• Flood risk assessment
• Flood vulnerability analysis and loss modelling
• Flood damage mitigation and risk management
• Multi risk assessments

current projects

• Climate proof flood risk management
• CEDIM
• CEDIM Project "Rapid flood event analysis"
• MATRIX
• WISDOM II

• ConHaz
• MEDIS
• DISFLOOD
• Integrated control centre for environmental disasters
• Quantification of economic flood losses of large scale damage scenarios
• Aquisition of flood losses and damage determining factors of the Elbe and Danube floods in August 2002
• Lessons Learned: Interdisciplinary survey of the Elbe flood
• OPAQUE
• MULTISURE
• CEDIM project "Flood risk in a changing climate"
• CEDIM Projekt "Changes of flood risk within the catchment of river Elbe"

Award for best presentation:
Vorogushyn S, Lindenschmidt K-E, Kreibich H, Apel H, Merz B (2011) 11. Forum Katastrophenvorsorge 2011, Potsdam, Germany

Award for Best Paper:
Poser K, Kreibich H, Dransch D (2008) Humans as Sensors: Assessing the quality of information from the public for rapid flood loss estimation. In: Pebesma E, Bishr M, Bartoschek T: GI Days 2008 - Proceedings of the 6th Geographic Information Days, June 16-18, Münster, Germany

Travel award of the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to the IAHS Scientific Assembly Foz do Iguacu, Brasil, April, 4-9, 2005

Kreibich H, Seifert I, Thieken AH, Lindquist E, Wagner K, Merz B (2011) Recent changes in flood preparedness of private households and businesses in Germany. Reg. Environ. Change, 11: 59-71

Kreibich H, Seifert I, Merz B, Thieken AH (2010) Development of FLEMOcs - A new model for the estimation of flood losses in the commercial sector, Hydrological sciences journal, 55, 8, 1302-1314

Kreibich H, Thieken AH (2008) Assessment of damage caused by high groundwater inundation. Water Resour. Res., 44: W09409, doi:10.1029/2007WR006621

Kreibich H, Müller M, Thieken AH, Merz B (2007) Flood precaution of companies and their ability to cope with the flood in August 2002 in Saxony, Germany, Water Resour. Res., 43: W03408, doi:10.1029/2005WR004691

Büchele B, Kreibich H, Kron A, Thieken A, Ihringer J, Oberle P, Merz B, Nestmann F (2006) Flood-risk mapping: contributions towards an enhanced assessment of extreme events and associated risks. NHESS, 6: 485-503

Kreibich H, Thieken AH, Petrow T, Müller M, Merz B (2005) Flood loss reduction of private households due to building precautionary measures - Lessons Learned from the Elbe flood in August 2002. NHESS, 5: 117-126

Merz B, Kreibich H, Thieken A, Schmidtke R (2004) Estimation uncertainty of direct monetary flood damage to buildings. NHESS, 4: 153-163

Gillett RW, Kreibich H, Ayers GP (2000) Measurement of Indoor Formaldehyde Concentrations with a Passive Sampler. Environmental Science and Technology, 34 (10): 2051-2056

Thomas GO, Sweetman AJ, Parker CA, Kreibich H, Jones KC (1998) Development and validation of methods for the trace determination of PCBs in biological matrices. Chemosphere, 36 (11): 2447-2459

Cousins IT, Kreibich H, Hudson LE, Lead WA, Jones KC (1997) PAHs in soils: contemporary UK data and evidence for potential contamination problems caused by exposure of samples to laboratory air. Science of the Total Environment, 203: 141-156


Special issues:

H Kreibich, L Bouwer, R Schwarze, F Guzzetti (Eds.) (2012/2013) Costs of natural hazards.NHESS

Kreibich H, Bostanaru Dan M (Eds.) (2009) Natural hazards’ impact on urban areas and infrastructures. Natural hazards, 51(3)

Kreibich H, Thieken AH, Stempniewski L, Zschau J (Eds.) (2006) Methods for risk assessment and mapping in Germany. NHESS