Strategic Professorship
College of Science and Engineering
Okke Batelaan is Strategic Professor in Hydro(geo)logy 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 groundwater hydrology, groundwater modelling, GIS and remote sensing for hydrological applications. He supervised more than 200 MSc/PhD students from all continents. 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, Australia, Asia, Africa and South America.
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