Research partners

Through our Indo Dutch collaboration we can combine Indian ingenuity with Dutch water technology.

Indian and Dutch research institutes and universities are collaborating within the LOTUSHR programme. Combined, over 30 top researchers are actively engaged in bringing LOTUSHR to bloom! We are happy to introduce to you our research team:

 

Programme Leaders

Prof. Dr. Ir Merle de Kreuk

Prof. Dr. Ir Merle de Kreuk

TU Delft
Prof. Dr. T.R. Sreekrishnan

Prof. Dr. T.R. Sreekrishnan

IIT Delhi

Project 1a

Eddy Moors

Eddy Moors

VU
Joyita Ghose

Joyita Ghose

TERI
Mehar Kaur

Mehar Kaur

TERI
Shilpi Kapur

Shilpi Kapur

TERI
Sumit Vij

Sumit Vij

VU

Project 1b

Bruno Perez

Bruno Perez

PhD Candidate | TU Delft
Doris van Halem

Doris van Halem

TU Delft
Gert-Jan Medema

Gert-Jan Medema

TU Delft
Giuliana Ferrero

Giuliana Ferrero

IHE
Luuk Rietveld

Luuk Rietveld

TU Delft
Pawan Labhasetwar

Pawan Labhasetwar

NEERI
Pranav Nagarnaik

Pranav Nagarnaik

NEERI
Rajashree Hajare

Rajashree Hajare

PhD Candidate | NEERI
Tineke Hooijmans

Tineke Hooijmans

IHE

Project 2

Antonella Piaggio

Antonella Piaggio

PhD Candidate | TU Delft
Aravind Purushothaman

Aravind Purushothaman

TU Delft
Biju I.K.

Biju I.K.

PhD Candidate | IIT Delhi
Hector Garcia

Hector Garcia

IHE
Jules van Lier

Jules van Lier

TU Delft
Malini Balakrishnan

Malini Balakrishnan

TERI
Merle de Kreuk

Merle de Kreuk

TU Delft
Ralph Lindeboom

Ralph Lindeboom

TU Delft
Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad

Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad

IIT Delhi
Steef de Valk

Steef de Valk

TU Delft
Sushila Yadav

Sushila Yadav

TERI
Prof. Dr. T.R. Sreekrishnan

Prof. Dr. T.R. Sreekrishnan

IIT Delhi
Tineke Hooijmans

Tineke Hooijmans

IHE
Vidya S Batra

Vidya S Batra

TERI
Virendra K. Vijay

Virendra K. Vijay

IIT Delhi
Gaurav Goel

Gaurav Goel

TERI

Project 3a

Elackiya Sithamparanathan

Elackiya Sithamparanathan

PhD Candidate | WUR
Huub Rijnaarts

Huub Rijnaarts

WUR
Katarzyna Kujawa

Katarzyna Kujawa

WUR
Nora Sutton

Nora Sutton

WUR
Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad

Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad

IIT Delhi

Project 3b

Anushree Malik

Anushree Malik

IIT Delhi
Ellen van Donk

Ellen van Donk

NIOO KNAW
Louise Vet

Louise Vet

NIOO KNAW
Lukas Trebuch

Lukas Trebuch

PhD Candidate | NIOO KNAW
Marcel Janssen

Marcel Janssen

WUR
Rene Wijffels

Rene Wijffels

WUR
Tania Fernandes

Tania Fernandes

NIOO KNAW
Vivek Dalvi

Vivek Dalvi

PhD Candidate | IIT Delhi

Project management

Theo den Bieman

Theo den Bieman

DBT
Pushap Chawla

Pushap Chawla

IIT Delhi
Steef de Valk

Steef de Valk

TU Delft

Steering Committee

C. R. Babu

C. R. Babu

University of Delhi
Huub Rijnaarts

Huub Rijnaarts

WUR
Kadathur B. Ramachandran

Kadathur B. Ramachandran

IIT Madras
Luuk Rietveld

Luuk Rietveld

TU Delft
Vijay Raghavan

Vijay Raghavan

Indian Government
Illustrations: Projekt C www.projektc.nl| Text: Steef de Valk & Maaike Spuij | Logo: Annemarie van Aken