Hydrogeology Hall of Fame
Former Research Associates
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
PD Dr.-Ing. Claus P. Haslauer
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.
Dr. Chuanhe Lu
research associate from January 2013 to December 2018
Jun.-Prof. Adrian Mellage, PhD
research associate from February 2019 to March 2022
last known affiliation: Junior-Professor of Hydrogeology, Institute of Water, Waste, and Environment, University of Kassel, Germany
Former Postdocs
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Chiogna
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
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
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Erdal
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.
Bhasker Rathi, PhD
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
Former Postdocs who had been PhD Students within the Group before (see below)
Dr. Ronnie L. Schwede
was postdoc after his PhD working on geostatistical inverse modeling
Dr. Wei Li
came back as a postdoc working on geostatistical inverse modeling
Prof. Dr. Julia L.A. Knapp
was postdoc after her PhD developing a membrane-inlet mass spectrometer for in-situ measurements of dissolved gases in rivers
Dr. Eduardo Emilio Sanchéz-Léon
was postdoc after his PhD in a project on data assimilation in coupled land-surface-soil-groundwater systems.
Former PhD Students Supervised by Olaf Cirpka
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dr. Tobias Vogt
graduated 2011, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Sciences
Thesis: "Quantification of Hyporheic Exchange Processes"
last known affiliation: Section Head Site Investigations, National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste - NAGRA, Wettingen, Switzerland
Dr. Anibal J. Perez Garcia
(direct supervision by Dr. Claudius Bürger)
graduated 2011, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science
Thesis: "Physically based numerical model of surface-groundwater flow and transport"
last known affiliation: Viceministro de Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico, Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio, Bogotá, Colombia
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.
Dr. Jozsef Hecht-Mendez
(direct supervision by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Blum)
graduated 2012, University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science
Thesis: "Optimization of Shallow Closed-Loop Geothermal Systems"
last known affiliation: Geophysicist, Amberg Technologies, Regensdorf, Switzerland
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
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: Investment Control Analyst , Shell Asset Management Company B.V., Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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
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: Associate Professor, Durham University (UK), Department of Earth Sciences.
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: 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
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, University of Freiburg, Hydrological Modelling and Water Resources
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: 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: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
Former PhD Students Supervised by Michael Finkel
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
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
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.