RAMSES - Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and
Sustainable Development
in Cities. FP7 Integrated project, PIK part: 694,000
€).
2011 - 2013
TransRisk - Transition Options and Climate Risks for
Developing Countries. Joint Project with GIZ (Methods Inventory for
Adaptation) (Federal Ministry for the Environment, PIK part: 689,000
€).
2011 - 2012
UBA-Cost - Adaptation Options in the Context of an
International Climate Protection Regime (German Eviromental Agency, PIK
part: 55,000 €).
2010 - 2013
AsianCitiesAdapt - Climate change adaptation and
transition to sustainability in South-East Asian Cities(Federal Ministry for the Environment, PIK part: 344,000
€).
2009 - 2012
KIBEX - Critical Infrastructure and population in the
light of climate change related extreme events(Federal Ministry for the Interior, PIK part: 85,000 €).
2010 - 2013
MEDIATION - Methodology for Effective Decision-making on
Impacts and Adaptation(Joint Project funded
by the EU Framework 7th, PIK part: 296,000 €).
2009 - 2012
Climate Media & Film Factory Potsdam (pilot phase
2009-2010) - Joint project together with the Film and TV Academy Konrad
Wolf, Potsdam Babelsberg (Joint Project funded by the BMBF, PIK part
30,000 €, pilot phase, main phase 2010-2012: starting soon).
2009 - 2014
PROGRESS - Potsdam Research Cluster on Georisk Analysis,
Environmental Change and Sustainability, The research cluster is part
of the ''Top Level Research and Innovation Program'' overall funded by
approx. 11m €. The NSP group hosts the subproject D1 ''Systemanalytical
Approaches in Risk Assessment''. This subproject deals with a
systematic analysis of city systems, criteria for risk resilient
infrastructure, information transfer, and the development of new tools
for decision making. (Joint Project
Federal Ministry or Education and Research, PIK part: 1.3 Mio €, NSP
group 590,000 €).
2009 - 2011
ESPON Climate - Climate change, spatial planning and
territorial effects on regions and local economies(Joint Project funded by the EU ESPON programme, PIK
part: 98,000 €).
2009 - 2012
BaltCICA - Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation
in the Baltic Sea Region (Joint Project funded by the INTERREG Baltic
Sea Region Programme, PIK part: 520,500 €).
2008 - 2010
Saxony-Anhalt-Study: Small Scale Vulnerabilities and
Adaptation to Climate Change (Funded by the Environmental Agency
Saxony-Anhalt, 126,000 €).
2008 - 2011
CI:grasp - Global Climate Impact and Adaptation
Information System (Funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment;
Joint project together with GTZ Climate Protection Programme, Focus
regions: India, China, Brazil and Southern Africa, 1 Mio. €, PIK part).
2008 - 2009
NRWII - Vulnerabilities and Development of Adaptation
Options for the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia, (Funded by the
Ministry of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer
Protection, 107,000 €)
2008 - 2010
ENSURE - Enhancing Resilience of Communities and
Territories against Risks. ( Funded by EC, European Joint Project FRP7,
128,447 €, German part).
2007 - 2010
ACCMA - Enabling stakeholders in Moroccan coastal
management to develop sustainable climate change adaptation policies
and plans. (Funded by IDRC's Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Program 73,000 €, German part).
2006 - 2007
SCENARIO - Specific support action for a common European
Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazard
mitigation (Funded by European Commission FRP6: 88,000 €).
2005 - 2007
ASTRA - Developing Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies
to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims to
anticipate ill-defined (local) management strategies by modern model
techniques. Subsequent improved policy options shall be developed and
implemented in certain case studies (Funded by European Commission
Development Programme INTERREG IIIB: 245,000 €).
2004 - 2007
ARMONIA: Applied Multi-Risk Mapping of Natural Hazards
for Impact Assessment - ARMONIA aims to provide a set of harmonized
methodologies for producing integrated risk maps to achieve spatial
planning procedures in areas prone to natural disasters (Funded by
European Commission FRP6: 94,000 €).
2002 - 2005
Scaling Analysis of Hydrometeorological Time Series Data
- The project has the goal to improve multi-variate methods for extreme
value statistics and fluctuation analysis and apply them to
hydrometeorological time series data (Funded by Federal Ministry:
643,000 €).
1998 - 2001
DIWA - Data Integration and
Qualitative Dynamics in the Wadden Sea. DIWA deals with the integration
of the huge knowledge available for the wadden sea and tries to
integrate it via modern data mining methods (Funded by Federal
Ministry: 233,000 €).
Led Projects/Memberships
since 2008
Head of the North-South Focal Point at PIK comprising 30
scientists, (including PostDocs, PhD students, M.Sc. candidates, and
internships)
2004 - 2007
COMPROMISE: Conflict Resolution, Management and Problem
Solving for a Sustainable Resource Utilization -- (Project Leader): A
project that aims to study of vulnerability of regions where renewable
resources are extensively utilized. By introducing new concepts of
knowledge integration comprising stakeholder dialogues as well as smart
methods from information sciences development alternatives for
transition to sustainability are evolved and assessed (internal PIK
project).
2004 - 2007
Q3: Bridging Qualitative, semi-Quantitative and
Quantitative knowledge for modeling -- (Member): Development and
improvement of methods combining qualitative and semi-quantitative
knowledge in homogeneous modeling approaches.
