Vera van Beek

Vera van Beek graduated in Engineering Geology at the Delft University of Technology in 2005. After graduation she started working for Deltares at the unit Soil Mechanics. Vera has always had affinity with research and has worked on several research projects at Deltares. She is specializing in fysical model research both in the geocentrifuge and normal g-level. She has been involved in the development of BioSealing, a method to seal leakages in the subsurface, and works on various research projects aiming for better understanding of the mechanism of piping, a failure mechanism for levees.