Staff

Education

Ph.D. at Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany | Grade: suma cum laude | 2013                  

M.Sc. in Regional Science/Spatial Planning at Institute of Regional Science (IfR) of University of Karlsruhe (TH) Germany | 2007                       

Bachelor in Urban and Rural Planning at Khulna University, Bangladesh | 1998

Professional training

• 27/06 – 18/07/2015      : BEAHRS Environmental Leadership Program, UC Berkeley
• 27/07 – 8/8/2014          : Summer Institute: Disaster and Risk in a Changing World, Beijing Normal University, China
• 11/06 – 25/06/2011      : Brown International Advanced Research Institute: Climate Change and Its Impacts: Water in a Changing Climate, Brown University, USA
• 01/03 – 30/04/2007      : Internship: at Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Dhaka
• 07/10 - 13/10/2007      : Winter School: The Economics of Corruption- Training in Good Governance and Reform at Passau University, Germany
• 01/11/2006 – 28/02/2007 : Internship: at Regional Planning Authority (Regionalverband), Karlsruhe City Corporation, Germany
• 01/03 – 30/04/1996      : Internship: at Grameen Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Job and research experience

• 02/2018 – 04/2018          : Visiting Lecturer, Department of Environmental Management, Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB), Bangladesh
• 03/2018 – 03/2018          : Conducted Field survey for the project on ‘Non-migration of the people at risks in context of socio-economic vulnerability’ in Southwest Coastal villages in Bangladesh.
• 04/2017 – 10/2017          : Guest Researcher, Institute of Regional Science (IfR) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
• 10/2016 – 03/2017          : Visiting Research Fellow, International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• 04/2013 – 09/2017          : Foreign Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, USA, Project “Social and Environmental Change in Bangladesh”.
• 08/2016 – 09/2016           : Visiting Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Spatial Planning, Erkner, Berlin
• 10/2012 – 12/2015           : Research Associate, Institute of Regional Science (IfR) of Karlsruhe Institute of

   Technology (KIT), Germany

• 03/2014 – 04/2014           : Team Leader of empirical study in Bangladesh under the project “Social and Environmental Change in Bangladesh” (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ISEEBangladesh/network.php)
• 06/2013 – 10/2013           : Host & guide a PhD Student of Twenty University, Netherlands under Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists’ Guest Fellowship of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• 07/2010 – 09/2012           : AutoCAD Assistant (part-time), GI-Consult, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 02/2010 – 04/2010           : Field survey under Ph.D. research in Bangladesh
• 02/2009 – 09/2009           : Field survey under Ph.D. research in Bangladesh
• 03/2008 – 09/2010           : Research Assistant, Institute of Regional Science (IfR) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany under the projects: (i) “Informal economy of Sundarbans”; (ii) “Micro-Credit and its impact on Society”
• 06/2004 – 03/2005           : Project Coordinator, Rehabilitation and Development Organization for Landless (RADOL), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• 10/2003 – 05/2004           : Senior Officer (Research, advocacy & Communication), Bandhu Social Welfare Society (BSWS), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• 07/2002 – 09/2003           : Research Officer, SHETU-Bangladesh, Satkhira, Bangladesh
• 10/2001 – 06/2002           : Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, Nari Uddug Kendro (NUK), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• 12/1998 – 09/2001           : Documentation Officer, Satkhira Unnayan Sangstha (SUS), Satkhira, Bangladesh.
• 01/1998 – 10/1998           : Research Assistant, Urban & Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh

• 07/2018 – 06/2019        : Guest editor, Social Sciences, Special issue on “Environmental (Non-)Migration in the face of Climate Change Adaptation” (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Environmental_Migration_Climate_Cha nge_Adaptation)
• 11/2017 – 10/2019        : Principal Investigator for Open-Topic Post-Doctoral Research on “Non-migration of the people at risk in context of socio-economic vulnerability”
• 05/2018 – 04/2019        : Co-investigator, Project on “Textile Industry and Human Mobility Pattern in Bangladesh” with Dr. Lisa Koep, Chair of Environmental Management and Accounting, TU Dresden, Germany
• 01/2017 -  to date           : Research Partner for the NSF SEES Project: Linking rural smallholder soil and water management practices in tropical deltas to sea level rise vulnerability. Principal Investigator: Dr. Kimberly RG. Rogers, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
• 09/2015 – 12/2017        : Lead editor with Kihwan Kim, Brittany Berger & David Zilberman of the book titled as
• “Resilient Communities” – Financed under Buck Kingman Initiative of UC Berkeley
• 06/2015 – 03/2016        : Team leader of research Project: Migrants at Slums – Livelihood at Risk, Research Project of Coastal Research Foundation (CRF), Khulna, Bangladesh
• 04/2014 – 03/2015        : Team leader of research Project: Risk at Relocated Settlements at Government supported Gucchagram project in Bangladesh- Research project of Coastal Research Foundation (CRF), Khulna, Bangladesh
• 02/2014 – 05/2014         : Team Leader of field research: Household Key Informants Interview (HHKII) and Qualitative Survey in Bangladesh under Integrated Social, Environmental and Engineered Model (ISEE) Project of Vanderbilt University, USA
• 12/2012 – 12/2014        : Lead Editor with Dr. Benjamin Etzold of the Book: Environment, Migration and Adaptation: Evidence and Politics of Climate Change in Bangladesh – financed by International Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh, AHDPH Publishing House- Dhaka
• 12/2013                            : KAAD publication grant for Dissertation
• 05 – 08/2013                   : Host and Guide Guest Researcher of ITC, Netherland, support provided from Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS) at KIT
• 07 – 12/2011                   : Co-Principal Investigator, Project: Interdisciplinary discourse on climate change adaptation (IDCCA): global implications and local response to extreme events in Asian trans-boundary river basins, Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), USA
• 9/2010 – 6/2011            : Team leader of empirical survey on Informal Economy of Sundarbans – Research Project of Institute of Regional Science (IfR) of KIT and Coastal Research Foundation (CRF), Bangladesh
• 9/2009 – 05/2010          : Team leader of Documentation on: Living with Cyclone Aila project of Coastal Research Foundation (CRF), Bangladesh
• 12/2009 – 03/2010        : Research Assistant at DAAD-STIBET Grant, supported from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Project: Literature review on micro-credit
• 03/2009 – 08/2009        : Field Research Grant, supported from Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS), of KIT

Teaching

• WS 2018-19: ‘Population and Environment’ for the masters’ student at Disaster Management and Science of the University of Dhaka, as a part-time lecturer
• WS 2017-18: ‘Actors Workshop’ for the masters students (Hydro Science & Engineering Module ‘Flood Risk Management II’, Erasmus Mundus ‘Flood Risk Master’) at TU Dresden, (Module speaker: Prof. Dr. Jochen Schanze)
• WS 2017-18: ‘Flood & Migration’ Workshop for the masters students (Hydro Science & Engineering, Module ‘Flood Risk Management II’, Erasmus Mundus ‘Flood Risk Master’), at TU Dresden(Module speaker: Prof. Dr. Jochen Schanze)
• WS 2013-2014: 'Regional Statistics' for masters' student (M.Sc. in Regional Science, Module 3, Module speaker: Professor Joachim Vogt), at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• September 2014: 'Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti' – for the Post-Graduate Student, Department of Political

Science of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

• WS 2013-2014, WS 2014-2015, SS 2015: 'Disaster Management and Regional Planning: International Experiences' for the postgraduate Student (Module 21: Risk, Vulnerability and Catastrophe in the regional Planning, Module speaker: Professor Joachim Vogt)
• WS 2013-2014, WS 2014-2015, & WS 2015-16: Empirical Research Methods and Tools for Planners (Module 8: Research Methods, Module speaker: Prof. Joachim Vogt)

