11/2023 - today

Research Associate Professor (non-tenure)
Dept. Earth and Environmental Science at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Focus: "Calibration, Sensitivity Analysis, High-performance computing, Large-scale hydrologic and data-driven models"

12/2022 - 10/2023

Research Scientist, Lead of UFZ cluster at ScaDS.AI
Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence ScaDS.AI, Leipzig, Germany.
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Focus: "Large-scale hydrology using process-based and data-driven models."

03/2019 - 11/2022

Research Assistant Professor (non-tenure)
Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Focus: "Calibration, Sensitivity Analysis, Data Assimilation, forecasting, and high-performance computing"

09/2016 - 02/2019

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hydrology Research Group at Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Focus: "Calibration, Sensitivity Analysis, Data Assimilation, forecasting, and high-performance computing"

10/2015 - 12/2015

Research stay
Hydrology Research Group at Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Focus: "Multi-objective calibration of hydrologic models"

05/2011 - 08/2016

Postdoc position
Dept. Computational Hydrosystems at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Focus: "Parameter estimation, Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Environmental Systems"

09/2007 - 05/2011

PhD in Applied Mathematics
Dept. Computational Hydrosystems at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Thesis: "From environmental contaminants to cellular response: A 3D approach to model the distribution and interaction of contaminants in living cells" at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany.
November 30^th, 2011 (magna cum laude)

10/2005 - 08/2007

Studies of Applied Mathematics (M. Sc.)
University of Applied Science HTWK Leipzig, Germany.
Thesis: "Utilization of computed tomography data for the generation of a 3D finite element model of a osseous structure" at University Clinic Leipzig, Biomechanics Laboratory, Leipzig, Germany.
Defense: August 30^th, 2007 (mit Auszeichnung)

10/2001 - 09/2005

Studies of Business Mathematics (Diploma FH)
University of Applied Science HTWK Leipzig, Germany.
Thesis: "Development of methods to use prior knowledge about working plans and achieved product quality to recommend most appropriate procedure to improve quality planning in semi-manufacturing industry" at Wieland-Werke AG, Vöhringen/ Ulm, Germany.
Defense: November 8^th, 2005 (sehr gut)

since 02/2023

Co-editor of special issue "Meteorology and hydroclimate observations and models" in Nature's Scientific Data

since 01/2023

Member of Scientific Committee for Sensitivity Analysis for Model Output (SAMO)

since 01/2023

Associate Editor for Journal of Hydrology

since 11/2022

Reviewer for Nature Communications

since 10/2020

Co-editor of special issue "Towards more credible models in catchment hydrology to enhance hydrological process understanding" in Hydrological Processes

since 04/2020

Convener/ co-convener of EGU session on "Advances in diagnostics, sensitivity, uncertainty analysis, and hypothesis testing of Earth and environmental systems models."

since 12/2019

Member of AGU Technical Committee on "Hydrological Uncertainty"

since 10/2019

Reviewer for Journal of Hydrometeorology

since 12/2017

Primary convener of AGU session on "Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Analysis of Earth and Environmental Models"

since 04/2017

Associate Editor for Water Resources Research

since 01/2017

Reviewer for Environmental Modeling and Software

since 06/2016

Reviewer for Advances in Water Research

04/2016

Co-convener of EGU session on "Hydroinformatics: computational intelligence, uncertainty, systems analysis, optimization, data science, and data-driven modeling of social-hydrologic systems"

12/2015

Co-convener of AGU session on "Efficient Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Environmental Models"

04/2015

Co-convener of EGU session on "Uncertainty, Sensitivity Analysis and Efficient Diagnostics in Geosciences"

02/2015 - 08/2016

Founding Member of UFZ's working group on "Inverse modeling and optimization"

since 01/2014

Reviewer for Journal of Hydrology

since 07/2013

Reviewer for Water Resources Research

12/2012 - 08/2016

Lead of open-source hydrologic model developer team, and user community (mHM)

11/2011 - 08/2016

Lead of UFZ Fortran library and coding standards

since 2011

Member of American Geophysical Union

since 2011

Member of European Geoscience Union