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Marleen de Ruiter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Water and Climate Risk at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on improving the modeling of multi-hazard risk, multi-hazard risk early warning systems, disaster risk reduction, and the temporal dynamics of disaster vulnerability.
She is an expert on consecutive disasters and systemic risk, currently serving as the co-chair of the RiskKAN network and co-leading the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) cluster on Natural Hazards & Society. In 2024, she was honored with the EGU Natural Hazards Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist award.
Research and projects
Her research focuses on the intersection of multi-hazard modeling, early warning systems, and disaster risk reduction. Her current research focuses on:
- Consecutive Disasters: As an NWO Veni Laureate (2024–2029), she leads a project investigating global consecutive disasters followed by water-borne disease outbreaks using Dynamic Bayesian Networks.
- Multi-Hazard Risk: She recently contributed to the development of a multi-hazard concept report and led a Special Issue in NHESS on methodological advances in the field.
- Current Projects: She is a member of the TOGETHER project and co-leads the ANTICIPATE CostAction Working Group on multi-hazard early warning products. She previously managed the EU H2020 project MYRIAD-EU.
- Serious Gaming: She developed the Breaking the Silos game to help stakeholders understand multi-hazard management, which is now available to play online.
Education, teaching and supervision
Marleen is the Programme Coordinator for the MSc Earth Sciences and its specialization in Global Environmental Change & Policy (GECP) at VU Amsterdam. Her teaching and supervision activities include:
- Course Coordination: Methods of Global Environmental Change (AM_1236).
- Student Supervision: She supervises several BSc, MSc, and PhD students on topics related to multi-hazard risk and disaster resilience.
- Ambassador for the Burning Lowlands VU Dream Team, leading a transdisciplinary student team on wildfire risk.
- Co-developer of the Climate Econometrics master specialization.
Editorial roles
- Editor: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction(IJDRR).
- Associate Editor: Earth’s Future.
- Guest Editor: Currently leading a new Special Issue at NHESS on the challenges of the complex interactions between natural hazards, health systems, disease outbreaks, and societal health.
Awards
- EGU Natural Hazards Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist (2024)
- Wiley’s Earth’s Future Most Cited Paper Award
- American Geosciences Union (AGU) Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Expertise
Consecutive disasters, multi-hazard risk, risk and vulnerability assessments, (asynergies of) DRR measures, and post-disaster community recovery.
Education
2020: PhD, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2011: MSc Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada.
2009: BSc Earth and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2006: Propedeutics Econometrics and Operational Research Management, University of Amsterdam.
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Keywords
- GE Environmental Sciences
- G Geography (General)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 13 Climate Action
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Why we can no longer ignore consecutive disasters
de Ruiter, M. C., Couasnon, A., van den Homberg, M. J. C., Daniell, J. E., Gill, J. C. & Ward, P. J., Mar 2020, In: Earth's Future. 8, 3, p. 1-19 19 p., e2019EF001425.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
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The Asynergies of Structural Disaster Risk Reduction Measures: Comparing Floods and Earthquakes
de Ruiter, M., de Bruijn, J., Englhardt, J., Daniell, J. E., de Moel, H. & Ward, P., Jan 2021, In: Earth's Future. 9, 1, p. 1-21 21 p., e2020EF001531.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale
Ward, P. J., Blauhut, V., Bloemendaal, N., Daniell, E. J., De Ruiter, C. M., Duncan, J. M., Emberson, R., Jenkins, F. S., Kirschbaum, D., Kunz, M., Mohr, S., Muis, S., Riddell, A. G., Schäfer, A., Stanley, T., Veldkamp, I. E. T. & Winsemius, C. H., 2020, In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 20, 4, p. 1069-1096 28 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on multi-risk anticipatory action
de Boer, T. A., Matanó, A., Easton-Calabria, E., Alcayna, T., Budimir, M., de Ruiter, M. C., Ewbank, M., Fawwad, M., Gonzalez, D., Jaime, C., Jones, L., Kristensen, K., Lazarus, B., Mena, R., Parkinson, E., Trogrlić, R. Š., Simons, B., Tiggeloven, T., van den Homberg, M. J. C. & van Westen, C. J. & 4 others, , 17 Jul 2026, In: iScience. 29, 7, p. 1-13 13 p., 115618.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
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Planning ahead: Optimizing anticipatory action via mixed integer programming and open-source dashboards to mitigate climate risk
De Clercq, D., Balcik, B., de Ruiter, M., Deshmukh, S. S., van den Homberg, M. & Mahdi, A., Sept 2026, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 143, p. 1-22 22 p., 106249.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Courses
Projects
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FireScapes: Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of wildfire risk mitigation in the Dutch landscape
Egberts, L. (Project Researcher), de Hoop, E. (Project Researcher), Brouwers, H. (Project Researcher), de Ruiter, M. (Project Researcher), Veraverbeke, S. (Project Researcher) & van Gerrevink, M. J. (Project Researcher)
1/09/21 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
