Elise Verstraeten

Elise Verstraeten is a researcher in the field of integrated water management, working part-time at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and part-time at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).

She graduated as environmental engineer at the UCLouvain in 2018. In 2018-2019 she did a complementary master in Artificial Intelligence at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). After her studies, she worked one year as consultant in geographic information systems at Esri Belux.

Since October 2020 she is working at the UCLouvain on the EGERIEC project. Her role is to analyze the water quality data of water intake structures in Wallonia, to characterize its evolution over the past 20 years.

In September 2022 Elise also joined the VUB, where she is part of the BrusseauBis project and of the collaboration between the infrastructure department and the hydrology department. Both initiatives aim at evaluating the role and the potential of blue-green infrastructure for integrated rain water management in Brussels and on the VUB campuses respectively.