What are the goals of the Local Chapter?

The purpose of an EAGE local chapter is to promote Geoscience and Engineering and overall EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) activities. This includes lectures, events/meetings, professional technical training, etc. and providing updates to its members in the area where it has been established. A local chapter facilitates connections within the multicultural and multidisciplinary geoscience network (companies, universities, other societies, etc.) by promoting activities that extend beyond a single discipline. Moreover, it fosters young talent, innovation and the recognition of the geoscientific profession in the community at large. A local chapter promotes membership of the EAGE and acts in conformity with the Constitution and ByLaws of EAGE.

Board Members

Florencia Balestrini Florencia Balestrini M.Sc.
President and WGE coordinator

Florencia Balestrini is a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics group at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft. Her research focuses on seismic interferometric applications for different processing purposes, mainly oriented to hard-rock near-mine data applications. In 2017, she obtained her MSc. in Geophysics from National University of La Plata. Florencia has been the president of the chapter since December 2022 and continues as WGE coordinator in the Netherlands.

Joeri Brackenhoff Dr. Joeri Brackenhoff
Vice-President and YP coordinator

Joeri Brackenhoff is a research Geophysicist with Quantairra Research and Development B.V. in the Netherlands, specializing in wavefield redatuming. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology in 2021, where he was active as Ph.D. representative and president of the Geophysics student chapter. After his Ph.D., he spent two years in Zürich at the ETH University as a postdoctoral researcher before moving back to the Netherlands and joining Quantairra. His research interests includes wavefield redatuming for geophysical and medical applications and he remains active in various professional organizations.

Veerle Steenhuijsen

Eline Leentvaar M.Sc.
Media officer and Secretary

I am a geophysicist (MSc) currently working at Deltares. I worked with GPR during my internship and with Helmholtz-based wave solvers in my MSc thesis. I work and worked on various projects related to geophysics (GPR, MASW, ERT, ...) and software development. I am particularly interested in seismic- and wave theory applications, applied geophysics and Python programming. Besides geophysics, I enjoy doing various other sports such as handbal, running, mountain biking and swimming.

Evert Slob Prof. Evert Slob
Membership officer

Evert Slob is a full professor in geophysical electromagnetic methods at Delft University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. cum laude from Delft University of Technology in 1994 and has been active as a chair in the executive committee of the IDEA League. He has acted as a reviewer for many international scientific journals and was editor in chief of the Geophysics journal from 2013 to 2015.

Dong Zhang Dr. Dong Zhang
Event assistant

Dong Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the computational imaging group of TU Delft. He obtained his PhD degree from Delft University of Technology in October of 2022. His research interests include seismic surface-related multiple estimation and imaging, seismic signal processing and inversion, deep learning-related seismic applications. He is a member of EAGE and SEG.

Johno van IJsseldijk Johno van IJsseldijk M.Sc.
Student coordinator

My name is Johno van IJsseldijk. I was born 27 years ago in sunny Limburg, and am currently in the final year of my PhD at TU Delft, working with Kees Wapenaar on time-lapse applications with the Marchenko method. In my free time I enjoy squash, bouldering and chess.

Maaike Blauw Maaike Blauw M.Sc.
Event manager

My name is Maaike Blauw, I am head of the department Applied Geology and Geophysics at Deltares. I have studied Earth Sciences/ Geology at Utrecht University. I am 40 years old, and I live in Odijk with my husband and 2 sons (6 and 7).

Diego Rovetta Dr. Diego Rovetta
Past President and Advisor

Diego Rovetta is a research geophysicist working for Aramco on multi-geophysics integration and joint inversion. He previously worked as a researcher for Politecnico di Milano, collaborating with different companies (eni, Saipem, Schlumberger, etc.), and as a geophysicist at the WesternGeco Center of Excellence for electromagnetics. In 2002, he received his MSc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, studying non-linear inverse problem applications using Simulated Annealing. In 2006, he obtained his Ph.D. from the same institute in Information Engineering focusing on geophysical inverse problems. Diego served as the president of the EAGE local chapter in the Netherlands until December 2022.

Rita Streich Dr. Rita Streich
Past Vice-President and Advisor

Rita Streich is a senior non-seismic Geophysicist at Shell Global Solutions International, with more than 15 years of experience in electromagnetic geophysics research and deployment, currently providing global technology support for electromagnetics and multi-physics in traditional and emerging application areas. She has previously worked for GFZ Potsdam (Germany) and SINTEF Petroleum Research (Norway). She received a PhD on ground-penetrating radar imaging from ETH Zurich (2006) and an MSc in Geophysics from Potsdam University (2003).