About Geert Prinsen

Mr. Prinsen is an engineer in applied mathematics and has 30 years of professional experience in hydrology, hydraulics and water management. He implemented and applied the computational framework in many water resources management studies in the Netherlands and abroad. In the Netherlands, he is at present involved in the Netherlands Hydrological Instrument (NHI) and Delta model projects and the policy analysis study for the Delta-programme Fresh water.

He is responsible for the Rainfall-Runoff module and Real Time Control module of the SOBEK 2 Suite and the D-Hydrology module (lumped and distributed concepts) and the D-Real Time Control module of the Delft3D FM Suite, the successor of SOBEK.

Abroad, he is at present involved in the Upper Citarum Basin Flood Management study and the Jakarta Flood Management Strategy study in Indonesia. He has extensive experience in Asian countries as Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Pakistan. In Indonesia he was resident surface water systems analyst in the JWRMS project on water management in the greater Jakarta area. He participated in peatland hydrology projects in Sumatra and Kalimantan, and in the flood management projects FHM2, S3I and FMIS in Jakarta. He participated in urban drainage master plan studies in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Hong Kong (Yuen Long and North Districts), and in Singapore he was responsible for rainfall-runoff and hydraulic modelling of the Marina Reservoir system and the Punggol-Serangoon reservoir system. In Taiwan he was involved in both water resources planning and flooding studies for Kaoping and Tanshui river basins. In Pakistan he contributed to the Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) and underlying models for Indus river and Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej tributaries. He participated in water management and flooding studies in other countries as Surinam, Colombia, Trinidad, Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Greece and Spain.