Prof. Bernhard Vowinckel is the new professor for Transport Processes in Hydrosystems at the Institute for Urban and Industrial Water Management. Welcome!

"Until July 2023, I held a position as Junior Research Group Leader at the Leichtweiß-Instiute for Hydraulic Engineering (TU Braunschweig, Germany). The research group is funded by the Emmy-Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation via the project “Particle-resolving Simulations of Cohesive Sediment Dynamics (PRO-MUD).

After studying Hydrology at the universities of Freiburg and Dresden (Germany), I graduated from TU Dresden in 2009. For my Diploma thesis in Hydrology, I carried out Reynolds-Averaged-Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations through vegetated canopies. For my doctoral studies at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics at the TU Dresden, Germany, I analyzed sediment transport in turbulent open-channel flow. After obtaining my doctorates from TU Dresden, I joined the group of Prof. Eckart Meiburg at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, in 2015 to perform research as a postdoctoral scholar in the fields of geophysical flows. Until today, I have been working with Prof. Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and Prof. Eckart Meiburg on an NSF grant to design, prepare and analyze experiments that were carried out on the International Space Station (ISS) from July until November 2018 to study flocculation of clay particles without the influence of gravity. From December 2018 until February 2020, I was employed as a Research Associate at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR, Germany) to work on coupled hydraulic-mechanical-thermal simulations for the study of clay stone as a host rock for the final disposal of nuclear waste."