmental Science department). Her main interest is in quantifying human impacts on biodiversity and identifying strategies for conservation.

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  • Rob Alkemade

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

  • Mark van Oorschot

Mark van Oorschot is a senior ecologist and has been involved with GLOBIO since 2004. His work is focused on applying the GLOBIO knowledge in policy and business contexts, for instance by integrating MSA in EMRIO and LCA analyses.

  • Paul Giesen

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.

  • Martijn van der Marel

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.

  • Hanneke van 't Veen

Hanneke van ‘t Veen joined the GLOBIO team in 2022. She works on the further integration of forest management effects on terrestrial biodiversity in the GLOBIO model.

  • Liam Vezzani

Liam Vezzani joined GLOBIO in 2023 and has a background in natural sciences and conservation biology. He focuses on pollination modeling for the GLOBIO-ES module and developing characterization factors to assess land use impacts on ecosystem services.

  • Manuka Khan

Manuka Khan joined the GLOBIO team in 2025. She is working on a European biodiversity scenario database, which includes GLOBIO research work. She is specialized in using geographic information systems for biodiversity conservation and monitoring.

  • Valerio Barbarossa

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).

  • Douglas Spencer

Douglas Spencer joined the GLOBIO team in 2022. He works on the further development of the GLOBIO-ES model.

  • Arthur Beusen

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

  • Sido Mylius

Sido Mylius is senior researcher and advisor on methodology and modelling techniques. Sido joined the GLOBIO team in 2017.

  • Jelle Hilbers

Jelle Hilbers joined the GLOBIO team in 2018. He is responsible for the further development of the GLOBIO-Species model. In addition, he holds an assistant professorship at Radboud University (Environmental Science).

  • Koen Kuipers

Koen Kuipers joined the GLOBIO team in 2025, although he has been contributing to GLOBIO work since 2020. He contributes to the development of GLOBIO and GLOBIO-Species and is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University in the Department of Environmental Science

Former team members

  • Sandy van Tol

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  • Jan Janse

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.

  • Johan Meijer

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.

  • Milan Loreti

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.

  • Tamara Keijzer

Tamara Keijzer joined the GLOBIO team from 2021 – 2024. She worked on the further development of the GLOBIO-Aquatic model, particularly on freshwater biodiversity modelling. Tamara has a background in physical geography.

  • Harry Wilting

Harry Wilting is a senior researcher on environmentally-extended multi-regional input-output analysis and worked together with the GLOBIO team from 2015 – 2024. He used GLOBIO for biodiversity footprint modelling. In addition, he worked on methodologies and policy analyses related to sustainable production and consumption.