Prof. Margreet van Zanten is a senior scientific researcher in air quality at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). She specialises in the emission, dispersion and deposition of atmospheric substances, combining expertise in both measurements and modelling. Since February 2024, she has been appointed one day per week as Professor of Emission, Dispersion and Deposition of Atmospheric Substances at the Meteorology and Air Quality group of Wageningen University & Research.
Van Zanten studied Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at Utrecht University, where she also obtained her PhD on turbulent mixing processes in stratocumulus cloud layers. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Netherlands, the United States and at KNMI on boundary-layer cloud research. Since 2017, she has been Head of the Dutch Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and has been involved in various studies on the nitrogen cycle, including deposition measurements, high-resolution modelling and the validation of emissions using (satellite) observations. From her professorship, she provides guest lectures at WUR and supervises PhD candidates and students.
Areas of Expertise
- Air quality
- Anthropogenic emissions
- Deposition processes
- Boundary-layer meteorology
Additional functions
- Editor of Tijdschrift Lucht
- Chair of the core team of the Non-CO₂ Greenhouse Gas Conference (NCGG10)
Publications
Publications can be found at ResearchGate.