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Maria van Schaik

Maria van Schaik

Maria is a lecturer-researcher in the Water Technology research group at the HZ University of Applied Sciences. In 2014, she graduated in Water Management from HZ University of Applied Sciences and continued her education with a master's degree in Water Technology at the Wetsus Academy. For her master's degree, she completed her internship and thesis on Nereda®, a wastewater treatment technology developed by Royal HaskoningDHV. In her thesis, she focused on recovering alginate-like exopolysaccharides from excess Nereda® sludge using membrane filtration.

Since 2017, Maria has been working at HZ University of Applied Sciences, where she is involved in various projects of the research group Water Technology and teaches in the Water Management study program. The first project she worked on, the Interreg 2 Seas project NEREUS (duration 2017–2021), led to her PhD research titled "Model-based decision making for resource recovery from urban wastewater", which she successfully defended at Wageningen University in 2022. Since then, she has been involved in several other projects, including:

-Schone Waterlopen door O3G (Interreg VL-NL, 2023-2026) - LCA for ozonation and GAC filtration for MP removal from secondary effluent

-Digital Twin voor Waterbeheer (TKI, 2021-2024) - Data-driven modelling of WWTP Ede for forecasting effluent quality

- AquaConnect (NWO, 2021-2026) - Governance transitions for robust freshwater system in Zeeland

Projects

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Clean waterways through O3G

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NWO Perspectief AquaConnect

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