Prof. Marnik Vanclooster is professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He completed his Ph.D. studies in soil physics and developed research projects in the area of water resources engineering, agricultural water management, and vadose zone hydrology. He has 30 years of experience in executing and leading research projects at the national level, at the EU level, and elsewhere (in particular the Maghreb and Central Africa). He is head of the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain. He was elected chair of the Vadose Zone Division at EGU (2011–2013) and the Belgian Commission for the UNESCO–IHP (2013–2016). He is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of Hydrology and the Vadose Zone Journal and currently serves on the editorial board of Agricultural Water Management and Hydrology and Earth Sciences Systems Journal (HESS).