Floor van der Hilst

Floor van der Hilst is full professor of Sustainable Land Use at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development of Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the challenge of how we can achieve sustainable land use and land management in the face of intensifying and often competing demands. She is particularly interested in the potential synergies and trade-offs between sustainability objectives. To address the complexity of sustainable land use, she adopts an integrated and interdisciplinary approach.

Prof. dr. van der Hilst received the AXA-IM Climate Transition Award for her contributions to climate change research. She is a Lead Author for the Seventh Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Chair of Task 45 of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy on the sustainability of the bioeconomy. Within Utrecht University, Van der Hilst leads the section Energy & Resources of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development.