Biography
Bastian van den Bout is a researcher at Twente University, and the founder of FastHazard, the spinoff company developing the FastFlood.org model. He has a passion to develop tools that allow for state-of-the-art flood technologies and models to be used easily in vulnerable communities. FastFlood.org and FastSlide.org are two recent models that link automatically with global datasets and allow for groundbreaking simulation speeds. His work has involved large-scale research projects, national-scale hazard mapping and education and supervision for students. He further is involved as a senior consultant for the World Bank (WB) Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) group. His main focus is on innovation in the link between space-based data and modelling technologies for hazard modelling.
