Head of Working group "Flood riks and climate adaptation"
Deputy speaker of Topic 4 “Natural Hazards: Understanding risks and safeguarding the human habitat” of the Helmholtz Research Programme Geosystem - The Changing Earth, Germany
Research Interests:
Flood risk assessment
Flood vulnerability analysis and loss modelling
Flood damage mitigation and risk management
Multi risk assessments
Career:
since 1/2015 Head of working group "Flood risk and climate adaptation" at the Section Hydrology
since 10/2015 lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the Geography department at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
09/2002 - 12/2014 (Senior) Scientist at the Section Hydrology, GFZ
02/1998 - 12/2001 PhD research position at the Leibnitz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim
08/1998 - 05/2000 Visiting researcher at the National Institute for Amazon-Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil
11/2000 - 12/2000 Visiting researcher at the Centre for Isotope-Research (CENA) in Piracicaba, Brazil
Education:
03/2015 Habilitation "Flood damage analysis, modelling and mitigation" at the Geography department at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
08/1998 - 06/2002 Dissertation at the Philipps-University of Marburg, thesis: „N2 fixation and denitrification in a floodplain forest in Central Amazonia, Brazil“
12/1991 - 09/1997 Student of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin
