Strategic Professorship
College of Science and Engineering
Okke Batelaan is Strategic Professor in Hydrogeology at Flinders University since 2012. He was Dean of the School of the Environment at Flinders from 2015-2017. Formerly he was for more than 20 years faculty member at the Free University Brussels and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Professor Batelaan has a broad experience in teaching integrated water resources management, groundwater hydrology, groundwater modelling, GIS and remote sensing for hydrological applications. He (co-)supervised to successful completion more than 200 students for their Master or PhD thesis. He has extensive research experience and a publication record in shallow groundwater hydrology and modeling, recharge-discharge estimation and modeling, urban hydrology and distributed modelling, ecohydrology and impacts of landuse and climate change on groundwater systems. He coordinated and participated in a large number of projects in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. He is a board member of the Goyder Institute for Water Research, editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies and Chair of the Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Hydrology.
PhD in Engineering (Free University Brussels); MSc Hydrogeology (Free University Amsterdam)
One Basin CRC Lead for Education and Training
Chair of Editors-in-Chief Journal of Hydrology
Board member Goyder Institute for Water Research
I am coordinator of the Master of Science Water Resources Management, see for details: Water Resources Management postgraduate program
See for complete list of publications: publicationslist.org/okke.batelaan