Presenter

MSc soil science Wageningen Agricultural University and MSc Atmospheric and Climate Sciences ETH Zurich, PhD hydrogeology Technical University of Spain, 2001 centred around inverse modelling of groundwater flow and solute transport, 2001-2009 postdoc and later lecturer at ETH Zurich, since 2009 group leader at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany and professor at RWTH Aachen in scientific computing of terrestrial systems. Research focus is on land surface and subsurface modelling of coupled water, energy and biogeochemical cycles, and data assimilation and inverse modelling to merge measurement data with models.