Victor Jetten
Professor In Natural Hazards And Disaster Risk Management
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVictor Jetten is a professor of Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management at the University of Twente with over two decades of academic and applied experience in spatial hazard modelling, curriculum design, and capacity development across East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. He created the MSc Spatial Engineering program and directs the IRDR International Center of Excellence for Decision Support Systems, translating advanced flood, landslide and land degradation models (notably openLISEM) into decision-ready tools. His background spans hands-on field hydrology and soil erosion research to leadership in postgraduate education, reflecting a rare combination of practical tropical rainforest hydrology expertise and systems-level modelling. Based in Enschede, he is known for building interdisciplinary curricula and operational models that bridge research, policy and on-the-ground disaster risk reduction.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Rainforest Hydrology and selective logging, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Rainforest Hydrology and selective logging at University of Utrecht
English, French, German
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Github Skills (21)
openframeworks8
openmp6
oculus6
loops6
oculus-quest6
virtual5
uds5
wiimote5
opencv4
python3
joystick3
hydrology3
prediction-model3
simulation3
environmental3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vjetten/openlisem
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
The opensource erosion, runoff and flood model openLISEM. Lisence GPLv3
Contributions:2 releases, 504 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 9 months
vjetten/openLISEMdata
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 78 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
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