Peter Goethals
Peter Goethals is a professor in applied water ecology and sustainable water management at the Ghent University in Belgium. He started his research in 1996 at the Ghent University, mainly focusing on consultancy for the government. In 2005 he obtained his PhD on the integration of informatics in ecological river management, and he became professor in 2007. He combines fundamental and applied research, with a focus on innovation of monitoring, assessment and modelling methods to support decision-making in water management. In addition to his lab and field research in Belgium, he has a long-standing cooperation with universities and governments in Latin-America, Africa and Asia, in particular related to the sustainability analysis of surface waters and river basins. He is member of IWA since 1995, Belgian Chairman of the national IWA organization (B-IWA) between 2009 and 2013 and became IWA Fellow in 2016. He is part of the board of the Sustainable Water specialist group of IWA since several years.
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