Communication & Team-work

• Leading the European task group on Impacts of soil erosion for the EU Soil Strategy, consisting of 14 members
  
• Setting up and managing the SCAPE project
  
• Organising workshops bringing together international experts and stakeholders (e.g., International workshop 'Protection Forest: Science and Practice'
  
• Setting up and co-ordinating international research projects
  
• Lecturing on geomorphology, forestry, geomatics and natural hazards at different European institutes and giving courses on effective oral presentation
  

Scientific Excellence and Political Awareness

• Published +20 papers in ISI journals, work experience in nine different countries and in four European projects, participated at more than 30 international conferences
  
• Reviewer for +10 scientific journals, Guest-editor of the Swiss Forestry Journal
• Received a Marie-Curie Fellowship and the Niels Stensen Scholarship
  
• Representing the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment in the Soil Protection Strategy of the European Commission
  
• Member of the IUCN Ecosystem Management Commission
  

Expertises and projects

• Rockfall hazard assessment in Vaduz and Steg, Liechtenstein (2007/2008, AWNL Liechtenstein)
• Rockfall hazard assessment in Haiming, Tyrol (2006 BFW, Austria)
• Field and simulation based assessment of silvicultural effects on the rockfall hazard in Sisikon (2006 GWG, Switzerland)
• Field and simulation based assessment of the effect of forest on rockfall hazard in Sonnaz (2005 ONF, France)
• Provialp project (2004-2007, EC)
• KnowForAlp project (2004-2007, EC)
• External rockfall-forest expert proposing a revision of the risk prevention plan of Vic-sur-Cère (2004/2005 ZG, France)
• Field assessment of the effect of forest on the rockfall hazard and proposition of eco-engineering measures at the Mont-Blanc highway (2004 DDE/ONF, France)
• Field and simulation based assessment of the effect of forest on rockfall hazard in Mont Dore (2004 Dep 63, France)
• External rockfall-forest expert for the SilvaProtect-CH project (2004 Buwal, Switzerland)
• Regional rockfall hazard mapping in the Wipptal using a 3D simulation model (2003 WLV, Austria)
• Rockfor (Rockfall and Forest Interrelation) project (2001-2003, EC)
• EcoSlopes project (2001-2003, EC)
• Field and simulation based assessment of the effect of forest on rockfall hazard in Gaschurn (2001 Stand Montafon, Austria)
• Cartesian project (1998-2000, EC)
• Landslide risk analysis in Vaduz (1998 AGRG, Liechtenstein)

Career history

• Scientific Officer, Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (CH), July 2008 - present
  
• Senior Researcher, Cemagref (FR), September 2005 - June 2008
  
• Marie Curie post-doc fellow, Cemagref Grenoble (FR), September 2003 - August 2005
  
• Task Group Leader, EC / Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment (NL), June 2003 - June 2004
  
• Project Manager, SCAPE (NL), October 2002 - September 2003
  
• Lecturer / Researcher, University of Amsterdam (NL) / IHE (NL), June 1998 - September 2002
  
• Junior Consultant, Resource Analysis (NL), September 1997 - March 1998
  

Education

• PhD Natural Sciences, University of Amsterdam (NL), 1998-2002
  
• MSc Physical Geography, University of Amsterdam (NL), 1993-1998
  
• Technical Management Science, Techn. University Eindhoven (NL), 1992-1993
  

Other relevant information

• E-mail: luuk.dorren@cemagref.fr
  
• Date of birth: July 10th, 1973
  
• Excellent in English and Dutch
  
• Good working knowledge of German and French
  
• Expert in Geomatics and raster based modelling in Matlab