Supervision

• 07/2018 – to date: Master’s thesis supervisor (external) of Ms. Afroza Mallick, at the department of Disaster Management and Science of the University of Dhaka, title of thesis: Human (non-)migration in Riverbank Erosion Prone Communities in Bangladesh: A Case Study of Ramdaspur Village of Bhola District
• 07/2018 – to date: Master’s thesis supervisor (external) of Ms. Nafisa Nuari Islam, at the department of Disaster Management and Science of the University of Dhaka, title of thesis: Socio-spatial distribution of cyclone shelters and its influence on the refuge decisions in context of a cyclone in Bangladesh: A case study in Bagerhat & Bhola districts
• 07/2018 – to date: Master’s thesis supervisor (external) of Ms. Sara Hanan Chowdhury, at the department of Disaster Management and Science of the University of Dhaka, title of thesis: Assessing Socio-Economic Vulnerability Associated Migration Decision of the Coastal People in Bangladesh
• 11/2015 – to date: Mentor of PhD Project: Factors and risks of drinking water supply in rural southwest, Bangladesh; at Institute of Regional Science (IfR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
• 05 – 08/2013: Host a guest fellow at KIT, S.M. Tanvir Hassan, PhD Student, ITC, Netherlands
• 02 – 05/2014: Guide and Mentor of Field research of the PhD project of Ms. Anna C, Carella, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, PhD project: International Affairs of Foreign Aids in Bangladesh
• 2013: Supervisor of study project on ‘Ziele, Chancen und Risiken von Mikrokreditprogrammen in Entwicklungsländern mit besonderem Fokus auf den Bedingungen in Zentralasien’, at Institute of Regional Science (IfR), KIT
• 2012: Supervisor of study project on ‘Methoden der Evaluation von Mikrokreditprogrammen und Ergebnisse zu ihrer Wirksamkeit in Bangladesch’, at Institute of Regional Science (IfR), KIT
• 04-08/2010: Guide of field research for  Master’s  Thes is of Pierre Borghi, Pierre Mendès-France University, Grenoble, France; Thesis: Evaluation of Disaster Mitigation Interventions and Its Impact on Coastal Society in Bangladesh

• 07 July 2018: Coordinator of expert workshop on 'River Navigability and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh: Economic Importance and Impacts of Environmental Change' cohosted by Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences of Vanderbilt University- USA, Department of Geology and Department of Fisheries of University of Dhaka (DU), Department of Environmental Management of Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB), International Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Development (ICCCAD) and Riverine People.
• 05 April 2018: Lead host & coordinator of international conference on “Immobility in the face of climate change in Bangladesh” at Independent University of Bangladesh, in collaboration with ICCCAD- Bangladesh.
• 04 April 2018: Lead host & coordinator of expert-discussion on ‘Climate Change adaptation: Resilience and Migration Debates’, at Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS)” of the University of Dhaka.
• 30 April 2016: Lead host & coordinator of international round-table discussion on “Coupled human-natural interactions: environmental and social changes in southwest Bangladesh”, at Planners Auditorium at Dhaka, in cooperation with Vanderbilt University (VU), Dhaka University (DU), Khulna University (KU), and Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP)
• 02 May 2016: Lead host & Coordinator of international workshop on ‘Livelihood and Environment of Southwest Bangladesh – Stakeholders perspective for policy planning’, CSS Ava Centre, Khulna, Bangladesh in cooperation with VU, DU, KU and BIP

