Roelof Kooijman is a PhD candidate at the department of Multi-Actor Systems in the policy analysis section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and management. He holds a master’s degree in Engineering and Policy Analysis (awarded cum laude). During his thesis, he developed an agent-based model to examine how the distinct phases of evacuation decision-making behaviour for hurricanes are influenced by different warning communication strategies. Additionally, he evaluated the role of place attachment of evacuation destinations on evacuation intention. After his master’s he worked at the Utrecht University for a year to work on a conceptual framework for comparing, reusing and designing exposure assessment models in health research.  

During his PhD, he will investigate how mortgage portfolios can be made more resilient to physical climate risk without imposing additional climate burdens on households, in collaboration with ING. The climate risk of focus will be flooding and droughts. The goal is to simulate both flood and drought risks for lenders and households to evaluate financial and household adaption strategies to safeguard both the mortgage portfolios of banks and financial stability of vulnerable households.  

Being born in Harderwijk, Roelof enjoys being around and sometimes on the water. Moreover, he likes being a competitive player in board and videogames or spending time with friends and family.