Prof. Dr. Johan Alexander Huisman

Sander Huisman received a M.Sc. in Physical Geography (1997) and a Ph.D. from the faculty of Science (2002) of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since 2005, he is a senior researcher at the Agrosphere institute (IBG 3) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. He also is appointed as a professor for Vadose Zone Hydrogeophysics at the University of Stuttgart since 2012, where he teaches classes on hydrogeophysical methods for vadose zone and contaminated site characterization. His primary research interests include the use of geophysical data to improve hydrological models, spectral induced polarization, electrical impedance tomography, self-potential monitoring, soil moisture sensors, and modeling of vadose zone hydrological and biogeochemical processes.