Manushi Ashok Jain

Manushi Ashok is the Co-founder and Director of Sponge Collaborative, an interdisciplinary strategic planning and design firm that focuses on nature-based solutions, integrated blue-green infrastructure, sustainable mobility, inclusive housing, and vibrant public spaces to help build resilient cities. She is an Architect and Urban Designer who has recently been featured on Forbes magazine’s ‘30 under 30’ young leaders for 2022.

Jasper Dijkstra

Jasper is a hydraulic engineer with a keen interest in interactions between hydrodynamics, morphology and biology in all kinds of environments. For his MSc-thesis at Delft University of Technology (TUD), he combined fieldwork and numerical modelling to study the effect of riparian vegetation on the development of the Volga River, Russia. During his PhD-candidacy at the same university, he shifted his focus towards estuaries and coasts and got more involved in ecology while working with Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) and NIOZ.