Professor Han Winterwerp is an independent consultant on the subject of fine sediments in open waters, i.e. rivers, lakes, estuaries and coasts. Han Winterwerp retired in 2017 from Deltares (formerly Delft Hydraulics) and Delft University of Technology. He works in multi-disciplinary teams on management and engineering problems, lately with focus on Building with Nature solutions. His contributions are based on almost 40 years’ experience in numerical modeling, field surveys and laboratory analyses. He has been involved in nature restoration projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and North- and South-America.
conceptual modeling
teaching specialized courses
Prof. Johan Christian (Han) Winterwerp is expert on morphodynamics and sediment transport on cohesive sediment transport in lakes, riverine, estuarine and coastal environments. He worked for almost 40 years at Deltares (formerly Delft Hydraulics) and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has a unique experience in working in high-concentration environments, where fluid mud plays an important role. He has executed many hydrodynamic, hydro-thermal, hydro-sedimentological and hydro-morphological studies across the world as project leader and as expert in multi-disciplinary project teams, using the various mathematical models developed by Deltares (Delft Hydraulics), and supervising field surveys and laboratory analyses. Amongst these are sediment transport studies for the ports and access channels of Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Emden/Papenburg and Hamburg (Germany), Nantes (France), Cochin (India) and the Morebaya River (Guinea). He carried out studies on the sediment dynamics in Neva Bay (Russia), the Segara Anakan Lagoon (Indonesia), the Yangtze estuary and the Yellow River (China), the Humber estuary (UK), the Amazon River and Patos Lagoon (Brazil) and the Atchafalaya estuary and Passaic River (USA). Since twetny years he specialized in ICZM and Building with Nature solutions for managing the mangrove-mud coasts of e.g. Thailand, Guyana, Suriname, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
Prof. Han Winterwerp has been dedicated to basic research into the behavior and properties of cohesive sediments at Delft University of Technology. His contributions to solving complex mud problems are therefore always based on state-of-the-art science and tools. He is the author / co-author of more than 140 publications in scientific journals and reference books and contributed to many international conferences – these publications have been cited over 7,000 times. Though retired, Prof. Winterwerp still supervises a number of PhD-studies at Delft University of Technology.
Prof. Han Winterwerp has also a long track record on teaching. He teaches the advanced (post-)graduate course on Sediment Dynamics at Delft University of Technology. Based on this course, short courses were developed, being taught in the USA, China, Brazil and Belgium.
contact:
i-MUD, attn: Han Winterwerp
han.winterwerp@gmail.com, +31-6-38511963, Delft, The Netherlands
also: +55-21-99736-9613, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
