Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wagener

Picture Thorsten Wagener
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for the Analysis of Hydrologic Systems, Group Head
University of Potsdam
Institute for Environmental Science and Geography

Campus Golm, Haus 1
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm

thorsten.wagener@uni-potsdam.de

+49 (0) 331 977 230137

 

Research Focus

Hydrological Modelling: Development of models of the water cycle from catchment to global scales.

Diagnostic Evaluation: Development of strategies for model evaluation that enable iterative model improvement and increase process realism.

Uncertainty Attribution: Development of methods to attribute all sources of uncertainty in the modelling process (incl. parameters, forcing and assumptions)

 

Achievements, Honours and Recognitions

John Dalton Medal, European Geosciences Union

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Projects

Discovering Scale-appropriate Functional Relationships and Process Controls in Complex Earth System Data
— Principal Investigator, Contact person
Characterisation of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
— PhD Students and Postdocs
Small-scale variability during unfolding of large-scale instabilities and their multi-scale impacts
— Associate
Recurrence-based multiscale-analysis
— PhD Students and Postdocs
Learning non-parametric Earth system models across scales using phase-transition dynamics of regularised deep neural networks
— PhD Students and Postdocs