• 2017 Successful Graduate Award, 4th Batch of Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh
• 2017 Enrichment Funds of American Association of Geographers (AAA) Award
• 2016 Visiting Research Fellowship at International Migration Institute (IMI) of the University of Oxford, UK
• 2016 King Buckman Initiative Grant for Environmental Leadership Project, UC Berkeley
• 2015 Elsevier Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award
• 07/ 2014 Summer Institute Fellowship, Beijing Normal University, Peking, China
• 04/2012 Emerald Literati Network Excellence Award 2012: Highly Commended Paper
• 06/2011 Climate Change Award 2011 of Brown Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), Brown University, USA
• 10/2010 – 09/2012 PhD scholarship from KAAD (Catholic Academic Exchange Program)
• 10/2005 – 09/2007 German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) for M.Sc. Study at Institute of Regional Science (IfR) of University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
• 07/1994 – 11/1998 Bachelor Scholarship – Khulna University scholarship

Hydrologe, Physischer Geograph, GIS- Spezialist

09/2019 – aktuell          Gastwissenschaftler, Professur für Umweltentwicklung und Risikomanagement, TU Dresden

10/2018 – aktuell          Projektleiter, Professur für Umwelthydrosysteme, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (ALU)

04/2016 – aktuell          Projektkoordinator & PostDoc, Umwelthydrosysteme, ALU

08/2015 – 03/2016        Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Professur für Hydrologie, ALU

01/2012 – 07/2015        Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter & Doktorand, Professur für Hydrologie, ALU

11/2009 – 05/2010        Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Professur für Geographie, Universität Lethbridge, Kanada

01/2009 – 09/2009        Praktikum: Nationales Institut für Wasser und Atmosphärische Prozesse, Christchurch, Neuseeland (NIWA)

• DüMa-3sam: Wegweiser zum integrativen Dürremanagement im Einzugsgebiet der Dreisam“ (Leitung & Forschung)
• DRIeR: Drought Processes, Impacts and Resilience (Koordination & Forschung)
• Niedrigwassermanagement in Süddeutschland durch die Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (Forschung)
• DROUGHT R&SPI: Fostering Drought: Research and  Science Policy Interfacing

01/2012 – 11/2015       Promotion in Hydrologie (Dr. rer. nat.), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität                                            Freiburg

                                        Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stahl, Prof. Dr. Lena Tallaksen

                                        Titel: “Drought Risk on a pan-European scale”

11/2010 - 05/2011         Saxonia Bildungsinstitut, Ausbildung zum GIS- Spezialist, Dresden

10/2002 - 11/2010         Diplom- Studium der Physischen Geographie an der TU-Dresden, Abschlussarbeit: „Snowfall in Southern Alberta–a Global Climate model based prediction for future snow conditions in prairie and alpine landscapes”,

 Fachliche Vertiefung in:

• Flood Risk Management (Abschlussarbeit, am Nationalen Institut für Wasser und Atmosphärische Prozesse, Neuseeland (NIWA): “Tsunami and flood hazard exposure of city council infrastructure in Christchurch“.
• Meteorologie, Gewässerschutz

06/2002                        Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Vitzthum Gymnasium Dresden

• Klimaheld 2019 - Einwerbung des Projektes „Wegweiser zum integrativen Dürremanagement im Dreisam Einzugsgebiet“, finanziert durch badenova AG & Co
• Förderung der „Entwicklung flexibler, hydrologischer Monitoringsysteme für die Niedrigwassermodellierung kleinskaliger, nicht überwachter Einzugsgebiete“ durch die Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg
• Gründung und Leitung der „Initiative Dürremanagement Dreisam“
• Aktives Mitglied der IAHS Panta Rhei–Drought in the Anthropocene - Gruppe
• Repräsentant der Graduiertenschule:” Environment, Society and Global Change (ESCG), ALU, Germany, 2012-2015”

2020    Gastgeber der EGU-Konferenz-Veranstaltungen „Drought risk, vulnerability and impact assessment: achievements and future directions” sowie “Costs of natural hazards” 2020

