Astrid Offermans

Astrid studied General Social Sciences at Utrecht University. From September 2004 until June 2005 she successfully attended four anthropology courses and in September 2005 she started the Master-program ‘Social interventions and policy’. In June 2006 she completed this Master cum laude and with clear pass.

In December 2006, Astrid started as a junior-researcher at ICIS. She worked on the BSIK project ‘Perspectives in Integrated Water Management’ on the integration of research results from different academic disciplines and the development of integrated scenarios for water management in the Netherlands.

In 2008 Astrid started her PhD on integrating social Perspectives into a methodology to assess the sustainability of different water management strategies. Her PhD is part of the Deltares project “perspectives in Integrated Water Resources Management in River Deltas”.

Besides, Astrid was also involved in the EU- MATISSE project where she worked on the integration of social and cultural values in (agent based) models for integrated sustainability assessments. In 2007 and 2008 she also co-organized ‘sustainable Tuesday’ in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands.

Finally, she is a teacher of the course ‘Sustainable development, an introduction’ and teaches and coordinates the course ‘Globalization, environmental change and society’ at University College Maastricht.