Hydrogeology Hall of Fame

Dr. Claudius M. Bürger

research associate from Oct 2008 to August 2012

last known affiliation: Senior Researcher Computational Geosciences, Shell International B.V., Rijswijk, The Netherlands

claudius.buerger(at)gmail.com

postdoc and research associate from June 2012 to December 2018

habilitated 2018, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Habilitation Thesis: "Improved Statistics and Geostatistics for Subsurface Hydrology"

last known affiliation: Technical Director, Research Facility for Subsurface Remediation (VEGAS), University of Stuttgart.

claus.haslauer(at)iws.uni-stuttgart.de

research associate from January 2013 to December 2018

last known affiliation: research associate, Gesellschaft für Reaktorsicherheit gGmbh, Cologne

research associate from February 2019 to March 2022

last known affiliation: professor of Hydrogeology, Institute of Water, Waste, and Environment, University of Kassel, Germany

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postdoc from April 2013 to January 2015

Gabriele has worked on 3-D mixing in heterogeneous media.

last know affiliation: professor of Applied Geology and Modeling of Environmental Systems, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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postdoc from April 2014 to March 2015

Christina has worked on microbial dynamics in mixing-controlled contaminant plumes by 2-D flow-through experiments. From 2007 to 2014  she had been doctoral and postdoctoral researcher in the Hydrogeochemistry workgroup.

last know affiliation: consultant, CDM Smith, Offenbach.

Dr. Fernando Mazo D'Affonseca

postdoc from 2016 to 2019.

Fernando has worked on modeling the Muschelkalk aquifer in the area Oberes Gäu, which is affected by limestone quarries.

last know affiliation: Research Coordinator, Brazilian Center of the Universiy of Tübingen

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postdoc from January 2014 to March 2020

Daniel has worked on data assimilation of coupled subsurface/land-surface/atmospehre models in the Research Unit 2131 and on stochastic modeling of catchment-scale flow in the Collaborative Research Center CRC CAMPOS.

last known affiliation: Groundwater modeler, Tyréns AB, Sweden.

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postdoc from August 2017 to August 2020

Bhasker has worked on modeling coupled transport and geochemistry of arsenic in Vietnam.

last known affiliation: senior geochemical modeler at Environmental Geochemistry International, Balmain, New South Wales, Australia

Dr.-Ing. Surabhin Chackiath Jose

graduated 2004, Universität Stuttgart, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Thesis: "Experimental Investigations on Longitudinal Dispersive Mixing in Heterogeneous Aquifer"

last known affiliation: Associate Consultant (Waste Strategy and Procurement), SLR Consulting Ltd, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Schackiath(at)slrconsulting.com

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Nowak

graduated 2004, Universität Stuttgart, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Thesis: "Geostatistical Methods for the Identification of Flow and Transport Parameters in the Subsurface"

last known affiliation: Professor of Stochastic Simulation & Safety Research for Hydrosystems at University of Stuttgart, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems

wolfgang.nowak(at)iws.uni-tuebingen.de

Dr.-Ing. Md. Arifur Rahman

graduated 2005, Universität Stuttgart, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Thesis: "Experimental Investigations on Transverse Dispersive Mixing in Heterogeneous Aquifer"

last known affiliation: Regional Technical Specialist (Groundwater Modelling), Environment Agency, Alsall, United Kingdom

arifur72(at)yahoo.com

Dr. Wei Li

graduated 2008, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Sciences

Thesis: "Geostatistical Inference of Hydraulic Aquifer Parameters using Non-Classical Data"

last known affiliation: Database Adminstrator, SwissFederal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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Dr. Ronnie L. Schwede

graduated 2009, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Sciences

Thesis: "Geostatistical Determination of Mass Fluxes from Point-Like Measurements"

last known affiliation: Head of Scientific-Computing Department, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - CAESAR, Bonn 

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Dr. Davina Pollock

graduated 2011, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Sciences

Thesis: "Fully Coupled Hydrogeophysical Inversion of Salt-Tracer Experiments"

last known affiliation: Amt für Natur und Umwelt des Kantons Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland

davina.pollock(at)hotmail.com

Dr. Nelson A. Molina Giraldo

(direct supervision by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Blum)

graduated 2011, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Heat transport modeling in shallow aquifers The role of thermal dispersion in aquifers and heat conduction into confining layers"

last known affiliation: Groundwater Modeller, Senior Scientists and Partner of Fluid Domains Inc., Cochrane, Alberta Canada.

