Priv. Doz. Dr.-Ing. Kai Schröter

Function and Responsibilities:
Senior scientist section Hydrology
SAFERPLACES Lead Work Package 3 - Damage modeling
DIGITAL EARTH bridging Postdoc
Research Interests:
flood riskflood forecasting and warning
hydrological and hydraulic modelling
uncertainty analysis and optimisation methods
Career:
since 02/2021 Lecturer (Privatdozent) for Hydrology at the Institute of Environmental Science and Geography at the University of Potsdam
since 2012 Research associate German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Section Hydrology, Potsdam
2008 - 2012 Project engineer and project manager BWS GmbH, Hamburg
2002 - 2008 Research associate, Section for Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources Management (IHWB), TU-Darmstadt
Education:
2020 Habilitation (Dr. rer. nat. habil) at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Science, "Improved flood risk assessment: new data sources and methods for flood risk modelling"
2008 Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) at Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of Civil Engineering, "A contribution to the uncertainty analysis of distributed hydrological models"
1996 - 2002 Civil Engineering, TU-Darmstadt
Projects:
Current projects:
- SAFERPLACES
- Digital Earth
Completed projects:
- CEDIM rapid flood event analysis
- 3dcfd - 3d-city flood damage module
- OASIS+ open access catastrophe modelling driving adaptation to enable resilience
- MSCA ETN System-Risk
- H2020 Insurance - Oasis Innovation Hub for Catastrophe and Climate Extremes Risk Assessment
Research Boards and Committees:
Editor for the Journal Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesAwards:
Promotion with ‘summa cum laude’ (2008)AGU Journal Water Resources Research ‘Editor’s Choice Award’ (2015)