Professional Specialization:
Sediment transport and Morphodynamics development in estuarine and coastal environments
Research Interests:
He has executed many hydrodynamic, hydro-thermal and hydro-morphological studies in almost 30 countries across the world as project leader and as expert in multi-disciplinary project teams, using the various mathematical models developed by Deltares (Delft Hydraulics), field work, scale model tests and laboratory analyses. Amongst these are sediment transport studies for the ports of Rotterdam, The Netherlands; of Antwerp in the Scheldt estuary, Belgium/Netherlands; of Cochin, India; for Neva Bay, St. Petersburg, Russia; for the Segara Anakan Lagoon, Java, Indonesia; for the Yangtze estuary and the Yellow River, China; for the Humber estuary, UK; for the Loire estuary, France; for the Amazon River and Patos Lagoon, Brazil; and for the Atchafalaya estuary and Passaic River, USA. Furthermore, he has worked on the mud-mangrove coasts of Thailand, Guyana, Suriname, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Presently, his focus is on Building with Nature solutions for engineering and managerial problems. For many years, a major part of the work of Prof. Winterwerp is dedicated to basic research into the behavior and properties of cohesive sediments and the application of the results to estuarine studies through his part-time affiliation as professor with Delft University of Technology. He is the author/co-author of more than 140 publications in Scientific Journals and Reference Books and contributed to many International Conferences – these publications have been cited almost 4,000 times, and two publications have received international awards. Prof Winterwerp is editor of two international journals and reviewer for 10 other journals. Prof. Winterwerp supervised 25 PhD-projects and numerous MSc-projects.
Active Professional Memberships：
Member International Association for Hydraulic Research
Editor Ocean Dynamic (Springer Verlag).
Member J.M. Burgers Centre, Research School for Fluid Mechanics.
AGU: American Geophysical Union
Editor International Journal of Sediment Research (Elsevier)
Selected Publications
J.C. Winterwerp, J. Vroom, Z.-B. Wang, M. Krebs, H.C.M. Hendriks, D.S. Van Maren, K. Schrottke, C. Borgsmüller and A. Schöl,(2017) “SPM response to variations in hydrodynamics in the Ems River”, on-line Ocean Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s10236-017-1043-6.
D.S. van Maren, J.C. Winterwerp and J. Vroom,(2015) “Fine sediment transport into the hyper-turbid lower Ems River: the role of channel deepening and sediment-induced drag reduction”, Ocean Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s10236-015-0821-2, on-line.
J.C. Winterwerp, P.L.A. Erftemeijer, N. Suryadiputra, P. van Eijk and Liquan Zhang,(2013) “Defining eco-morphodynamic requirements for rehabilitating eroding mangrove-mud coasts”, Wetlands,DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0409-x, Volume 33, Issue 3, pp 515-526.
J.C. Winterwerp, W.G.M van Kesteren, B. van Prooijen and W. Jacobs, “A conceptual framework for shear-flow induced erosion of cohesive sediment beds”, AGU, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 117, C10020, doi:10/0129/2012JC008072.
