Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen holds MSc degrees in soil science (Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands) and atmospheric and climate sciences (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), and a PhD degree in hydrogeology (Technical University of Valencia, Spain).
Currently he leads a research group at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) on “Stochastical Analysis of Terrestrial Systems” and is full professor at the RWTH Aachen (Germany). His research interests are land surface modelling and hydrological modelling, with a special emphasis on model-measurement data fusion methods like inverse modelling and data assimilation.
His team works with models at different spatial scales ranging from small catchments to continents (Europe, Africa) to address questions related to the impact of climate change and land use change on water resources and ecosystems, sustainable use of groundwater, and short and medium term predictions of water resources for improved water resources management.