Alexander Bakker

Alexander Bakker is a Senior Advisor in Risk-Based Asset Management at Rijkswaterstaat, having held this position since September 2016. Previously, Bakker served as Program Manager at Infraquest from January 2017 to December 2021, where a partnership facilitated mission-oriented research regarding infrastructure. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State University from December 2014 to August 2016, Bakker’s research focused on uncertainty quantification in Earth System Modeling. Prior experience includes a PhD role at KNMI (October 2006 - November 2014) working on climate information for impact assessment and a position as a Researcher in Applied Statistics at Witteveen+Bos (November 2004 - October 2006). Academic qualifications include a PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Master's degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Water Resources Management from Delft University of Technology.