Dr. Thomas Petzoldt
Scientist, Staff Member
(Limnology and Ecologcal Modelling)
Institute of Hydrobiology
Workgroup Limnology
Address
TU Dresden
Institute of Hydrobiology
Helmholtzstr. 10
01069 Dresden
Location:
Zellescher Weg 40 (Drudebau)
Tel. +49 351 463 34954
Fax +49 351 463 37108
thomas.petzoldt@tu-dresden.de
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Curriculum Vitae
- 1983 - 1988: study of biology
at Rostock University and Dresden University of Technology
- Diploma degree: Statistical data analysis
and Monte Carlo simulation with the lake model SALMO
- 1988 - 1996: Scientist and "computer person"
at the Institute of Hydrobiology
- 1996: PhD about Possibilities of phytoplankton
prediction with different models approaches
- Since 1996: Scientist at the Institute of Hydrobiology:
teaching, research projects, computer network administrator
Teaching
... and together with other people:
Research Topics
- Process models for hypothesis testing in limnology
(differential
equations and individual based models)
- Role of reservoirs within catchment areas (joint project
"Spree")
- Model simplification and module construction using
empirical
rules and artificial neural networks
- Individual based simulation of diurnal vertical migration
and population dynamics of Daphnia (together wih Karsten Rinke)
- Decision support for water quality management
of lakes and reservoirs with the ecological lake model SALMO
- Development of an hydrophysical-ecological
coupled reservoir model system (Joint Project GETAS)
- Integrated management of multi-purpose drinking water reservoirs (Joint Project IntegTa)
- Model-aided analysis of climate impacts on planktonic food webs based on long-term data of the Saidenbach Reservoir (wihtin the DFG Priority Programme
AQUASHIFT)
==> More info about ongoing projects (
abstracts, staff, details)
Committees and Memberships
- member of the study commission of the department of hydrosciences,
- member of the German Limnological Society (DGL), the International Society of Limnology (SIL) and of the R Foundation for Statistical Computing (R Foundation),
- working group member of the German Drinking Water Reservoir Management Group (ATT),
- Associate Editor of the "Journal of Statistical Software" (JSS), Reviewer for different international limnological and ecological journals.
Publications
Tutorials, Tools und Downloads
Almost all packages are results of collaborative work with other first authors or co-authors, please consult the package description for details.
- R package simecol (Ecological models: differential equations, individual-based, spatially explicit, ...)
- the PDF of the corresponding publication is freely available
- R package qualV (qualitative model validation criteria)
- the PDF of the corresponding publication is freely available
- R package cardidates (peak-fitting and determination of "cardinal dates" in phytoplankton time series)
- with quickstart manual (PDF)
- R package proto
- Other R packages dedicated to modelling dynamic systems
- Modelling for Limnologists with R (in German):