Simon is a Doctoral Researcher in the "Terrestrial Safe Operating Space (TESS)" working group in RD1, supervised by Prof. Johan Rockström and Dr. Lan Wang-Erlandsson (Stockholm Resilience Centre). His research focuses on global water flows through atmospheric moisture tracking and complex network analysis. He began his PhD within the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), quantifying atmospheric moisture flows between countries at a global scale, and has continued this work in the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab since October 2024.
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Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Simon holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science and Hydrology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and an M.Sc. in Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology with a specialization in Hydrology, Hydrogeology, and Water Resources from Stockholm University, Sweden. During his Master's studies, he worked as a research assistant with Prof. Fernando Jaramillo at the Department of Physical Geography and completed his thesis under the joint supervision of Prof. Jaramillo and Dr. Lan Wang-Erlandsson (Stockholm Resilience Centre), focusing on the global moisture sources of wetlands.
2025:
Elena De Petrillo, Simon Fahrländer, Marta Tuninetti et al. Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle, 29 April 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4177311/v1]Elena De Petrillo, Simon Fahrländer, Marta Tuninetti et al. Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle, 29 April 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4177311/vDe Petrillo, E., Fahrländer, S.F., Tuninetti, M., Andersen, L. S., Monaco, L., Ridolfi, L., & Laio, F. (2025). Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 347. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02289-y.
2024:
Fahrländer, S. F., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Pranindita, A., & Jaramillo, F. (2024). Hydroclimatic Vulnerability of Wetlands to Upwind Land Use Changes. Earth's Future, 12(3): e2023EF003837. doi:10.1029/2023EF003837.
2023:
Rockström, J., Mazzucato, M., Andersen, L., Fahrländer, S. F., & Gerten, D. (2023). Why we need a new economics of water as a common good. Nature, 615(7954), 794-797. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00800-z .
