Dedicated Lectures in Natural Hazard and Risk Research
Invited Lectures in 2024
| Date | Name | Title |
| 02.09.24 | Dominic Sett, United Nations University (UNU-EHS) | Advancing understanding of complex flood risks to inform comprehensive risk management: Findings from Hue, Central Vietnam |
| 24.07.24 | Sara Rokaj, Politecnico di Milano | Flood Impacts on Population: Preliminary Results from a Questionnaire in the Municipalities affected by the 2022 Flood Event of Marche Region, Italy |
| 18.07.24 | David Essing, Ruhr University Bochum | Small-Magnitude Seismicity Matters: Unveiling active physical processes in the crust through earthquake swarms |
| 11.06.24 | Daniela Molinari, Politecnico di Milano | Towards Multicriteria Evaluation tools for assessing risk mitigation strategies |
| 28.05.24 | Luisa Hosse, NIWA | A nation-wide object-level flood hazard risk assessment for New Zealand |
| 22.01.24 | Eduardo Noriega, INPA & University of Amazonas State | Hydrological modeling of the Bolivian Andes-Amazon transition: preliminary efforts |
Invited Lectures in 2023
| Date | Name | Title |
| 27.11.23 | Tran Thi Tuyen, Vinh University | Risk of Landslides and Floods in Vietnam's mountainous areas: approaches and research methods |
| 16.10.23 | Ben Mirus, U.S. Geological Survey | Landslide hydrology and monitoring across the U.S.: implications for situational awareness and early warning |
| 14.06.23 | Okke Batelaan, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, College of Science and Engineering Flinders University | Droughts, floods and fires Downunder – hydrological perspectives |
| 11.05.23 | Thorben Römer, Hannover Re | Flood event response and rapid damage estimation from a reinsurers point of view |
| 30.03.23 | Shruti Tandon Chopra, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Multilayer network analysis of a turbulent thermoacoustic system |
| 30.03.23 | Dr Gaurav Chopra, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Understanding transitions in fluid dynamics and climate systems using complex networks |
Invited lectures in 2022
| Date | Name | Title |
| 23.11.22 | Kamal Rana, Rochester Institute of Technology and Kushanav Bhuyan, University of Padova | Contemporary Landslide Risk Assessments: Applications for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence |
| 10.11.22 | Dr. Liselotte Hagedoorn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Valuing ecosystem services in lower income countries |
| 01.11.22 | Prof. Bruce D. Malamud, King's College London | Multi-Hazard Interrelationships |
| 10.10.22 | Dr. Ugur Öztürk, GFZ Potsdam | Integrated Risk Model for Landslide Risk Assessment |
| 04.10.22 | Prof. Hilary McMillan, San Diego State University | Naming, sharing and predicting hydrological processes |
| 26.08.22 | Dr. Daniel Viviroli, PD, University of Zurich | The hydrological significance of mountains |
| 21.07.22 | Prof. Dr. Christian Kuhlicke, UFZ Leipzig | Can risk communication increase the motivation to prepare and if so, how to prove it? |
| 15.07.22 | Dr. Nils Borchard, Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft | Water scarcity risks food supply and well-being: A topic requiring cross-sectoral collaboration |
| 07.07.22 | Dr. Antje Otto, University of Potsdam | Environmental conflicts and perspectives |
| 01.06.22 | Dr. Odin Marc, CNRS | What do we need to better constrain spatial and temporal occurrence of rainfall induced landslides? |
| 05.04.22 | Max Schneider, GFZ Potsdam | Hazard map design |
Invited Lectures in 2021
| Date | Name | Title |
| 15.12.2021 | Babita Malakar, IIT Rorkee, India | Framework development for landscape evolution of the Himalayan (Alaknanda) river basin in response to natural hazards and associated geomorphological changes |
| 15.12.2021 | Prachi Singhal, IIT Rorkee, India | Projection of flood seasonality Changes in a Garhwal Himalayas river basin due to global warming |
| 15.12.2021 | Aniruddha Saha, IIT Rorkee, India | Forecasting of Glacial Lakes evolution and size over the years |
| 17.11.2021 | Prof. Sergiy Snizhko, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine | Water resources of Ukraine: assessment of climate impact, availability and adaptation measures |
| 09.06.2021 | Dr. Peter Greve, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria | Uncertain water resources in a changing world |
| 15.03.2021 | Inga Sauer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany | Disentangling drivers of historical river flood losses |
