Dr. Melanie Fischer

Haus
C 4,
Raum
1.27/1.28 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Karriere:
- 10/2018 – 01/2023 Research associate Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, Universität Potsdam
- DFG-RTG NatRiskChange and Natural Hazards working group
Werdegang / Ausbildung:
- 10/2018 – 10/2022 Doctoral studies DFG Research Training Group NatRiskChange at Universität Potsdam
- Thesis: Outburst Floods in the Greater Himalayas - From Regional Susceptibility to Local Hazard
- 10/2014 – 09/2018 M.Sc. Geosciences at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Thesis: Investigations on the Sediment Architecture and Depositional Evolution of a Sandy Barrier Spit System using the Ground-penetrating Radar Method, Island of Sylt, N Germany
- 08/2016 – 12/2016 Erasmus+ Exchange Semester at University College Cork
- M.Sc. "Applied Coastal and Marine Management"
- 10/2011 – 09/2014 B.Sc. Geosciences at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Thesis: Faziesanalyse kontinentaler Ablagerungen im Vera Becken bei Jauro, SE Spanien
Projekte:
- AVOSS – “Impact-based forecasting of heavy rain and flash floods at different scales: potentials, uncertainties and limitations”
- Work package D: Damage model, damage-based forecasting and risk communication
- NatRiskChange – “Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World”
- Project Q8: Evolving risks from Himalayan glacial outburst floods