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Study and Adaptation Modelling Ares
de Ruiter, M. (Principal Investigator), Koetse, M. (Project Researcher), Ebrey, R. (Project Researcher), Botzen, W. (Project Researcher), de Ruiter, M. (Project Researcher) & Wens, M. (Project Researcher)
10/09/19 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
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Palmawat contract 2
Aerts, J. (Principal Investigator), de Ruiter, M. (Project Researcher), de Moel, H. (Project Researcher), Ton, M. (Project Researcher), Dullaart, J. (Project Researcher), Wens, M. (Project Researcher), Busker, T. (Project Researcher), van Schendel, M. (Project Researcher), Leijnse, T. (Project Researcher) & Ingels, M. (Project Researcher)
1/01/18 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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palmawat
Aerts, J. (Principal Investigator), de Ruiter, M. (Project Researcher), Wens, M. (Project Researcher), de Moel, H. (Project Researcher), Hagedoorn, L. (Project Researcher), Tierolf, L. (Project Researcher), Busker, T. (Project Researcher) & Sabino Siemons, A.-S. (Project Researcher)
1/06/16 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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The role of human behavior in global flood risk assessment models
Jongman, B. (Project Researcher), de Bruijn, J. (Project Researcher), Muis, S. (Project Researcher), de Ruiter, M. (Project Researcher), Aerts, J. (Principal Investigator), de Ruig, L. (Project Researcher), Bloemendaal, N. (Project Researcher), Tesselaar, M. (Project Researcher), Wens, M. (Project Researcher), Haer, T. (Project Researcher), Busker, T. (Project Researcher), Duijndam, S. (Project Researcher), Ton, M. (Project Researcher) & Tierolf, L. (Project Researcher)
1/11/14 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
Datasets
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Administrative level 2 areas exposed to earthquakes (MMI ≥ VIII) and tropical cyclones between 1960 and 2016
Couasnon, A. (Contributor) & De Ruiter, M. C. (Contributor), Unknown, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.34894/f7di2z, https://doi.org/10.34894%2Ff7di2z
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts
Kreibich, H. (Creator), Schröter, K. (Creator), Di Baldassarre, G. (Creator), Van Loon, A. (Creator), Mazzoleni, M. (Creator), Abeshu, G. W. (Creator), Agafonova, S. (Creator), AghaKouchak, A. (Creator), Aksoy, H. (Creator), Alvarez-Garreton, C. (Creator), Aznar, B. (Creator), Balkhi, L. (Creator), Barendrecht, M. H. (Creator), Biancamaria, S. (Creator), Bos-Burgering, L. (Creator), Bradley, C. (Creator), Budiyono, Y. (Creator), Buytaert, W. (Creator), Capewell, L. (Creator), Carlson, H. (Creator), Cavus, Y. (Creator), Couasnon, A. (Creator), Coxon, G. (Creator), Daliakopoulos, I. (Creator), de Ruiter, M. C. (Creator), Delus, C. (Creator), Erfurt, M. (Creator), Esposito, G. (Creator), François, D. (Creator), Frappart, F. (Creator), Freer, J. (Creator), Frolova, N. (Creator), Gain, A. K. (Creator), Grillakis, M. (Creator), Grima, J. (Creator), Guzmán, D. A. (Creator), Huning, L. S. (Creator), Ionita, M. (Creator), Kharlamov, M. (Creator), Khoi, D. N. (Creator), Kieboom, N. (Creator), Kireeva, M. (Creator), Koutroulis, A. (Creator), Lavado-Casimiro, W. (Creator), Li, H. (Creator), LLasat, M. C. (Creator), Macdonald, D. (Creator), Mård, J. (Creator), Mathew-Richards, H. (Creator), McKenzie, A. (Creator), Mejia, A. (Creator), Mendiondo, E. M. (Creator), Mens, M. (Creator), Mobini, S. (Creator), Mohor, G. S. (Creator), Nagavciuc, V. (Creator), Ngo-Duc, T. (Creator), Nguyen, H. T. T. (Creator), Nhi, P. T. T. (Creator), Petrucci, O. (Creator), Quan, N. H. (Creator), Quintana-Seguí, P. (Creator), Razavi, S. (Creator), Ridolfi, E. (Creator), Riegel, J. (Creator), Sadik, M. S. (Creator), Sairam, N. (Creator), Savelli, E. (Creator), Sazonov, A. (Creator), Sharma, S. (Creator), Sörensen, J. (Creator), Souza, F. A. A. (Creator), Stahl, K. (Creator), Steinhausen, M. (Creator), Stoelzle, M. (Creator), Szalińska, W. (Creator), Tang, Q. (Creator), Tian, F. (Creator), Tokarczyk, T. (Creator), Tovar, C. (Creator), Tran, T. V. T. (Creator), van Huijgevoort, M. H. J. (Creator), van Vliet, M. T. H. (Creator), Vorogushyn, S. (Creator), Wagener, T. (Creator), Wang, Y. (Creator), Wendt, D. E. (Creator), Wickham, E. (Creator), Yang, L. (Creator), Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (Creator), Ward, P. J. (Creator) & Kreibich, H. (Contributor), GFZ Data Services, 2022
DOI: 10.5880/gfz.4.4.2022.002, https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/showshort.php%3Fid=de13a641-cd4d-11ec-9531-ca1f3ed77ce8
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Metadata record for: A global database of historic and real-time flood events based on social media
de Bruijn, J. A. (Contributor), de Moel, H. (Contributor), Jongman, B. (Contributor), de Ruiter, M. C. (Contributor), Wagemaker, J. (Contributor) & Aerts, J. C. J. H. (Contributor), Figshare, 2020
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11294915, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/Metadata_record_for_A_global_database_of_historic_and_real-time_flood_events_based_on_social_media/11294915
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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VulneraCity - The urban vulnerability drivers database
Stolte, T. (Creator), Koks, E. (Supervisor), de Moel, H. (Supervisor), Reimann, L. (Contributor), van Vliet, J. (Contributor), de Ruiter, M. (Contributor) & Ward, P. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 25 Aug 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8282814, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8282814
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