Wilco Hazeleger

Wilco Hazeleger is Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Professor of Climate System Science at Utrecht University. Hazeleger studied meteorology at Wageningen University and Reading University and obtained his PhD in 1999 in physical oceanography from Utrecht University. After his PhD he worked at the Columbia University in New York (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) and at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) on climate dynamics, climate scenarios and the development of global Earth system models, EC-Earth in particular. He was also professor in Climate Dynamics at Wageningen University. He served as Director of the Netherlands eScience Center from 2014 until mid-2019. Hazeleger has (co)-authored over 100 refereed publications and has served on many committees on climate research, meteorology, data science and open science.


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