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Anne van Loon
Anne van Loon is a Dutch hydrologist, with research expertise in Drought (risk) analysis and management. She is currently an Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she is part of the Water & Climate Risk group at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM).

Her research is centered around the interactions between water, people and the environment, with a particular focus on hydrological extremes (droughts and floods). Van Loon uses interdisciplinary methods to study hydrological processes and their interaction with human activities and hydroclimatic changes.

Education
Van Loon got her MSc in Hydrology and Water Quality, at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in 2006 and she received her PhD from the same university in 2013, with her thesis, titled ''On the propagation of drought. How climate and catchment characteristics influence hydrological drought development and recovery''.

She is currently the chair of the working group Drought in the Anthropocene within the Panta Rhei initiative of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.

Research and career
Van Loon undertook a postdoc in WUR after receiving a Rubicon grant in 2014. Following this postdoc, she became a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the school of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham from 2014 to 2020 and was programme director for the MSc River Environments and their management. During this time, she worked on developing water level measuring methods in mangrove restoration projects in South East Asia.

Van Loon is a principal investigator for the Creative Drought project (funded by the NERC, ESRC and AHRC) which aims to increase drought resilience by using local knowledge and scientific methods with an interdisciplinary approach.

She is also a co-investigator of the Groundwater drought initiative (GDI) which is led by the NERC British Geological Survey.

Van Loon has been an editor on several scientific journals and she is currently the Associate Editor for the scientific journal Water and Human Systems.

Awards and honors
Van Loon received a Storm-van der Chijs Stipend for being the most talented female PhD researcher of Wageningen University in 2013.

Van Loon was awarded the Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in 2017. The motivation for this award was due to her leading role in drought research within hydrological sciences, exploring the feedbacks between human and climate induced drought and their impacts on water availability.

In 2020, she was awarded an European Research Council (ERC) grant for the PerfectSTORM project ('STOrylines of futuRe extreMes').