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1 Curriculum Vitae M.T.H. van Vliet PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Michelle T.H. van Vliet Date of birth 24 December 1982 Nationality Netherlands Civil status Married, two children Employers Wageningen University P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria EDUCATION PhD, Earth System Science and Climate Change Wageningen University, The Netherlands Thesis title: Global Rivers Warming Up: Impact on Cooling Water Use in the Energy Sector and Freshwater Ecosystems With distinction Cum Laude (top 2-3% level) BSc and MSc, Physical Geography Utrecht University, The Netherlands Courses in hydrology, climate change and quaternary geology With distinction Cum Laude PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Feb 2015 current Jan 2013 current Assistant Professor NWO Veni fellow - Water quality and global water stress Water Systems and Global Change group, Wageningen University Research scholar Water Futures and Solutions initiative Water Program, IIASA, Austria Oct 2014 Dec 2014 Niels Stensen fellow - Drought impacts on global electricity Terrestrial hydrology research group, Princeton University, USA May 2014 Oct 2014 Niels Stensen fellow Water resources and energy modelling Utrecht University, Utrecht Jul 2012 Jan 2015 Postdoctoral researcher water-energy nexus Earth System Sciences group, Wageningen University Jul 2008 Jul 2012 Apr 2007 Jul 2008 PhD candidate global water resources modelling under climate change Earth System Science and Climate Change and Adaptive Land and Water Management group, Wageningen University Hydrologist and researcher Deltares, Unit Subsurface and Groundwater systems, Utrecht 1

2 Jul 2006 Dec 2006 Trainee climate change impact on water quality and drinking water production KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, Netherlands Sep 2002 Dec 2006 Teaching assistant courses Global Change, Statistics and field surveys Utrecht University, Department Physical Geography, Netherlands RESEARCH In my research I focus on global change impacts and adaptation on global water stress and crosssectoral competition for surface waters availability and quality. This research is funded by an NWO Veni fellowship ( ). For this work I am developing a new global water stress modelling framework that includes a water quality dimension and adaptive solutions in its quantification. I currently have 32 published papers in international peer-reviewed journals (and 7 additional papers which are currently under review) with an average journal impact factor of more than 4.5. Top 3 publications: 1. van Vliet, M.T.H., Flörke, M., Wada, Y. (2017) Quality matters for water scarcity, Nature Geoscience, advance online publication, doi: /ngeo van Vliet, M.T.H., D. Wiberg, S. Leduc, K. Riahi (2016), Power-generation system vulnerability and adaptation to changes in climate and water resources, Nature Climate Change 6, , doi: /nclimate van Vliet, M.T.H., J.R. Yearsley, F. Ludwig, S. Vögele, D. P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2012) Vulnerability of U.S. and European electricity supply to climate change, Nature Climate Change, 2(9), , doi: /nclimate1546 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Guest-editor of the special issue on Water-energy food nexus in the journal Applied Energy (Elsevier, IF=5.6) ( ) Guest-editor of the special issue on Water Quality: a new challenge for global scale modelling in the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (Elsevier, IF=4.0) ( ) Coordinator of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) sector Energy (since 2014) Organizer and (co)convener of scientific workshops and sessions, e.g.: - OECD funded workshop Water Quality: a new challenge for global scale modelling, September 2017, Wageningen. Organized with N. Hofstra, C. Kroeze, M. Flörke - EGU conference 2017, session Assessment and interpretation of state and trends in water quality, April 2017, Vienna, Austria (lead M. Flörke) - EGU conference 2017, session Modelling climate impacts across sectors: projections and model intercomparison, April 2017, Vienna, Austria (lead J. Schewe) I have contributed to numerous of scientific workshops and international projects (e.g. (ISIpedia (since 2017), ISIMIP (since 2013), Water Futures and Solutions Initiative (since 2013), EU projects IMPACT2C ( ), ECLISE ( ), WATCH ( ), AQUATERRA ( )). Reviewer for several journals including: Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Water Resources Research, Journal of Climate, Environment International, Hydrology Earth System Sciences, Environmental Research Letters, Climatic Change and Earth System Dynamics 2

