People
Dr Anne Van Loon
Anne is a hydrologist interested in the relationship between water, people and the environment. Her research focuses on hydrological extremes (droughts and floods) and uses interdisciplinary methods to understand hydrological processes and their interaction with human activities. She currently works on groundwater, snow and ice, urban hydrology, and mangroves. Anne is a Senior Lecturer in…
Benedikt Heudorfer
Benedikt is a postdoc working in the Groundwater Drought Initiative (GDI) project. He started his academic path in Munich, Germany, doing a Bachelor in Environmental Engineering, followed by a Masters degree in Hydrology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Recently, he finished his self-funded PhD project on groundwater dynamics during drought in Freiburg, before joining…
Danny Croghan
Danny is a PhD student specialising in urban hydrology. He is currently researching the effects of extreme events on water quality in cities. His research is focused on furthering understanding of water quality dynamics during extreme events within urban systems, for which he specifically looks at the effects of floods and droughts on water temperature…
Colin Manning
Colin is a PhD student working under Martin Widmann and Anne Van Loon. Prior to starting the PhD, he studied Environmental Science at University College Cork before going on to complete an MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology in Birmingham. Colin is working as part of an international collaborative project called CE:LLO (Compound Events: Multivariate…
Doris Wendt
Doris is a PhD student working on the influence of water management on hydrological droughts. Her research area is inspired by water conflicts around the world and previously projects were located in water-scarce areas in developing countries. Currently, her focus is on groundwater management that proves itself to be influential during droughts. Examples of the…
Lucinda Capewell
Lucinda is a PhD student with a passion for flood research. Lucinda began her studies at the University of Chester with a BSc in Geography and Natural Hazard Management. Following a dissertation thesis based on the use of Property Level Flood Protection in Worcestershire, Lucinda continued her studies in this area and completed a MSc…
Ruben Foquet
Ruben envisions to become the mangrove expert of the research group, an ecosystem that is exposed to extreme hydrological conditions. As a PhD student, he will focus on mangrove restoration, looking at the complex process from a financial, socio-economical and environmental point of view. Fieldwork is expected to be done in Kenya and South-east…
Marit Van Tiel
Marit is a PhD student based at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She did the Bachelor Soil, Water and Atmosphere and Master Earth and Environment, both at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). She started her MSc with an Erasmus exchange at the University of Oslo (Norway) and followed courses related to glaciology and meteorology. Due to…
Visiting group members
We welcome visiting scholars to our group. These are our visitors in 2018: Marit Van Tiel – from University of Freiburg – see here. Marina Peña-Gallardo – from CSIC, Spain – studying the different responses of natural systems to drought, validating different drought indices – see her profile here and here.
