Peter van Thienen PhD

Peter van Thienen is principal scientist in the Hydroinformatics team. From his background as a quantitative scientist, Peter, together with a number of colleagues, deals with drinking water systems from a quantitative and modelling perspective. Key words here are mathematical-physical models and optimisation. The starting point is to transform a simple concept into a powerful tool. Some examples are the analysis of volume flow data for network understanding and leak detection (a.o. the development of the CFPD method, integrated in the Callisto tool), numerical optimisation of the design of measuring and drinking water networks (development of the Contamination Source Toolkit and the Gondwana platform), the initiation of the development of an inspection robot for drinking water pipes (Ariel, continued in the AIR project), and probabilistic simulation of drinking water networks. Sustainability has become an important theme in his written work and activities at KWR. Peter is also coordinator of the BTO research theme hydroinformatics and project leader or quality controller of several projects in this field.