3 Communication and media-interviews based on my publications in Nature climate change (2012 and 2016) including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, USA Today, Spiegel Online, The Guardian Supervisor of 3 PhD students, 3 postdocs and 12 MSc students (Wageningen University) Lecturer courses in environmental sciences, guest-lecturer at Princeton University Course coordinator and developer MSc course Modelling Future Water Stress (Wageningen University) INTERNATIONAL VISITS Land Surface Hydrology Research group (Prof. dr. Bart Nijssen) (Jan 2015) University of Washington, Seattle, USA (short visit, NWO Veni project) Terrestrial Hydrology Research group (Prof. dr. Eric Wood) (Oct Dec 2014, Nov 2010) Princeton University, Princeton, USA (EU FP6 WATCH project) Land Surface Hydrology Research group (Prof. dr. Dennis Lettenmaier) (Nov Dec 2010, Jul Aug 2009 University of Washington, Seattle, USA (EU FP6 WATCH project) Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory (Prof. dr. Hayley Fowler) (Oct 2007) Newcastle University, United Kingdom (EU FP6 AQUATERRA project) Abisko Scientic Research Centre (Jun Aug 2005) Abisko, Sweden (EU FP5 BALANCE project) MSc study Effects of climate change on sub-arctic hydrology AQUISITION JPI-Climate ERA4CS Call ISIpedia project sectors energy and economic integration, with D. van Vuuren ( 200,000 for postdoc for ) WIMEK open call Water-Food-Energy nexus project ( 250,000 for PhD student for ) Resource Use Efficiency project with P. van Oel ( 65,000 for ) NWO Veni Grant for project Quality matters: Including water quality in global water stress projections ( 250,000) ( ) Niels Stensen Fellowship for project Global water constraints on future electricity production and future pathways for sustainable water and energy security ( 37,000 (netto) for research at IIASA and Princeton University ( ) EU FP7 ECLISE project with F. Ludwig and P. Kabat ( 420,000) ( ) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS NWO Veni Grant for proposal Quality matters: Including water quality in global water stress projections ( ) ( 250,000) Niels Stensen Fellowship for proposal Global water constraints on future electricity production and future pathways for sustainable water and energy security ( ) Best PhD thesis Award National Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) (2013) Best Young Delta Scientist Award, International Conference Deltas in Times of Climate Change, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2010) Best Oral Presentation Award, Conference of Netherlands Centre for River Studies, Enschede, The Netherlands (2006) 3

4 SHORT CV Dr. Michelle van Vliet is Assistant Professor at the Water Systems and Global Change group of Wageningen University and guest researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA) in Austria. In her research she focusses on modelling of global change impacts and adaptation on global water stress and cross-sectoral competition for surface waters availability and quality. She obtained her MSc in physical geography at Utrecht University, the Netherlands with a focus on hydrology and climate change. She graduated with distinction ( cum laude ) in 2006 and started working as a hydrologist at Deltares, the Netherlands. In 2008, she started her PhD study at Wageningen University focussing on the impacts of climate change on global river flows and water temperatures, and the consequences for cooling water use in the energy sector and freshwater ecosystems. As part of her PhD study, she visited University of Washington, USA (summer 2009 and autumn 2010) and collaborated with Prof. Dennis Lettenmaier and his group on the hydrological and water temperature modelling. Dr. van Vliet received her doctoral degree with distinction ( cum laude ) in Since