Horst Complex

dr. O. Mialyk (Oleksandr)

Researcher
ET-CEM-MWM
Horst Complex W214
o.mialyk@utwente.nl
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Since childhood, I’ve been closely connected to farming and water management. The passion for both topics eventually brought me to the University of Twente, where I am researching complex cross-disciplinary interactions between global water resources, agrifood systems, climate change, and society. Recent projects include analysing the historical water footprints of humanity with the World Bank Group and contributing to a multi-model assessment of future crop yields under climate change with AgMIP/ISIMIP. Besides research, I also serve as an outreach coordinator at the Water Footprint Network, give awareness-raising talks & interviews, and co-organise the annual Water-Energy-Food Nexus Symposium for early-career scientists.

For more information about my research, projects, and media appearances, please check the corresponding tabs. 

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Water Footprint
    • Water Consumption
    • Crop Production
    • Water Scarcity
    • Water Use
    • Water

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

    • Crop Models
    • Crops

Organisations

Publications

2025

A new era of global crop water footprint estimates (2025)Nature Food, 6(10), 916-917. Mialyk, O.https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01243-7Data underlying the publication: Water Use in Spanish Agriculture (2001–2019): Trends and Impacts of Irrigation Intensification (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Arbonès, G., Mialyk, O., Garrido, A. & De Stefano, L.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17144336Nutrient production, water consumption, and stresses of large-scale versus small-scale agriculture: A global comparative analysis based on a gridded crop model (2025)Global Food Security, 45, 100844. Article 100844. Su, H., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R. J., Luna-Gonzalez, D. V., Mialyk, O., Willaarts, B., Wang, Y. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100844Complementary strengths of water footprint and life cycle assessments in analyzing global freshwater appropriation and its local impacts – Recommendations from an Interdisciplinary discussion series (2025)Ecological indicators, 174. Article 113458. Berger, M., Gerbens-Leenes, W., Karandish, F., Aldaya, M. M., Boulay, A. M., Hogeboom, R. J., Link, A., Manzardo, A., Mialyk, O., Motoshita, M., Nuñez, M., Pfister, S., Rosenbaum, R. K., Scherer, L., Su, H. & Wöhler, L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113458

2024

Evolution of global water footprints of crop production in 1990–2019 (2024)Environmental research letters, 19(11). Article 114015. Mialyk, O., Booij, M. J., Schyns, J. F. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad78e9Spatial and temporal patterns of global crop water footprints (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Mialyk, O.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036562058Water footprints and crop water use of 175 individual crops for 1990–2019 simulated with a global crop model (2024)Scientific Data, 11. Article 206. Mialyk, O., Schyns, J. F., Booij, M. J., Su, H., Hogeboom, R. J. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03051-3Global gridded crop model ACEA (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Mialyk, O., Su, H., Hogeboom, R. J., Schyns, J. F. & Booij, M. J.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10510933Data underlying the publication: Small-scale and large-scale agriculture across water-scarce and water-abundant regions (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Su, H., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R. J., Luna-Gonzalez, D. V., Willaarts, B., Mialyk, O., Wang, Y. & Krol , M.https://doi.org/10.4121/de21d6c2-95f7-42e5-a3cf-f5b66b559924

2023

Head in the clouds, feet on the ground: how transdisciplinary learning can foster transformative change—insights from a summer school (2023)Biodiversity and conservation, 32(11), 3533-3568. Atienza Casas, S., Calicis, C., Candiago, S., Dendoncker, N., Desair, J., Fickel, T., Finne, E. A., Frison, C., Haensel, M., Hinsch, M., Kulfan, T., Kumagai, J. A., Mialyk, O., Nawrath, M., Nevzati, F., Washbourne, C. & Wübbelmann, T.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02603-0

Research profiles

Research projects

  • Regional report: Potential for Sustainable Irrigation Development across Europe and Central Asia by the World Bank Group (lead author, 2024 - present) 
  • Flagship report: State of Global Water Resources by the World Bank Group (contributor, 2023 - 2025)

Co-organisation of events

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W214
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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