We congratulate our member of honors Mr. Hans van Duivendijk with his academic promotion.
On 17 June Hans van Duivendijk promoted as oldest promotee ever at Delft Technical University with his work on “Fighting Against the Current”. The dissertation focussed on the kind of easy closure methods used, in the past and at present, to repair breached dikes and to tidal channels by simple means. Hans van Duivendijks promoter was Prof. Bas Jonkman. The study is an unique historical research in the hydraulic engineering field.
Hans van Duivendijk worked whole his career in the field of hydraulic engineering, starting within the company Van Hasselt en de Koning and later Royal Haskoning (nowadays Royal HaskoningDHV). He worked all over the world and focussed on closures of dikes and construction of dams. The photo on the right is from the old box of Hans van Duivendijk where he in 1966 worked at the construction of the Kainji Dam in the Nord of Nigeria.
Beside the civil engineering work and committee work internationally, he worked for 20 years as Associate professor at the TU Delft in the field of hydropower.
