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Principal Investigators

Steven Gorelick

Steven Gorelick 

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Project Role: Project Leader and Principle Investigator (Stanford)
Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, Department of Earth System Science , Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Director, Global Freshwater Initiative, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Areas of Research: Hydrology, water resources, and ecohydrology
Emailgorelick@stanford.edu

Roz Naylor

 

 

Rosamond (Roz) Nayler

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Project Role: Co-Principle Investigator (Stanford)
William Wrigley Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Areas of Research: Food security, economics, political economy
Emailroz@stanford.edu

Karin Küblböck

Karin Küblböck

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Project Role: Principal Investigator (ÖFSE)
Economist, Facilitator and Mediator, Senior Researcher, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Resource, trade, and investment policies
Emailk.kueblboeck@oefse.at

Ines Omann

 

Ines Omann

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Project Role: Principle Investigator (ÖFSE)
Ecological Economist and Environmental System Scientist, Facilitator, Senior Researcher, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Socio-ecological transformation, sustainable lifestyles, socio-economic aspects of climate change
Emaili.omann@oefse.at

Bernd Klauer

Bernd Klauer

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Project Role: Principle Investigator (UFZ)
Head of the Working Group Social Science Water Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Social sciences water research, sustainability
Emailbernd.klauer@ufz.de

Erik Gawel

Erik Gawel

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Project Role: Co-Principle Investigator (UFZ)
Head, Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Head, Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management, University of Leipzig, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Economics of water resources, energy and environmental economics
Emailerik.gawel@ufz.de

Sigrun Kabisch

 

Sigrun Kabisch

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Project Role: Co-Principle Investigator (UFZ)
Head, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Urban sociology, development, sustainability
Emailsigrun.kabisch@ufz.de

Yoshi Wada

Yoshi Wada

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Project Role: Principle Investigator (IIASA)
Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director of the Water Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Large-scale hydrologic simulation, climate change, and agricultural water use
Emailwada@iiasa.ac.at

Research Team Members

Christian Klassert

Christian Klassert

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Project Role: Research Economist (UFZ)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Economics

Areas of Research: Agent-based computational economics, environmental policy
Email: christian.klassert@ufz.de

Raphael Karutz

Raphael Karutz

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Project Role: Researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Urban transformations and sustainable development
Email: raphael.karutz@ufz.de

Heinrich  Zozmann

Heinrich Zozmann

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Project Role: Doctoral student (UFZ)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Environmental economics, sustainable development, agent-based and multi-agent modelling
Email: heinrich.zozmann@ufz.de

Yuanzao  Zhu

Yuanzao Zhu

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Project Role: Doctoral student (UFZ) Helmoltz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Environmental economics, econometric analysis, demand estimation
Email: yuanzao.zhu@ufz.de

Annegret Kindler

Annegret Kindler

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Project Role: Cartography and GIS analyst (UFZ)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Urban transformations and land-use change
Email: annegret.kindler@ufz.de

Ankun Wang

Ankun Wang

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Project Role: Doctoral Student, Stanford
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Areas of Research: Systems Model Integration
Email: ankunwang@stanford.edu

Ju Young Lee

Ju Young Lee

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Project Role: Doctoral Student (Stanford)
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Areas of Research: Multi-agent modeling, political economy
Email: ljuyoung@stanford.edu

Irene Garousi-Nejad

Irene Garousi-Nejad

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Project Role: Hydrologist (Stanford)
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Areas of Research: Hydrologic Modeling, Floods and Drought 
Email: igarousi@stanford.edu

Peter Burek

Peter Burek

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Project Role: Senior Research Scientist, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Hydrologic modeling and climate change
Email: burek@iiasa.ac.at

Mikhail Smilovic

Mikhail Smilovic

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Project Role: Post-Doctoral Researcher (IIASA)
Research Scholar in Water Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Agricultural modeling and water consumption
Email: smilovic@iiasa.ac.at

Taher Kahil

Taher Kahil

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Project Role: Research Scholar in Water Program (IIASA), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Agricultural economics
Email: kahil@iiasa.ac.at

Luca Guillaumot

Luca Guillaumot

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Project Role: Research Scholar, Water Security Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Groundwater modelling
Email: guillaumot@iiasa.ac.at

Hannes Grohs

Hannes Grohs

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Project Role: Graduate Student, Research Assistant
Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Economics and development studies
Email: H.Grohs@oefse.at

Rohan Gulati

Rohan Gulati

Project Role: High School Intern working with the FUSE project

Areas of Research: Flood analysis using machine learning
Email: rohang1215@gmail.com


Alumni

Ann-Christine Link

Ann-Christine Link

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Project Role: Graduate student, Master Thesis, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: migration; resilience conceptualization and quantification
Email: ann-christine.link@ufz.de

Jasmin Heilemann

Jasmin Heilemann

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Project Role: Graduate student, Research Assistant, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Sustainable development, resource management, scenario analysis
Email: jasmin.heilemann@ufz.de

Linda Maiwald

Linda Maiwald

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Project Role: Graduate student, Master Thesis, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Water and energy nexus footprint modelling
Email: linda.maiwald@ufz.de

Laura Warnecke

Laura Warnecke

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Project Role: Graduate student, Research Assistant, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Economic, energy modeling
Email: laura.warnecke@ufz.de

Helen Mayer

Helen Mayer

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Project Role: Bachelor student; TU Dresden Bachelor Thesis, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Hydro-economic aspects of access to piped water
Email: helen-rebecca.mayer@ufz.de

Forrest Kluson

Forrest Kluson

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Project Role: Graduate student, Master Thesis, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Urbanization Modelling (SLEUTH)
Email: forrest-rafael.kluson@ufz.de

Fritz Kühlein

Fritz Kühlein

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Project Role: Graduate student, Intern, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Piped water supply network modeling
Email: fritz.kuehlein@ufz.de

Tom Stadler

Tom Stadler

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Project Role: Graduate student, Intern, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Economics, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Commercial Demand Estimation
Email: tom.stadler@ufz.de

Joni Dib

Joni Dib

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Project Role: Former Researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany

Areas of Research: Regional development, urban planning

Abraham Ishan Elmir

Abraham Ishan Elmir

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Project Role: Summer Intern, newly graduated undergraduate (Environmental Science), University of North Carolina, Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering (SURGE) program, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University

Areas of Research: Analysis of droughts, Pune, India

Hassaan Kahn

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Project Role: Former Postdoctoral Researcher (Stanford) - now at Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan

Areas of Research: Multi-agent and hydro-economic modeling

Shridhar Athinarayanan

Shridhar Athinarayanan

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Project Role: Summer Intern - Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research (SESUR) program, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University (Major in Mathematical and Computational Science)

Areas of Research: Piped water equity analysis in Pune, India

Anjuli Jain Figueroa

Anjuli Jain Figueroa

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Project Role: Former Post-Doctoral Researcher (Stanford)
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Areas of Research: Multi-agent and hydroeconomic modeling

Diana Luna Gonzalez​

Diana Luna Gonzalez​

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Project Role: Research Assistant, Water Security Research Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria

Areas of Research: Agricultural optimization
Email: luna@iiasa.ac.at