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Young CEDA Pitch Talks - details

2026-04-14

A popular session at the Dredging Days is “Young CEDA Pitch Talks”. In less than 7 minutes, students and young professionals will present their ongoing work, expose their ideas to a broad audience and get immediate feedback and inspiration.

The best presentation by an author under 40 years of age, will win the International Association of Dredging Companies' Young Pitch Talk Award. The winner will receive this award, consisting of a statue and a sum of € 500, during the event. The content of the presentation will be published in either Terra et Aqua or DFSI Magazine.

The following Students and Young Professionals will feature in this year’s session:

Sem Geerts, University of Twente
How do tidal sandbanks in sediment-scarce environments recover from large-scale sand extraction?

Zofia Matysiuk, Royal IHC
The economic potential of mechanical seagrass restoration

Joren Pots, Deme
Reassuringly accurate dredging in exposed conditions: the increasing role of the TSHD in offshore energy projects

Andrea Raes, Delft University of Technology
A study into the influence of collector geometry and operating conditions on nearfield sediment dispersion during deep-sea mining

Mohammad Amin Sayyah, Ghent University
Mechanical response and microstructural evolution of crushable sands under compression

Vanessa Sohrt, The Federal Waterways Engineering And Research Institute (BAW)
Modelling sediment transport of fine sediments during the construction phase of a jetty in the Jade bay, Germany

Nedeljko Stevanovic, Ecocoast
Foam-free silt curtains in marine construction: performance, carbon reduction and circular design

Rutger Voeten, Boskalis
The underlying physics of mechanical capping: an analytical approach and material point method

 

For more details on the programme and to register, please visit https://ceda.eventsair.com/dd26/.