Profile
The Chair of Hydrology is part of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the TU Dresden. We examine hydrologic processes at the micro and mesoscale, considering the complex interactions with the energy and matter cycles. In application-oriented education and research, we pursue the development of technical engineering solution strategies for the most pressing worldwide problems.
One example is the sustainable management of scarce water resources under changing boundary conditions, such as climate change, demographic change, and urbanization.
The courses we offer ar "Bachelor of Hydrosciences" (German), "Master of Hydrology" (German), "Hydro Science and Engineering" (English), as well as the Erasmus Mundus master's program "Flood Risk Management" (English).
Additional to teaching the fundamental scientific knowledge of hydrology and an understanding for hydrologic processes, students are also instructed to develop their skills in the practical applications of hydrologic modelling technics, as well as of numerical tools for hydrologic and water resource management in complex systems.
Students are also enabled to solve practical problems such as flood forecasting, design of water supply systems and integrated water resources management.
The Chair of Hydrology consists of the following work groups:
Our main research fields are hydrosystem modelling and optimization of sustainable water resources management, hydrology of arid areas, water scarcity and irrigation, stochastic modelling of coupled hydrosystem and hydrologic processes in small and medium sized catchments.
We are working with regional and international partners, for example in Saxony, Israel, Oman, United Arab Emirates and New Zealand. In our research projects, the principles of sustainability, international cooperation and interdisciplinary approaches are an integral part of the collaboration between researchers from all over the world and of different scientific disciplines.
In the context of the Centre for Advanced Water Research (CAWR) the Chair of Hydrology is, as part of the field of Hydrosciences, very active in the intensification of relations to strategic partners like the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).