Horst Complex

dr. J.J. Warmink (Jord)

Associate Professor
ET-CEM-WS
Horst Complex W212
j.j.warmink@utwente.nl
+31534892831
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My scientific interests revolve around pioneering research to develop sustainable solutions for river and coastal systems to mitigate impacts of increasingly extreme floods and droughts. Together with colleagues, I work on generating fundamental understanding and Nature Based Solutions for Flood Risk Management and Fresh Water Availability. I’m convinced that developing practical design tools is essential to ensure this knowledge is utilized. Therefore, I work closely with national and international partners, such as water-authorities, knowledge institutes and private companies.

In addition to research, educating the new generation of engineers, researchers and policy makers is equally if not more important. I’m an engaged teacher of the third year Bachelor course Multifunctional Flood Defences in which the students learn to integrate a multifunctional flood defence with the many other functions of an urban landscape in an interdisciplinary setting. I also teach the MSc course Hydraulic Engineering, in which students learn to assess and design flood embankments and hydraulic structures and develop integrated and climate-resilient solutions for flood protection within an increasingly complex world.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Model
    • Overtopping
    • River
    • Dyke (Water management)
    • Wave
    • Investigation
    • Roughness
    • Flood

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Together with PhD and MSc students my research has benefitted practical implementation in models and guidelines. I have co-authored over 35 papers in peer-reviewed journals and my work is presented in more than 120 conferences, workshops and professional articles and reports. My current research advances numerical modelling for dike cover erosion, laboratory experiments for improving sea wall design, stochastic modelling frameworks for flood risk management and sustainable solutions for river bed dynamics under extreme droughts. This knowledge feeds into more accurate process-based models and tools for flood risk reduction and resilience against droughts.

Publications

2026

Statistical classification of river dune fields in the Middle Waal River (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 8th International Conference on Marine and River Dune Dynamics, MARID 2026. Medina Ormachea, R. E., Warmink, J. J., Bogatinoska, B. & Hulscher, S. J. M. H.The effect of discharge variations on scour hole evolution in a heterogeneous river bed (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 8th International Conference on Marine and River Dune Dynamics, MARID 2026. Oldenhof, M., Warmink, J. J., Blanckaert, K. & Hulscher, S. J. M. H.Spatiotemporal numerical modeling of wave overtopping flow over dike crests and landward slopes (2026)Applied ocean research, 168. Article 104972. van der Vegt, N., Hofland, B., van Bergeijk, V. M., Hulscher, S. J. M. H. & Warmink, J. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2026.104972The importance of system interactions in hydrodynamic models of parts of complex interconnected deltas (2026)Environmental modelling & software, 198. Article 106838. Welsch, N. M., Warmink, J. J., Hulscher, S. J. M. H. & Augustijn, D. C. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106838Scour hole behaviour: A field study of the Dutch Rhine Delta (2026)Earth surface processes and landforms, 51(2). Article e70252. Oldenhof, M., Warmink, J. J., Blanckaert, K. & Hulscher, S. J. M. H.https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70252Experimental investigation of the flow field in a scour hole in a river (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] NCR Days 2026. Oldenhof, M., Warmink, J. J., Blanckaert, K. & Hulscher, S. J. M. H.https://cdn.bullit.digital/kbase/20260330140553/NCR_DAYS_proceedings_2026.pdfFast spatiotemporal flood modelling after a dike breach (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] NCR Days 2026. Besseling, L. S., Bomers, A., Warmink, J. J. & Hulscher, S. J. M. H.https://cdn.bullit.digital/kbase/20260330140553/NCR_DAYS_proceedings_2026.pdfHydro- and morphodynamic LES modelling of scour holes in rivers (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] NCR Days 2026. Paternotte, L., Oldenhof, M., Barneveld, H., Born, S. & Warmink, J. J.https://cdn.bullit.digital/kbase/20260330140553/NCR_DAYS_proceedings_2026.pdf

Research profiles

2022-now     Living Dikes (funded by NWO-ORC). https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/research-living-dikes-grow-rising-sea-level

2022-now     FutureDikes research project (funded by HWBP, lead by Waterboard Rivierenland). https://www.waterschaprivierenland.nl/future-dikes-sterke-en-natuurlijke-dijk

2021-now     Hydraulic river modelling approaches to simulate high flow and low flow conditions (funded by UTwente). https://www.utwente.nl/en/et/cem/research/wem/research/projects/khorsandi/

2021-now     Member Expert Network Fresh Water and Drought, advisory committee for Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.

2021-now     Member editorial advisory board of international journal Natural Hazards. https://www.springer.com/journal/11069

2021            Chair organiser NCR-days 2021 conference, February 11-12 2021, Enschede (online). https://ncr-web.org/events/ncr-days-2021/

2020-now     Rivers2Morrow research project (funded by Rijkswaterstaat). https://ncr-web.org/projects/rivers2morrow/

2020            Associate editor special issue Resilient Flood Defences in Journal Marine Science and Engineering. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/special_issues/Resilient_Flood_Defences

2016-2022    All-Risk research project (funded by NWO-Perspectief). https://kbase.ncr-web.org/all-risk/.

                      PhD thesis Van Bergeijk: https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553414.

                      PhD thesis Gensen: https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553056.

                      PhD thesis Chen: https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553001.

2015-2020    RiverCare research project (funded by NWO-Perspectief). https://kbase.ncr-web.org/rivercare/

                      PhD thesis Berends: https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036548823.

2014            Organizer of the NCR-days 2014 conference, October 2-3 2014, Enschede.

2012-2016:   Integral and sustainable design of Multifunctional Flood Defences research project (funded by NWO-Perspectief).

                      PhD thesis Aguilar-Lopez: https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036542586.

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W212
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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