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Dr. Ashutosh Singh

(direct supervision by Dr. Claudius Bürger)

graduated 2013, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Optimization of Sustainable Groundwater Management in a Rapidly Developing Urban Setting"

last known affiliation: Hydrogeologist, Rejlers, Stockholm, Sweden

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Dr. Dennis Lemke

graduated 2013, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Advancing Reactive Tracer Techniques to Characterize River-Groundwater Interactions"

last known affiliation: Project Manager Water & Soil, Evonik Industries AG, Hanau, Germany

Dr. Stéphane Kamangou Ngueleu

graduated 2013, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Transport of Particles and Particle-Bound Compounds through Saturated Porous Media"

last known affiliation: Hydrogeologist, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, ON, Canada

Dr. Zijie Liao

graduated 2014, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Mathematical Analysis of Natural and Artificial Tracers for the Quantification of River-Groundwater Exchange"

last known affiliation: Compliance Consultant, Epic Solutions

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Dr. Dominik Eckert

graduated 2015, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "In-Situ Biodegradation of Organic Groundwater Contaminants: Delineating the Effect of Physical and Biological Processes by Reactive-Transport Modeling"

last known affiliation: Hydrogeologist, Regierungspräsidium Tübingen

Prof. Dr. Kennedy Okioghene Doro

graduated 2015, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Developing Tracer Tomography as a Field Technique for Aquifer Characterization"

last known affiliation: Associate Professor, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

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Dr. Diane von Gunten

(cosupervision by Thomas Wöhling and David L. Rudolph)

graduated 2016, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Modeling Hydrological Impacts of Climate and Irrigation Changes in a Mediterranean Catchment"

last known affiliation: R&D Manager, Centre de Recherges Energétiques et Municipales (CREM), Martigny, Switzerland

Dr. Anneli Guthke (Schöniger)

(direct supervision by Wolfgang Nowak, cosupervision by Thomas Wöhling and Walter Illman)

graduated 2016, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Bayesian Assessment of Conceptual Uncertainty in Hydrosystem Modeling"

last known affiliations: Junior Research Group Leader at Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science SimTEch at University of Stuttgart

Dr. Bijendra Man Bajracharya

(cosupervision by Chuanhe Lu and Philippe van Cappellen)

graduated 2016, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Microbial Dynamics in Natural Aquifers"

last known affiliation: Field Engineer/Tech in Production, Work and Project Management, ConeTec, Calgary, Canada

Dr. Alica Sanz Prat

(cosupervision by Chuanhe Lu and David Blowes)

graduated 2016, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Validation of Travel-and Exposure-Time Based Nonlinear Reactive Transport Models"

last known affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universitat Politècnica de València, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering

Prof. Dr. Julia L.A. Knapp

graduated 2017, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Advancing Stream-Tracer Techniques and their Mathematical Analysis"

last known affiliation: Professor of Hydrology at University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research.

Dr. Eduardo Emilio Sánchez-Léon

graduated 2018, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Solute Tracer Tomography - Field Implementation and Parameter Estimation using the Ensemble Kalmam Filter"

last known affiliation: Scientist, Environmental Protection Agency of Bavaria (LfU), Dept. of Groundwater Monitoring, Hof

Dr. Matthias Loschko

(cosupervision by Thomas Wöhling and David L. Rudolph)

graduated 2018, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Stochastic Framework for Catchment-Scale Reactive Transport Simulations"

last known affiliation: Managing Consultant at BoSS consult - environmental solutions, Stuttgart

Dr. Jeremy P. Bennett

(cosupervision by Claus P. Haslauer and Martin Ross)

graduated 2018, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Applying Fluvial Depositional Concepts in Solute Transport Modelling"

last known affiliation: Senior Hydrogeologist, INTERA Inc., Auckland, New Zealand

jeremypaulbennett(at)gmail.com

Dr. Yan Liu

(cosupervision by Christiane Zarfl and Nandita Basu)

graduated 2019, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Modelling the Fate of Sediments and Micropollutants in Rivers"

last known affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Agrosphere (IBG-3)

Dr. Marvin Höge

(direct supervision by Wolfgang Nowak, co-supervision by Thomas Wöhling  and Walter Illman)

graduated 2019, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Bayesian Multi-Model Frameworks – Properly Addressing Conceptual Uncertainty in Applied Modelling"

last known affiliation: Consultant, Sustainserv GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)

