Curriculum Vitae including publication list - Geo-Engineering - TU Delft

Curriculum Vitae
Name: Timo Jaakko Heimovaara
Languages: Dutch and English
email: T.J.Heimovaara@TUDelft.nl
Fields of specialization
Soil & groundwater remediation, Soil & Groundwater management plans, Soil & Groundwater policy
development, Landfill processes, General management, Project management, Data interpretation and
management, In-situ (sensor) technology, Soil- and Geochemistry, Soil physics, Numerical modelling
Experience
June 2007 – Now
Delft University of Technology
Associate professor Geo-Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering and
Geo-sciences
2005 – June 2007 Groundwater Technology B.V.
Product group manager / Deputy director
2001 - 2005 Royal Haskoning
Senior consultant within the Environmental Division
1996 - 2001 IWACO consultancy for water and environment (merged in to Royal
Haskoning in 2001).
Environmental consultant
1993 - now Reviewer for a number of "peer reviewed" papers (a.o. Water Resources
Research, Soil Science Society of America Journal, Advances in Water
Resources, Vadose Zone Journal, Journal of Hydrology)
Received the Editors’ citation for excellence in manuscript review of the
SSSAJ in 1994
2000 – now The Centre for Soil Quality Management and Knowledge Transfer (SKB)
Member of the Knowledge Integration Team
2006 – 2007 University of Utrecht
"Guest" Associate Professor
1999 - 2007 NWO / TRIAS
Member of the program committee
2004 TU-Delft (CiTG)
Member of the working group Geo-Engineering for assessing the feasibility of
a MSc Geo-Engineering.
2001-2005 Univeristy of Amsterdam (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem dynamics,
IBED)
Guest researcher
1998 – 2000 Water Resources Research
Associate Editor
1993 – 1996 University of Amsterdam / Laboratory of Phyiscal Geography
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Post-Doc / Assistant professor Soil chemistry and soil physics
1988-1993 University of Amsterdam / Laboratory of Physical Geography
PhD research (OIO) in Soil Chemistry and Soil Physics
Graduated in 1993 on the thesis: “Time Domain Reflectometry in Soil
Science; Theoretical backgrounds, measurements and models”
1985-1987 Pink Elephant Project Engineering
Part time mainframe computer operator
Networks
2000 – now NICOLE (The Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe,
www.nicole.org)
2000 – now Policy development in the field of soil remedation and soil protection in The
Netherlands
1999 – now Stichting Kennisoverdracht en kennisontwikkeling Bodem (SKB,
www.skbodem.nl)
Member PhD – committee
Hubert de Jonge, 1996, University of Amsterdam, “Sorption, bioavailability and
mineralization of hydrocarbons in contaminated soils”
Albrecht Weerts, 2000, University of Amsterdam, “Transport properties of
unsaturated sandy soils. Analogies, measurement and models”
Buu-Long Nguyen, TU Delft, “Dielectric meausrements for saturation determination”
Sander Huisman, 2002, University of Amsterdam, “Measuring soil water content with
time domain reflectometry and ground-penetrating radar”
Jasper Vrugt, 2005, University of Amsterdam, “Towards improved treatment of
parameter uncertainty in hydrologic modeling”
Phil Ham 2006, University of Utrecht, “Dispersion Controlled Natural Attenuation –
The role of conservative plume characteristics in modeling reactive mixing
processes”
Monica Stachowicz, 2007, Wageningen University & Research Center,
Solubility/mobility of arsenic under changing redox conditions as affected by
multicomponent transport
Education
2000-2003 IWACO B.V. / Royal Haskoning
Internal course Management Development given by the Institute for Career
Development
1988-1993 University of Amsterdam
PhD Soil Chemistry / Soil Physics (see experience)
1982-1988 Wageningen Agricultural University
Soil Chemistry
Majors:
- Soil Chemistry
- Mathematics
Minors:
soil physics,inorganic chemistry, colloidal chemistry
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1987 United States Salinity Laboratory, ARS-USDA, Riverside California
Trainee within the Soil Physics group under supervision of Rien van
Genuchten
1985 VAPO O.Y., Jyväskylä Finland
Trainee within the Research and Development Department.
