Team
Together with a multidisciplinary consortium, including universities, the fishing industry, nature organisations, research institutes and the government, we are working towards a future with ecologically responsible sand extraction in the North Sea that is aligned with all stakeholders.
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Meet our team
OR ELSE’s research team consists of experts on ecologically sound sand extraction in coordination with other interests in the North Sea.
Management team
Project leaders

Jan Jaap Poos
Co-project manager WP 1.4
Wageningen Universiteit - Aquacultuur en visserij

Johan van der Molen
Co-project manager WP1.3
NIOZ

Jaap van der Meer
Professor WP1.4 & 1.5
Wageningen Universiteit - Aquacultuur en visserij

Julie Pietrzak
Professor and Project manager WP1.1
TU Delft

Suzanne Hulscher
Professor WP1.2
UTwente