Judith Bosboom is a Senior Lecturer in Coastal Engineering in the Department of Hydraulic Engineering. She holds MSc and PhD degrees from Delft University of Technology in hydraulic and coastal engineering and has worked in research, consultancy and education since 1995.

Her professional career has combined academic, consultancy and educational work. She started at Delft Hydraulics (now Deltares), researching nearshore hydrodynamics and sediment transport alongside advisory work. From 2000 to 2007, she worked as a management consultant and project manager, developing and delivering training and coaching programmes as well as managing projects in different professional settings. In 2007, she returned to TU Delft, where she has since worked on coastal engineering education and the development of innovative approaches to teaching and assessment.

At TU Delft, Judith has been closely involved in the development and teaching of the MSc curriculum in coastal engineering. She has taught and developed courses in Coastal Dynamics and Coastal Engineering and contributes to teaching in both the MSc Hydraulic Engineering programme and the BSc Civil Engineering programme.

Judith has received multiple teaching awards over the years, including several for Best Lecturer in the MSc Hydraulic Engineering programme, as well as faculty- and university-wide awards. In 2016, she received both the TU Delft Best Lecturer Award and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Best Lecturer Award. In 2026, she received a TU Delft Open Education Ambassador Award for her commitment to innovative and accessible education.

A major part of her current work is Open Coastal Education, an initiative to make high-quality coastal engineering education openly accessible.

Open Coastal Education brings together the Coastal Dynamics Open Textbook, Open Codebook and Open Quizbook. The Coastal Textbook, authored by Judith Bosboom and Marcel Stive and first published in 2021, grew out of the lecture notes for the TU Delft Coastal Dynamics course and covers the interrelation between waves, flow, sediment transport and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide range of coastal systems.

The Coastal Codebook consists of Jupyter notebooks with interactive exercises that allow students to explore and reflect on concepts from the textbook through coding, visualisation and questions. The Coastal Quizbook builds on quizzes originally developed for the Coastal Dynamics course and has evolved into a web-based resource accompanying the Open Textbook. It provides formative quizzes for the textbook chapters, with public access to the quizzes being progressively expanded.

Open Coastal Education is a collaborative effort involving colleagues and students across TU Delft, with support from the TU Delft Library, the TU Delft Open Education Stimulation Fund and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. The Open Coastal Education portal provides access to the resources at coastal.ceg.tudelft.nl.

Alongside her educational work, Judith's research has focused on the evaluation of numerical models of coastal morphology. Her PhD research, completed in 2020, addressed the assessment of morphological model predictions, with particular attention to the spatial structure of predicted and observed morphological patterns. The research resulted in three approaches for model validation: field deformation or warping, optimal transport, and scale-selective validation. These methods provide ways of evaluating morphological predictions that go beyond conventional point-wise error measures.

Judith also has a professional background in photography and obtained a BSc-level qualification in architectural photography from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam in 2009.