Bas van Wesemael
elic | Louvain-la-Neuve
Personal details
Name: Bas van Wesemael
Date of Birth: 17 July 1959
Sex: Male
Nationality: Dutch
Qualifications
- BSc Physical Geography; University of Amsterdam; May 1982
- MSc Physical Geography; University of Amsterdam; February 1987
- PhD Environmental Science; University of Amsterdam; June 1992
Career details
10-2009- |
Full Professor in physical geography |
10-2003 to 9-2009 |
Associate Professor in physical geography |
10-2005 to 2-2010 |
Chair of Department Geology and Geography |
9-1999 to 10-2003 |
Assistant Professor |
9-1997 to 8-1999 |
Senior Lecturer, Member of Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, United Kingdom |
9-1995 to 8-1997 |
Lecturer Middlesex University, United Kingdom |
1-1993 to 6-1995 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Post doc research associate in European research project on Mediterranean desertification and land use (MEDALUS II) |
8-1992 to 12-1992 |
Valkenberg Raadgevend Ingenieursbureau, Haarlem, The Netherlands, Environmental consultant working on soil contamination |
Professional activities
- Principal investigator in research projects funded by EU (number of past and present projects of more than 1 year: 3), Federal government (4), Walloon Region (1), Commission Universitaire du développement (1), Communauté française en Belgique (1).
- Supervision of PhD students: 7 completed and 2 ongoing
- Co-organiser of 4 international congresses or sessions
- Associate editor European Journal of Soil Science
- Member of the Editorial Board of Catena
- Member of the Commission ‘Earth Science and Climate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO), Flanders
- Visiting scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University (USA° from September to December 2009
- Publications: 60 in peer reviewed journal covered by the science citation index (H index = 16), 5 in other peer reviewed journals, 18 book chapters and 5 in journals without peer review