Publications
Journals
Heimovaara T.J., Huisman, J.A., Vrugt, J.A., Bouten W., 2004, Obtaining the spatial distribution of
water content along a TDR probe using the SCEM-UA Bayesian inverse modeling scheme, Vadose
Zone Journal, 3:1128–1145.
Huisman, J.A., Weerts, A.H., Heimovaara, T.J., Bouten W., 2002, Comparison of travel time analysis
and inverse modeling for soil water content determination with time domain reflectometry, Water
Resources Research, 38, no. 6, 1077, doi:10.1029/2001WR000259.
Jonge, Hubert de; Heimovaara, Timo J; Verstraten, J M. 1999, Naphthalene Sorption to organic soil
materials studied with continuous stirred flow experiments. Soil Science Society of America
Journal 63 297-306.
Winter E.J.G. de, W.K.P. van Loon, E. Esveld and T.J. Heimovaara, 1996 Dielectric Spectroscopy by
inverse modelling of Time Domain Reflectometry Wave Forms, J. of Food Eng. 30. 351-362.
Heimovaara, T.J., E.J.G. De Winter, W.K.P. Van Loon and D.C. Esveld, 1996, Frequency dependent
dielectric permittivity 0 to 1 GHz: Time Domain Reflectometry measurements compared with
Frequency Domain Network Analyser measurements. Water Resources Research, 32, 3603-3610.
Doelman, P., S. Boekhold, Heimovaara T.J., 1996, In-situ bodemverontreiniging wekt verwachtingen,
Bodem.
Heimovaara, T.J., A.G. Focke, W. Bouten en J.M. Verstraten, 1995, Assessing temporal variation in
the soil water composition with Time Domain Reflectometry. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 59: 689-698.
Schaap, M.G., T. Heimovaara and L. De Lange, 1995, TDR calibration of organic forest floor media.
Soil Technology 11, 205.
Heimovaara, T.J., 1994, Frequency domain analysis of time domain reflectometry waveforms 1.
Measurement of the complex dielectric permitivity of soils, Water Resour. Res. 30: 189-199.
Heimovaara, T.J., W. Bouten en J.M. Verstraten, 1994, Frequency domain analysis of time domain
reflectometry waveforms 2. A four-component complex dielectric mixing model for soils. Water
Resour. Res. 30: 201-209.
Heimovaara, T.J. , 1993, Design of triple-wire time domain reflectometry probes in practice and
theory. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 57: 1410-1417.
Heimovaara T.J., 1993, Time domain reflectometry in soil science: Theoretical backgrounds,
measurements and models. PhD-Thesis, University of Amsterdam.
Heimovaara, T.J., J.I. Freijer en W. Bouten , 1993, The application of TDR in laboratory column
experiments. Soil Technology 6: 261-272.
Bouten, W., T.J. Heimovaara en A. Tiktak, 1992, Spatial patterns of soil water dynamics in a Douglas
fir stand. Water Resour. Res. 12: 3227-3233.
Heimovaara, T.J., 1992, Comments on time domain reflectometry measurements of water content and
electrical condictivity of layered soil columns. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 56: 1657-1658.
Heimovaara, T.J. en W. Bouten, 1990, A computer-controlled 36-channel time domain reflectometry
system for monitoring soil water contents. Water Resour. Res. 26: 2311-2316.
Book chapter
Van den Brink, C., T. Heimovaara & P.J.C. Marinussen, 2000. Conditions for the use of innovative
remediation techniques set by new policy. In: Remediation engineering of contaminated soils (Eds.
D.L. Wise, D.J. Trantalo, E.J. Cichon, H.I. Inyang and U. Schottmeister), p. 173-181. Marcel
Dekker, Inc. New York.
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Keynote Lectures
Heimovaara T.J., 2001, Frequency domain modelling of TDR waveforms in order to obtain frequency
dependant dielectric properties of soil samples: A theoretical approach. TDR 2001, Second
international symposium and Workshop on Time Domain Reflectometry for innovative
Geotechnical Application.
http://www.iti.northwestern.edu/tdr/tdr2001/proceedings/final/TDR2001.pdf
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