| 19.02.2021 | Prof. Walter Immerzeel, Utrecht University, Netherlands | Climate-change impact on Himalayan hydrology |
| 08.02.2021 | Dr. Manuela Brunner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, US | Spatial hydrologic extremes in the United States: from floods to droughts |
| 25.01.2021 | Dr. Annette Patton, University of Oregon, US | Integrating soil moisture, precipitation, and geomorphic assessment for a community-driven landslide warning system in Sitka, Alaska |
Invited Lectures in 2020
| Date | Name | Title |
| 04.12.2020 | Dr. Wolfgang Schwanghart, University of Potsdam, Germany | How debris damages dams - and why we need geomorphology in hydropower safety assessment |
| 20.10.2020 | Dr. Shyam Nandan, ETH Zürich, Switzerland | RichterX: an operational earthquake prediction platform |
| 13.10.2020 | Dr. Timothy Hewson, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), United Kingdom | ECMWF approaches to forecasting hazardous weather |
| 03.09.2020 | Dr. Sylvie Parey, EDF Lab Paris-Saclay, France | The link between mean, variance and extremes and its use to estimate future extremes: examples for temperature and rainfall |
| 12.08.2020 | Dr. Cecilia Nievas, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ, Germany | Moving toward building-by-building damage assessment: an earthquake scenario in the city of Cologne |
| 25.06.2020 | Dr. Luis Samaniego, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Leipzig), Germany | Concurrent droughts and heatwaves: past, present and future perspectives for Europe |
| 18.06.2020 | Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stahl, University of Freiburg, Germany | Recent drought events in Germany: impact of climate change and changing impacts |
| 11.06.2020 | Dr. Martina Kauzlaric, University of Bern, Switzerland | Hydro-meteorological stress tests of modelling chains for flood impact studies |
| 05.03.2020 | Dr. Yoshito Hirata, University of Tsukuba, Japan | My personal history of recurrence plots: A journey starting from neuroscience to econophysics, geosciences and molecular biology05.03.2020 |
Invited Lectures in 2019
| Date | Name | Title |
| 28.11.19 | MSc. Marlies Barendrecht, TU Wien, Austria | The value of empirical data for estimating the parameters of a sociohydrological flood risk model |
| 23.10.19 | Dr. Morteza Zargar, University of Potsdam, Germany | Contrary extreme hydrological events in Iran in 2018 and 2019 |
| 16.09.19 | MSc. Michael Szoenyi, Zurich Insurance, Switzerland | The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance: pre-event resilience building and post-event forensic research |
| 12.08.19 | Prof. Wilfried Haeberli, University of Zurich, Switzerland | Some reflections on risk reduction related to vanishing high-mountain ice |
| 31.07.19 | Dr. Toon Haer, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands | Integrating decision-making processes in flood risk analysis – an agent-based modelling approach |
| 20.05.19 | Dr. Uwe Ehret, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie KIT, Germany | Data-and information-based learning and prediction: Background and applications from Hydrology and Meteorology |
| 09.05.19 | Prof. Chris Zevenbergen, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands | Shifting time horizons in (urban) flood risk management |
| 11.03.19 | Dr. Wolfgang Kron, Munich Re | Risk Quantification in the (re-)insurance industry |
| 11.03.19 | Dr. Holger Cammerer, DEVK Rückversicherung | Risk Quantification in the (re-)insurance industry |
| 16.01.19 | Dr. Massimiliano Pittore, GFZ Potsdam, Germany | From multi-hazard to multi-risk: Exploring complex systemic risk in Chile, Peru and Ecuador |
Invited Lectures in 2018
| Date | Name | Title |
| 05.12.18 | Dr. Anette Eltner, TU Dresden, Germany | UAV photogrammetry for geomorphological and hydrological monitoring |
| 21.11.18 | Prof. Dr. Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen, Department of Environmental Engineering DTU Kopenhagen, Denmark | Changing flood risk in cities, what are the drivers and how do we manage? |
| 20.11.18 | Myrna de Hoop, University of Utrecht, Netherlands and Jennifer von Keyserlingk, TU Berlin, Germany | Studying the effect of grazing on vegetation dynamics in Cyprus using a change detection method and local knowledge |
| 19.09.18 | Dr. Christian Otto, PIK Potsdam, Germany | Modeling the global economic repercussions of local disasters - The dynamic agent-based model acclimate |
