Tessa Pronk

Tessa Pronk is a scientific researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. She has a broad interest in complex systems and in recent years worked in various appointments on topics in ecosystem biology, (toxico)genomics and data management. In doing so, she enjoys using useful techniques such as modelling, machine learning and text mining. In the programming language R, Tessa creates scripts to perform analyses. At KWR, Tessa is involved in method development and data mining in data-intensive projects. For example, she has developed a method for determining the required treatment effort of in surface and groundwater. Together with colleagues, she also determined a method for determining the reliability of so-called ‘trigger values’ derived for interpreting bioassay results. Furthermore, she is involved in forensic environmental chemistry projects, investigating why concentrations of chemicals vary at sites, and over time.