Alumni and Alumnae

Dr. Christian Passow (second cohort)

• Thesis: An approach for the classification of European windstorms
• Defended on 24 January 2023

Dr. Mauricio de Jesus Arboleda Zapata (associated)

• Thesis: Adapted inversion strategies for electrical resistivity data to explore layered near-surface environments
• Defended on 20 January 2023

Dr. Oscar Esli Jurado de Larios (associated)

• Thesis: Extreme Rainfall Events: Incorporating Temporal and Spatial Dependence to Improve Statistical Models
• Defended on 28 November 2022

Dr. Reza Dokht Dolatabadi Esfahani (second cohort)

• Thesis: Time-dependent Monitoring of Near-surface and Ground Motion Modeling: Developing New Data Processing Approaches based on Music Information Retrieval (MIR) strategies
• Defended on 28 October 2022

Dr. Melanie Fischer (second cohort)

• Thesis: Outburst Floods in the Greater Himalayas - From Regional Susceptibility to Local Hazard (Project: Q8)
• Defended on 21 October 2022

Dr. Jana Ulrich (second cohort)

• Thesis: Statistical Modeling of Extreme Precipitation on Different Timescales – Towards Consistent and More Efficient Use of Available Data (Project: P6)
• Defended on 26 August 2022

Dr. Abhirup Banerjee (second cohort)

• Thesis: Characterizing the spatio-temporal patterns of Extreme Events - from recurrence to prediction (Project: Q5)
• Defended on 16 August 2022

Dr. Guilherme Samprogna Mohor (associated)

• Thesis: Exploring the transferability of flood loss models across flood types
• Defended on 5 July 2022

Dr. Fabio Brill (associated)

• Thesis: Applications of machine learning and open geospatial data in flood risk modelling
• Defended on 17 June 2022

Dr. Matthias Kemter (second cohort)

• Thesis: River floods in a changing world (Project: Q6)
• Defended on 10 June 2022

Dr. Johannes Joscha Vogel (second cohort)

• Thesis: Seasonal variations in the ecological impacts of compound climate events (Project: I9)
• Defended on 22 February 2022

Dr. Erwin Rottler (first cohort)

• Thesis: Transient merging of two Rhine flow regimes from climate change (Project: P2)
• Defended on 30 August 2021

Dr. Jennifer von Keyserlingk (first cohort)

• Thesis: Assessment of early-warning signals and tipping points of sudden ecosystem shifts causing rapid land degradation in drylands (Project: P4)
• Defended on 20 July 2021

Dr. Thomas Moran (first cohort)

• Thesis: Natural hazards in a changing climate – What causes the variability? (Project: I1)
• Defended on 18 June 2020

Dr. Irene Crisologo (associated)

• Thesis: Enhancing the effectiveness of flood early warnings in the Philippines
• Defended on 19 November 2019

Dr. Sebastian von Specht (first cohort)

• Thesis: Likelihood-based Optimization in Strong-motion Seismology (Project: I3)
• Defended on 25 October 2019

Dr. Jonas Laudan (first cohort)

• Thesis: Changing susceptibility of flood-prone residents in Germany - mental coping and mitigation behaviour in the context of different flood types
• Defended on 13 August 2019

Dr. Georg Veh (first cohort)

• Thesis: Outburst floods from moraine-dammed lakes in the Himalayas: Detection, frequency, and hazard (Project: I4)
• Defended on 12 August 2019

Dr. Bernhard Fiedler (first cohort)

• Thesis: Change-point detection for seismicity parameter (Project: I2)
• Defended on 10 July 2019

Dr. Iulii Didovetz (associated)

• Thesis: Assessment of climate change impact on river runoff and extremes in Ukraine
• Defended on 17 May 2019

Dr. Viktor Rözer (associated)

• Thesis: Pluvial flood loss to private households
• Defended on 9 May 2019

Dr. Dadiyorto Wendi (first cohort)

• Thesis: Recurrence Plots and Quantification Analysis of Flood Runoff Dynamics (Project: Q1)
• Defended on 5 April 2019

Dr. Tobias Sieg (first cohort)

• Thesis: Reliability of flood damage estimates across spatial scales (Project: Q4)
• Defended on 22 February 2019 

Dr. Ugur Öztürk (first cohort)

• Thesis: Learning more to predict landslides (Project: P1)
• Defended on 21 February 2019

Dr. Ankit Agarwal (first cohort)

• Thesis: Unravelling spatio-temporal climatic patterns via multi-scale complex network (Project: Q2)
• defended on 29 January 2019

Dr. Amelie Stolle (associated)

• Thesis: Catastrophic Sediment Pulses in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal
• defended on 3 July 2018