| 28.06.18 | Prof. Dr. Rajendra Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India | Current Water Management Issues in India: Approaches, problems, and possible solutions |
| 16.04.18 | Prof. Dr. Kuo Fong Ma, National Central University of Taiwan, China | Taiwan Earthquake Model: Progress and Challenges |
| 28.03.18 | Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wagener, University of Bristol, UK | Utilizing Global Sensitivity Analysis to support model development, application and decision making across natural hazard areas |
| 07.02.18 | Yasutaka Haneda, University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science, Japan | The spatial distribution of landslides after the Komamoto earthquake 2016 |
| 12.01.18 | Prof. Dr. John Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno, US | Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for the United States: Overview, Logic Trees and Induced Seismicity |
Invited Lectures in 2017
| Date | Name | Title |
| 13.11.17 | Prof. Michel Campillo, Grenoble University, France | Passive monitoring of seismic velocity change at different time scales |
| 24.10.17 | Dr. R. Maheswaran , MVGR College of Engineering, India | Multiscale Hydrological forecasting and modelling using wavelets based nonlinear models |
| 19.10.17 | Dr. Wolfgang Kron, Munich Re | Coasts – The riskiest places on earth |
| 11.10.17 | Dr. Nishant Malik, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US | Transitivity reinforcement in coevolving network models |
| 12.09.17 | Max Schneider, University of Washington | Where could the earthquakes happen (and how certain can we be)?: Towards better disaster risk decision-making in the Pacific Northwest |
| 11.07.17 | Dr. Diana Sietz, Wageningen University | Knowledge on dynamic ecosystem regimes is vital to achieve sustainable land management |
| 30.06.17 | Prof. Karsten Schulz, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) (Austria) | The importance of temperature (sensing) in hydrology |
| 20.06.17 | Prof. Scira Menoni, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) | Pre- and post-disaster damage assessment for multiple sectors and at different spatial and temporal scales |
| 09.06.17 | Nico Bahro, Universität Innsbruck (Austria) | Agentenbasierte Modellierung in der Hydrologie - Ideen zur Entwicklung einer Schnittstelle |
| 05.05.17 | Dr. Klaus Bittermann, Tufts University Boston (USA) | Human Impact on US Costal Floods |
| 03.04.17 | Paul Hudson, IVM Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Flood insurance - a tool for a more resilient society |
| 07.03.17 | Prof. Marco Borga, University of Padova (Italy) | Hydrologic and geomorphic response to extreme storms in river systems |
| 07.03.17 | Dr. Michael Bründl, Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF (Switzerland) | Evaluation and assessment of river flooding hazards and risks |
| 06.03.17 | Prof. Peter Rutschmann, TU München | Measuring and modelling river floods |
| 06.03.17 | Dr. Donal Mullan, Queens University Belfast (UK) | Modelling global change |
Invited Lectures in 2016
| Date | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11.11.16 | Prof. Günter Blöschl, TU Wien - Centre for Water Resource Systems (Austria) | Progress in flood research |
| 07.10.16 | Prof. Rainer Helmig, University of Stuttgart | Numerical models for evaluating the competitive use in the subsurface: The influence of energy storage and production in groundwater |
| 06.10.16 | Prof. Jesus Carrera, CSIC Barcelona (Spain) | Numerical simulation to assess the competition for pore space in the subsurface |
| 19.07.16 | Dr. Swenja Surminski, London School of Economics (UK) | Role of insurance in addressing current and future flood risks – the case of Flood Re in the UK |
| 27.06.16 | Prof. Eduardo Martins, FUNCEME (Fortaleza, Brazil) | Hydro-meteorological forecasting in NE-Brazil |
| 27.06.16 | Prof. Mario Mendinondo, University of São Paulo (Brazil) | Early Warning Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction of Hydrologic Extremes on Vulnerable Communities |
| 23.03.16 | Dr. Christian Kuhlicke, UFZ Leipzig | Managing uncertainties in climate change adaptation: The case of future flooding in England |
| 14.03.16 | Dr. Wolfgang Kron, Munich Re | Risk Quantification in the (re-)insurance industry |
| 14.03.16 | Dr. Holger Cammerer, DEVK Rückversicherung | Risk Quantification in the (re-)insurance industry |
| 10.02.16 | Prof. Efrat Morin, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel) | Extreme desert rain storms and flash floods: Insights gained from space-time analysis |