{"id":158,"date":"2014-12-15T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwesselink.nl\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2025-03-17T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:32:29","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bwesselink.nl\/en\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:65.3333%; margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>Since 2014 I have been working as an independent researcher and consultant. Before that I worked successively at the RIVM, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, climate &amp; energy consultancy Ecofys and the World Wildlife Fund.<\/p>\n<p>After studying Soil Science at Wageningen University in the Netherlands (cum laude), I obtained my doctorate with a thesis entitled Time Trends and Mechanisms of Soil Acidification. 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