Gastgeber der EGU-Konferenz-Veranstaltung “Costs of natural hazards” 2019

• Blauhut, V. (i. Ersch.). The triple complexity of drought risk analysis and its visualisation via mapping: a review across scales and sectors, Earth- Science- Reviews
• Sutanto, S.J., van der Weert, M., Wanders, N., Blauhut, V. and Van Lanen, H.A., (2019). Moving from drought hazard to impact forecasts. Nature communications, 10(1), pp.1-7.
• Kreibich, H., Blauhut, V., Aerts, J.C., Bouwer, L.M., Van Lanen, H.A., Mejia, A., Mens, M. and Van Loon, A.F. (2019). How to improve attribution of changes in drought and flood impacts. Hydrological sciences journal, 64(1), pp.1-18.
• Blauhut, V. & Stahl K. (2018). Risikomanagement von Dürren in Deutschland: von der Messung von Auswirkungen zur Modellierung. in: Hydrologische Wissenschaften, Heft 39.18, S.:341-352, 2017.
• KLIWA. (2018). Niedrigwasser in Süddeutschland. Analysen, Szenarien und Handlungsempfehlungen. KLIWA-Berichte, Heft 23.
• Blauhut, V., Stahl, K., Stagge, J. H., Tallaksen, L. M., De Stefano, L., and Vogt, J. (2016). Estimating drought risk across Europe from reported drought impacts, drought indices, and vulnerability factors, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2779-2800, doi:10.5194/hess-20-2779-2016
• Blauhut, V., G., Stahl, K., Kohn, I. (2015). The dynamics of vulnerability to drought in Europe, in Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing, Andreu et al.(Eds.), Chapter, Taylor & Francis group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02779-4

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Education

2007 Diploma in Hydrology, Technische Universität Dresden

Job and research experience

• since 05/2020
  Research Associate, TUD Chair of Environmental Development and Risk Management Project KlimaKonform
• since 04/2019
  Research Associate, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development Project ScaDS.AI
• 04/2015 - 02/2019
  Research Associate, TUD Chair of Environmental Development and Risk Management Research Fellowship Stiftung Umwelt und Schadenvorsorge
• 09/2013 - 03/2015
  Teaching Assistant, TUD Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology
• 04/2013 – 06/2013
  Project Manager, Consultant Schweiz
• 09/2010 - 03/2013
  Teaching Assistant / Lecturer, ETH Zurich Institute of Environmental Engineering
• 04/2008 - 03/2010
  Research Associate, TUD Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology Project KliWES
• 04/2007 - 03/2008
  Employee, Consultant

Teaching - Selection

• WS 2020/21: Plain Flood Workshop, Hydrodynamic Modelling
• WS 2020/21: Highlight Lecture Flood Risk Management

Past

• Ingenieurhydrologie TUD

• Experimental and Computer Laboratory ETH Zürich (Year Course)

• Hydrology 1 ETH Zurich (Fall Semester)

Supervision - Selection

2020

• M. Rahimizadeh "Multi-criteria Optimisation of WaSiM-ETH with AMALGAM for the Reproduction of Hydrologic Flow Processes using High Performance Computing − example Mulde River"
• S. Fernandes Cunha "Evaluation of 2D unsteady flow simulation with HEC-RAS 5.0x under a climate change ensemble considering WEREX V and COSMO-CLM − example Mulde River"

2018

• T. Aprilia "Tool development for the comprehensive estimation of flood damage using
  a building-inventory approach with the example of Bennewitz, Germany"

2017

• M. Hearn "Evaluation of 1D/2D river flood simulation with HEC-RAS 5.0.3 considering climate change of boundary conditions"

• A. Konis "Evaluation of 2D unsteady flow simulation with Lisflood-FP for high performance computing of climate ensembles"

• E. Popat "Flood vulnerability assessment for building-inventories with an example of Bennewitz, Germany"

• 2018 Best Poster Award, Symposium „Von Krisen, Resilienz und neuen
  Lösungen“, Stuttgart, Deutschland

Projekte

• KlimaKonform
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• ScaDS.AI
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• KliWES (2008 - 2010)
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