Professor dr.ir. Floris Boogaard PhD has over 20 years’ experience in research, entrepreneurship and consultancy in international climate adaptation. His projects integrate the worlds of spatial planning and water management and encourage the implementation of sustainable climate adaptation. Floris Boogaard accepted a professorship Spatial Transformations at the school of Architecture, Built Environment & Civil Engineering at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen in 2013 working on urban climate adaptation around the world in close relation with other (applied) universities. Floris Boogaard is currently an affiliated researcher at GCA (The Global Centre of Adaptation) that accelerates climate adaptation by recognising, building and promoting excellence among all relevant stakeholder groups around the world. Floris Boogaard was nominated as engineer of the year in 2011, won the national climate adaptation award in 2014. Floris launched climatescan.org platform and www.climatecafe.nl