Jeroen Aerts is head of the department ‘Water and Climate Risk’. Jeroen has an established an internationally recognized leading position in the field of water and climate risk management with 24 key publications in Nature, Science and PNAS (H index ggl: 67). In 2020, he was awarded as the top 1% highly cited researcher globally, by Web of Science. In 2007 he was appointed to the chair in Risk and Insurance, and in 2012 to a second chair in Risk and Water management. Jeroen currently supervises a research group, with 15 academic staff, 34 PhD students and 8 post-docs addressing various aspects of water and climate risk management. He has developed and applied a wide range of assessment and modelling methods to analyze water risk (flood/drought) and climate adaptation at scales from local to global. The methods include: hydrological modelling, insurance, catastrophe modelling, agent-based modelling, scenario analysis, pathways, and optimization. Jeroen was awarded by the prestigious ERC Advanced grant in 2020 (2.5 mln Euros) and a NWO-VICI grant (1.5 mln Euros) in 2014. Jeroen also won the best paper award of the Journal of Risk Analysis i