Professor Dr. Juliette Arevalo

Biography

Juliette Cortes Arevalo is a Colombian Civil Engineer, graduating in 2005, and holds a Dutch Master's in Hydroinformatics from IHE-Delft, obtained in 2011. She completed her PhD in 2016 at TU Delft, focusing on participatory inspection of hydraulic structures for proactive maintenance, developed in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council, Institute Geo-hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI) in Padua. Before her position at TU Delft, she worked for six years as a researcher at the University of Twente and lectured for a year at IHE-Delft. In 2021, she became an Assistant Professor at TU Delft. Her research and teaching concentrate on collaborative modeling and integrated management of climate-related hazards across various environments in Europe and abroad, aiming to enhance the resilience of urban, rural, mountain, and coastal areas. Juliette utilizes participatory methods to enrich problem definitions and modeling approaches, integrating multi-criteria assessment methods with behavioral theories, visual storytelling, and citizen science. She also supports knowledge exchange and peer learning among academic, government, and societal organizations while co-designing online GIS-based tools for multi-hazard collaborative research projects such as Diane-CM, CHANGES, RiverCare, All-Risk, and SHELTER. Furthermore, she facilitates capacity building for humanitarian organizations that address water, sanitation, and hygiene issues. Juliette’s overarching goal is to improve the usability and applicability of data-driven governance tools to tackle current societal challenges, particularly in developing and fragile contexts.

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