Dr. Reynold Chow

(direct supervision by Wolfgang Nowak, co-supervision by Thomas Wöhling, and Beth Parker)

graduated 2019, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Modelling Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange - Evaluating Model Uncertainty from the Catchment to Bedform Scale"

last known affiliation: Lecturer, Wageningen University, Soil Physics and Land Management, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Dr. Bo Xiao

(direct supervision by Claus Haslauer)

graduated 2021, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Three-Dimensional Non-Multi-Gaussian Simulation of Hydraulic Conductivity Including Multiple Types of Information"

Dr. Stefan Klingler

(direct supervision by Prof. Peter Dietrich)

graduated 2021, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Combination of Geophysical and Hydrogeological Methods for the Targeted Assessment of Fine-Grained Valley Fills"

last known affiliation: Consultant, Baugrund Süd Gesellschaft für Geothermie mbH, Munich

Dr. Ruth Maier

graduated 2021, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Estimating Hydraulic Anisotropy in Stratified Aquifers"

last known affiliation: Consultant, tewag Technologie - Erdwärmeanlagen - Umweltschutz  GmbH, Starzach

Dr. Philipp Selzer

(cosupervision by René Therrien)

graduated 2022, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Flux Postprocessing and Semi-Analytical Particle Tracking for Finite-Element Type Methods of Variably Saturated Flow in Porous Media"

last known affiliation: Staff Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Informatics

Dr. Anna Störiko

(cosupervision by Holger Pagel and Philippe van Cappellen)

graduated 2022, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Integrating Molecular-Biological Data and Process-Based Models of Nitrogen Cycling"

last known affiliation: Assistant professor, TU Delft, Department of Water Management, Delft, The Netherlands.

Dr. Jonas Allgeier

graduated 2022, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Analytical and Stochastic Numerical Methods for the Simulation of Subsurface Flow in Floodplains"

last known affiliation: Consultant at BoSS consult - environmental solutions, Stuttgart

Dr. Cora Strobel

(direct supervision by Adrian Mellage)

graduated 2024, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Tracing Reaction Dynamics with Spectral Induced Polarization"

last known affiliation: Consultant at HPC AG in Rottenburg, Germany.

Dr. Marie-Madeleine Stettler

(cosupervision by Marco Dentz, CSIC-IDAEA, Barcelona)

graduated 2026, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Stochastic Approaches to Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media"

last known affiliation: Consultant at HPC AG in Rheinfelden, Switzerland.

Prof. Dr. Peter Bayer

graduated 2003, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geoscience

Thesis: "Modelling, economic assessment and optimisation of in-situ groundwater remediation systems"

last known affiliation: Professor of Applied Geology, University of Halle

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Dr. Claudius Bürger

graduated 2005, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geoscience

Thesis: "Technical-economic optimization of in-situ reactive barrier systems under uncertainty"

last known affiliation: Senior Researcher Computational Geosciences, Shell International B.V., Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Dr. Irina Kouznetsova

graduated 2006, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geoscience

Thesis: "Development and application of a phenomenological modelling concept for simulating the long-term performance of zero-valent iron"

last known affiliation: Senior Researcher at University of Edinburgh, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, United Kingdom

Dr. Markus Kübert

graduated 2006, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geoscience

Thesis: "Modelling and Technical-Economic Evaluation of Point Scale and Integral Approaches for Investigating Contaminant Plumes in Groundwater"

last known affiliation: Consultant at tewag Technologie - Erdwärmeanlagen - Umweltschutz GmbH, Starzach, Germany

Dr. Ursula Solard McKnight

graduated 2009, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geoscience

Thesis: "A System Dynamics Approach for the Integrative Assessment of Contaminated Land Management Options"

last known affiliation: Senior Researcher Nature-Based Solutions, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Hydrological Research Unit, Norrköping, Sweden

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Dr. Milena Bieg

graduated 2009, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Geoscience

Thesis: "Cost Performance Models for Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies - A Basis for an Efficient Megasite Management Model"

last known affiliation: Consultant at Porr Umwelttechnik, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Sebastian Schädler

graduated 2011, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Targeted Design and Integrated Evaluation of Land Use Alternatives for Sustainable Brownfield Redevelopment"

last known affiliation: Application Specialist FIB-SEM at Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany

Dr. Maximilian Morio

graduated 2012, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science

Thesis: "Development of an Integrated Decision Support System for Brownfield Restoration"

last known affiliation: Consultant at Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus und Partner (kup), Stuttgart.

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