Dr. Philip Kraaijenbrink

Chief Technology Officer

Assistant Professor, Mountain Hydrology, Utrecht University

Dr. Philip Kraaijenbrink is a physical geographer and data science expert with 12 years of experience studying climate change impacts on the cryosphere and mountain water cycles. He earned his PhD cum laude at Utrecht University, where his pioneering work leveraged Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to monitor and model glacier changes in the Himalaya. Philip excels in satellite image analysis, numerical modelling, and spatial data science, and has extensive fieldwork experience in the Alps, Himalaya, Scandinavia, and the Canadian Rockies. As Assistant Professor, he teaches statistics, numerical modelling, GIS, and data analysis, while supervising a new generation of researchers exploring high mountain environments using quantitative techniques.