Senior Lecturer in Hydrogeology School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ England tel. +441603591297 v.bense at uea.ac.uk

I am a member of the Environmental Earth Sciences group within the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia based in Norwich, UK. My background lies both in Structural Geology and Hydrogeology. I received my PhD in 2004 from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where I was born (in 1974).

I am interested in complex, but not too complex, hydrogeological problems involving processes such as heat-transfer and variable-density flow. I aim to better understand such groundwater flow systems, like those listed below, using a combination of numerical modeling and field data collection. My current research focusses on three main themes, being:

• Faults and fluids in the shallow crust
• Groundwater in Arctic areas
• The use of heat as a tracer for fluid flow and climate change

Each of the links above will take you to dedicated pages (which are still partly under development...) for each of these themes outlining recent research results, future plans and work in progress.