• Hydrodynamic and water quality modelling, flood damage estimation, flood risk management
• Analysis of remote sensing data for geo-ecological applications (e.g., vulnerability to natural hazards, land degradation)
• Field and imaging spectroscopy

EnMAP – Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program

Generation, transport and retention of water and suspended sediments in large dryland catchments: Monitoring and integrated modelling of fluxes and connectivity phenomena, subproject Remote Sensing (DFG, 2010-2013)

FLOODsite - Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies, subprojects Pilot study Elbe River and Identification and ex-post evaluation of existing flood risk management measures (EU 6th FP, finished, 2004-2009) http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/Geooekologie/forschung/hydrologie/projekt_floodsite.html

Möglichkeiten zur Minderung des Hochwasserrisikos durch Nutzung von Flutpoldern an Havel und Oder (BMBF, finished, 2003-2004) http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/Geooekologie/forschung/hydrologie/projekt_hochwasserrisiko.html

09/1996 to 12/2002
Student of geo-ecology (diploma) at Potsdam University
Diploma thesis: Classification of urban land cover types using air-borne hyperspectral scanner data

09/1998 to 06/1999
Study abroad at the University of Southampton/UK

12/2008
Dissertation at Potsdam University. Thesis: An analysis of hydraulic, environmental and economic impacts of flood polder management at the Elbe River (http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2726/index.html)

02/2003 to 08/2008
PhD research position at the Institute of Geo-ecology at Potsdam University

09/2008 to 12/2008 and 07/2009 to 12/2009
Research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pattern Dynamics and Applied Remote Sensing at Potsdam University

01/2009 to 06/2009
Research assistant at the Geophysical Institute at Karlsruhe University

01/2010 to 06/2010
Research assistant at the Institute for Earth and Environmental Studies at Potsdam University

since 02/2010
Research assistant at GFZ Potsdam

Articles in peer reviewed journals

KNEIS D, FÖRSTER S AND BRONSTERT A (2009): Simulation of water quality in a flood detention area using models of different spatial discretisation. Ecological Modelling, 220: 1631-1642.

FÖRSTER S, KUHLMANN B, LINDENSCHMIDT K-E AND BRONSTERT A (2008): Assessing flood risk for a rural detention area. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 8 (2): 311-322.

CHATTERJEE C, FÖRSTER S AND BRONSTERT A (2008): Comparison of Hydrodynamic Models of Different Complexities to Model Floods with Emergency Storage Areas. Hydrological Processes, 22 (24): 4695-4709.

FÖRSTER S, CHATTERJEE C AND BRONSTERT A (2008): Hydrodynamic Simulation of the Operational Management of a Proposed Flood Emergency Storage Area at the Middle Elbe River. River Research and Applications, 24: 900-913.

FÖRSTER S, KNEIS D, GOCHT M AND BRONSTERT A (2005): Flood Risk Reduction by the Use of Retention Areas at the Elbe River. Intl. Journal of River Basin Management, 3 (1): 21-29.


Conference papers

NEUMANN, C, FÖRSTER S A AND ITZEROTT S (2010): From field spectra to an area-wide monitoring – A case study in a dryland nature reserve in Germany. Hyperspectral Workshop. March 17-19, 2010, ESRIN Frascati, Italy. Special Publications SP-683. 5pp.

FÖRSTER S, KADEN K, BRONSTERT A AND ITZEROTT S (2009): Satellite-based crop identification for agricultural flood damage estimation in Germany. Proceedings of the International Conference on Food Security and Environmental Sustainability FSES, Dec 17-19, 2009, IIT Kharagpur, India. 8pp.

FÖRSTER S AND BRONSTERT A (2008): Assessment of hydraulic, economic and ecological impacts of flood polder management – A case study from the Elbe River, Germany. Floodrisk2008, Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2008, Oxford, UK, 1411-1418.

FÖRSTER S, CHATTERJEE C AND BRONSTERT A (2007): Reducing flood risk by emergency storage - A case study from the Elbe River. In: Schanze J (Ed.). 2007. Flood Risk Management Research. From extreme events to citizens involvement. Proceedings of the European Symposium on Flood Risk Management Research, Febr 6-7, 2007, Dresden, Germany, 217-219.

FÖRSTER S, CHATTERJEE C AND BRONSTERT A (2006): Hochwasserüberschwemmungssimulation mittels hydrodynamischer Modellierung für das Management eines geplanten Polderstandortes an der Mittleren Elbe. In: Jüpner R (Ed.). Beiträge zur Konferenz „Strategien und Instrumente zur Verbesserung des vorbeugenden Hochwasserschutzes“. Internationale Konferenz, Nov 23-25, 2006, Tangermünde, Germany. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Wasserwirtschaft und Ökotechnologie der Universität Magdeburg-Stendal, Band 6. Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 83-92.