January 2013, she started working as research scholar at IIASA in Austria. She received the Niels Stensen Fellowship in October 2013 and studied how present and future water constraints may impact global energy security. For this research she also spent two months at Princeton University, USA (autumn 2014) in the group of Prof. Eric Wood. Dr. van Vliet recently received a NWO Veni grant and started a new research project Quality matters: Including water quality in global water stress projections ( ). This project will mainly be performed at Wageningen University, the Netherlands in collaboration with IIASA and University of Washington. At both IIASA and Wageningen University she is involved in academic supervising of students. In her studies she cooperated and developed a network with researchers from different institutes around the world (e.g. USA, China, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, UK). PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 1. van Vliet, M.T.H. and J.J.G. Zwolsman (2008) Impact of summer droughts on the water quality of the Meuse River, Journal of Hydrology, 353(1-2), 1-17, doi: / j.jhydrol Brolsma, R.J., M.T.H. van Vliet, and M.F.P. Bierkens (2010) Climate change impact on a groundwater-influenced hillslope ecosystem, Water Resources Research, 46, W11503, doi: /2009wr van Vliet, M.T.H., S. Blenkinsop, A. Burton, C. Harpham, H.P. Broers, and H.J. Fowler (2011) A multi-model ensemble of downscaled spatial climate change scenarios for the Dommel catchment, western Europe, Climatic Change, 111(2), , doi: /s Visser, A., J. Kroes, M.T.H. van Vliet, S. Blenkinsop, H.J. Fowler, and H.P. Broers (2011) Climate change impacts on the leaching of a heavy metal contamination in a small lowland catchment, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 127(1-4), 47-64, doi: /j.jconhyd van Vliet, M.T.H., F. Ludwig, J.J.G. Zwolsman, G.P. Weedon, and P. Kabat (2011) Global river temperatures and sensitivity to atmospheric warming and changes in river flow, Water Resources Research, 47, W02544, doi: /2010wr van Beek, L.P.H., T. Eikelboom, M.T.H. van Vliet, and M.F.P. Bierkens (2012) A physically based model of global freshwater surface temperature, Water Resources Research, 48, W09530, doi: /2012wr van Vliet, M.T.H., J.R. Yearsley, F. Ludwig, S. Vögele, D. P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2012) Vulnerability of U.S. and European electricity supply to climate change, Nature Climate Change, 2(9), , doi: /nclimate1546 4

5 8. van Vliet, M.T.H., J.R. Yearsley, W.H.P. Franssen, F. Ludwig, I. Haddeland, D.P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2012) Coupled daily streamflow and water temperature modelling in large river basins, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, , doi: /hess Siderius, C., H. Biemans, A. Wiltshire, S. Rao, W.H.P. Franssen, P. Kumar, A. K. Gosain, M.T.H. van Vliet, D. Collins (2013), Snowmelt contributions to discharge of the Ganges, Science of the Total Environment. doi: /j.scitotenv Bölcher, T., E. van Slobbe, M.T.H. van Vliet, S. Werners (2013) Adaptive turning points in river restoration? The Rhine salmon case, Sustainability, 5, , doi: /su van Vliet, M.T.H., W.H.P. Franssen, J.R. Yearsley, F. Ludwig, I. Haddeland, D.P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2013) Global river discharge and water temperature under climate change, Global Environmental Change, 23, , doi: /j.gloenvcha van Vliet, M.T.H., F. Ludwig and P. Kabat (2013), Global Streamflow and Thermal Habitats of Freshwater Fishes under Climate Change, Climatic Change, 121, , doi: /s van Vliet, M.T.H., S. Vögele, and D. Rübbelke (2013) Water constraints on European power supply under climate change: impacts on electricity prices, Environmental Research Letters, 8, , doi: / /8/3/ Clark, E.A., J. Sheffield, M.T.H. van Vliet, B. Nijssen, D.P. Lettenmaier (2015) Continental Runoff into the Oceans ( ). Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16, , /jhm-d van Vliet, M.T.H., C. Donnelly, L. Strömbäck, R. Capell, F. Ludwig (2015) European scale climate information services for water use sectors. Journal of Hydrology, 528, , doi: /j.jhydrol van Slobbe, E., S. Werners, M. Riquelme-Solar, T. Bölscher, M.T.H. van Vliet (2016) The future of the Rhine: stranded ships and no more salmon? Regional Environ Change, 1-11, /s z 17. Wada, Y., M. Flörke, N. Hanasaki, S. Eisner, G. Fischer, S. Tramberend, Y. Satoh, M.T.H. van Vliet, P. Yillia, C. Ringler, P. Burek, D. Wiberg (2016) Modeling global water use for the 21st century: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches. Geoscientific Model Development 9, , doi: /gmd Fricko, O., S.C. Parkinson, N. Johnson, M. Strubegger, M.T.H. van Vliet, K. Riahi (2016), Energy sector water use implications of a 2 C climate policy, Environmental Research Letters 11, , doi: / /11/3/ van Vliet, M.T.H., D. Wiberg, S. Leduc, K. Riahi (2016), Power-generation system vulnerability and adaptation to changes in climate and water resources, Nature Climate Change 6, , doi: /nclimate2903 i * 20. Shadkam, S., F. Ludwig, M.T.H. van Vliet, A. Pastor, P. Kabat (2016) Preserving the World Second Largest Hypersaline Lake under Future Irrigation and Climate Change, Science of the Total Environment 559, , doi: /j.scitotenv van Vliet, M.T.H., L.P.H. van Beek, M. Flörke, Y. Wada, S. Eisner, M.F.P. Bierkens (2016) Multi-model assessment of global hydropower and cooling water discharge potential under climate change, Global Environmental Change, doi: /j.gloenvcha Hoang, L.P., H. Lauri, M. Kummu, J. Koponen, M.T.H. van Vliet, I. Supit, R. Leemans, P. Kabat, F. Ludwig (2016) Mekong River flow and hydrological extremes under climate change, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20, , doi: /hess

6 23. Parkinson, S.C., N. Johnson, N.D. Rao, B. Jones, M.T.H. van Vliet, O. Fricko, K. Riahi, M. Flörke, N. Djilali (2016), Climate and human development impacts on municipal water demand: A spatially-explicit global modeling framework, Environmental Modelling & Software, 85, , Raptis, C.E., M.T.H. van Vliet, S. Pfister (2016), Global thermal pollution of rivers from thermoelectric power plants, Environmental Research Letters, 11, , doi: / /11/10/ ii * 25. van Vliet, M.T.H., J. Sheffield, D. Wiberg, E.F. Wood (2016) Impacts of recent drought and warm years on water resources and electricity supply worldwide, Environmental Research Letters, 11(12): , doi: / /11/12/ Kroeze, C., S. Gabbert, N. Hofstra, A. A. Koelmans, A. Li, A. Löhr, F. Ludwig, M. Strokal, C. Verburg, L. Vermeulen, M. T. H. van Vliet, W. de Vries, M. Wang, and J. van Wijnen (2016), Global modelling of surface water quality: a multi-pollutant approach, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 23, Frieler, K., R. Betts, E. Burke, P. Ciais, S. Denvil, D. Deryng, K. Ebi, T. Eddy, K. Emanuel, J. Elliott, E. Galbraith, S. N. Gosling, K. Halladay, F. Hattermann, T. Hickler, J. Hinkel, V. Huber, C. Jones, V. Krysanova, S. Lange, H. K. Lotze, H. Lotze-Campen, M. Mengel, I. Mouratiadou, H. Müller Schmied, S. Ostberg, F. Piontek, A. Popp, C. P. O. Reyer, J. Schewe, M. Stevanovic, T. Suzuki, K. Thonicke, H. Tian, D. P. Tittensor, R. Vautard, M.T.H. van Vliet, L. Warszawski, and F. Zhao (2016), Assessing the impacts of 1.5 C global warming simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b), Geosci. Model Dev., 2016, doi: /gmd Bogmans, C.W.J., G.P.J. Dijkema, M.T.H. van Vliet (2017), Adaptation of Thermal Power Plants: the (Ir)relevance of Climate (Change) Information at Energy Economics Zhang, X., J. Liu, Y. Tang, X. Zhao, H. Yang, P. W. Gerbens-Leenes, M.T.H. van Vliet, J. Yan (2017), China s coal-fired power plants impose pressure on water resources, Journal of Cleaner Production. 161, Yearsley, J. R., M.T.H. van Vliet, D. P. Lettenmaier, F. Ludwig, and S. Vo gele (2017), Comments on Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants, Environmental Science & Technology 51 (9), , DOI: /acs.est.7b Behrens, P., M.T.H. van Vliet, T. Nanninga, B. Walsh, J.F.D. Rodrigues (2017) Climate change and the vulnerability of electricity generation to water stress in the European Union. nature energy 2, doi: /nenergy van Vliet, M.T.H., Flörke, M., Wada, Y. (2017) Quality matters for water scarcity, nature geoscience, advance online publication, doi: /ngeo3047 i * also highlighted in Nature and Nature Energy ii also highlighted in Nature Short CV and list of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (version ) 6