2004 - 2007
UP-RACE: Uncertainty, Prediction, and Risk Assessment of
Critical Events -- (Project Leader): Main target of the project is to
distill inherent features from hydro-meteorological time series data
(e.g. correlation, persistence) in order to develop early warning
indicators for climate and hydrological change and subsequently for
risk assessment (Internal PIK project).
2004/2005
HEATWAVE 2003 Activity -- (Project Leader):
Cross-sectoral assessment of the impact of the summer heat-wave 2003
over Europe (PIK internal activity).
2001 - 2003
SYNAPSE: Syndrome Assessment and Policy Strategy
Evolution -- (Member): This project is based on the Syndrome's Approach
(see below) and sought to recognize basic pattern of (un)sustainable
developments through a portfolio of methods ranging from GIS, fuzzy
logic to qualitative modeling and case study integration.
2001 - 2003
QUIS Qualitative Intelligence Service -- (Member): A
project that develops and improves of methods of qualitative and
semi-quantitative modeling techniques for integrated assessment.
1994 - 1998
QUESTIONS: An Expert System on Global Change: Qualitative
Dynamics of Syndromes and Transition to Sustainability -- (Member): The
project followed a new and transsectoral way to provide a comprehensive
overview of Global Change by classifying the vast number of trends,
processes, interactions, and feedbacks to pattern of human-environment
interaction. The local proneness and sensitivity against serious
developments is derived via fuzzy-logic decision trees.
1996 - 1998
Global Change: GIS-based Detection and Modeling of the
Dynamics of Syndromes -- (Member): A GIS based easy-to-grasp
methodology provided an overview on the entire problem known as Global
Change. It was tried to obtain geographically explicit assessments of
the occurrence of archetypical patterns of human-civilization
interactions
1992 - 1997
Methods for Integrated Systems Analysis -- (Member):
Testing the areas of applicability of new methods from nonlinear
physics and computational sciences (neural networks, expert systems,
qualitative reasoning, decision networks, belief networks) with respect
to the specific needs of environmental research.
Research Supervision
PhDs & candidates Christian
Pape,
PhD
candidate
in
Physics Markus
Böttle, PhD candidate in Physics Tabea Lissner, PhD
candidate in Geography, Humboldt University, Berlin Prajal Pradhan,
PhD candidate in Geoecology, University of Potsdam Till Sterzel, PhD
candidate in Geography Boris Prahl, PhD
candidate in Physics Tobias Weiss, PhD
candidate in Information Sciences/Physics Olivia Roithmeyer,
PhD candidate in Geography Anne Holsten, PhD
candidate in Geoecology, University of Potsdam Mady Olonscheck,
PhD candidate in Physical Geography, University of
Potsdam Luis
Costa-Carvalho, PhD candidate in Geography, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt
University Greifswald Vera Tekken:
PhD candidate in Geography, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald Henning Rust:
PhD in Physics, 2007, University of
Potsdam: Detection of Long-Range
Dependence: Applications in Climatology and Hydrology Malaak
Kallache: PhD in Geosciences
2007, University of Bayreuth: Trends
and
Extreme
Values
of River Discharge Time Series. Klaus
Eisenack: PhD in Mathematics
2006, Free University of Berlin: Model Ensembles for Natural Resource
Management. Ralf
Haussels: PhD in Mathematics 2000, University of Oldenburg: Simulation
of geobiological processes in
porous media by cellular automaton machines
MSc./BSc. & candidates
Anto
Dominic Raphael (2011): Evaluation of meteorological fire risk
indices for German states. MSc. in Forest Information and Technology,
Eberswalde University for Applied Sciences Dennis Möller
(2011): Einfluss von Grosswetterlagen auf das
Sturmflutverhalten in der Ostsee. MSc. in Geography, University of Bonn Nele Protze, MSc.
in Geography 2010 , Free University of Berlin: Die
räumliche
Ausprägung der Hitzevulnerabilität städtischer
Bevölkerung im Rahmen des globalen Klimawandels - Beispiel Berlin Cornelius Senf,
BSc. in Geography 2010,
Humboldt University Berlin: Possible future
impacts on human health in urban areas: Heat waves in Berlin Marcus Klaus, BSc.
in Geography 2010, Humboldt University, Assessing
potential
impact of winter storms on North-Rhine Westphalian forests Mady Olonschek,
MSc.
in Geography 2010, Humboldt University, Berlin: Development of Future
Heating and Cooling
Demand on Households in Germany under Climate Change. Tabea Lissner:
M.Sci.
in Geography 2008, Humboldt University, Berlin: Vulnerability Analysis
for North-Rhine
Westphalia - Climate Impacts on Human Health. Tobias
Sperr: MSc. in Environmental Sciences 2002, University of Oldenburg:
Neuro-fuzzy methods in environmental
systems analysis Klaus
Eisenack: MSc. in Mathematics
2001, University of Oldenburg: Modeling under uncertainty: qualitative
differential equations in bio-economics. Frank
Ahlhorn: MSc. in Mathematics 1999, University of Oldenburg: Management
of freshwater resources using
qualitative differential equations. Udo Schnurpfeil:
MSc. in Mathematics
1989, University of Oldenburg: Using
fragmentary data by self-organizing maps.
