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Patrick Willems

Patrick Willems

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Environmental Sciences
Belgium
2026
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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
96
Citations
33220
World Ranking
460
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Patrick Willems is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their research interests are primarily centered on flood risk assessment and management, climate variability and models, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and drought analysis, meteorological phenomena and simulations, precipitation measurement and analysis, and climate change impacts on agriculture.

The scientist has authored several papers in well-regarded journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Climate change impact on short-duration extreme precipitation and intensity-duration-frequency curves over Europe (2020), Journal of Hydrology
  • Amplified Drought and Flood Risk Under Future Socioeconomic and Climatic Change (2021), Earth's Future
  • Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought (2021), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Compound Flooding in Coastal River Areas (2021), Water Resources Research
  • Lessons from the 2018-2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management (2022), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Patrick Willems frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research

Notable frequent co-authors in Willems' research collaborations include Hossein Tabari, Santiago Mendoza Paz, Jos Van Orshoven, Sotirios Moustakas, and Daan Bertels.

In addition to journal articles, Willems has a book publication titled Metrology in Urban Drainage and Stormwater Management: Plug and Pray, published by UWA Publishing in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Increased bone density in sclerosteosis is due to the deficiency of a novel secreted protein (SOST)

    W Balemans;M Ebeling;N Patel;E Van Hul

  • Abnormal dendritic spine characteristics in the temporal and visual cortices of patients with fragile-X syndrome: a quantitative examination

    Scott A. Irwin;Biraju Patel;Madhuri Idupulapati;Jennifer B. Harris

  • Identification of a 52 kb deletion downstream of the SOST gene in patients with van Buchem disease.

    W Balemans;N Patel;M Ebeling;E Van Hul

  • A point mutation in the FMR-1 gene associated with fragile X mental retardation

    K De Boulle;A J Verkerk;E Reyniers;L Vits

  • Mutations in SMAD3 cause a syndromic form of aortic aneurysms and dissections with early-onset osteoarthritis

    Ingrid M B H van de Laar;Rogier A Oldenburg;Gerard Pals;Jolien W Roos-Hesselink

  • Spatial and temporal rainfall variability in mountainous areas: A case study from the south Ecuadorian Andes

    Wouter Buytaert;Wouter Buytaert;Rolando Celleri;Patrick Willems;Bert De Bièvre

  • NONSYNDROMIC HEARING IMPAIRMENT: UNPARALLELED HETEROGENEITY

    G. Van Camp;P. J. Willems;R. J. H. Smith

  • Climate change impact assessment on urban rainfall extremes and urban drainage: Methods and shortcomings

    Patrick Willems;Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen;Jonas Olsson;V.T.V. Nguyen

  • Mutations in the human |[alpha]|-tectorin gene cause autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing impairment

    Kristien Verhoeven;Lut Van Laer;Karin Kirschhofer;P Kevin Legan

  • Mutations in the facilitative glucose transporter GLUT10 alter angiogenesis and cause arterial tortuosity syndrome

    Paul J Coucke;Andy Willaert;Marja W Wessels;Bert Callewaert

  • Nonsyndromic hearing impairment is associated with a mutation in DFNA5

    Lut Van Laer;Egbert H Huizing;Margriet Verstreken;Diederick van Zuijlen

  • Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

    O. Batelaan;D.A. Hughes;P.W. Swarzenski;P. Willems

  • Impact of spatial and temporal resolution of rainfall inputs on urban hydrodynamic modelling outputs: A multi-catchment investigation

    Susana Ochoa-Rodriguez;Li-Pen Wang;Auguste Gires;Rui Daniel Pina

  • Statistical precipitation downscaling for small-scale hydrological impact investigations of climate change

    Patrick Willems;Patrick Willems;Patrick Willems;M Vrac

  • Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems: a review.

    K. Arnbjerg-Nielsen;P. Willems;J. Olsson;S. Beecham

  • Non-syndromic, autosomal-recessive deafness.

    MB Petersen;PJ Willems

  • A time series tool to support the multi-criteria performance evaluation of rainfall-runoff models

    Patrick Willems

  • L1 Knockout Mice Show Dilated Ventricles, Vermis Hypoplasia and Impaired Exploration Patterns

    Erik Fransen;Rudi D'Hooge;Guy Van Camp;Marleen Verhoye

  • L1-Associated Diseases: Clinical Geneticists Divide, Molecular Geneticists Unite

    Erik Fransen;Guy Van Camp;Lieve Vits;Patrick J. Willems

  • Phenotypic spectrum of the SMAD3-related aneurysms–osteoarthritis syndrome

    Ingrid M B H van de Laar;Denise van der Linde;Edwin H G Oei;Pieter K Bos

  • Assessment of climate change impact on hydrological extremes in two source regions of the Nile River Basin

    M. T. Taye;V. Ntegeka;N. P. Ogiramoi;P. Willems

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Feyen
Jan Feyen University of Cuenca
Frank Van Breusegem
Frank Van Breusegem Ghent University
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Daniel Schertzer
Daniel Schertzer École des Ponts ParisTech
Ben A. Oostra
Ben A. Oostra Erasmus University Rotterdam
Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen
Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen Danish Meteorological Institute
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart
Dirk Raes
Dirk Raes KU Leuven

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