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Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stahl

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University of Freiburg
Hydrology

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020

E-Mail: kerstin.stahl@hydrology.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2020

Curriculum Vitae

Kerstin Stahl has a DFG Heisenberg professorship of Environmental Hydrological Systems at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Before she returned to the university where she received her doctorate in 2001, she worked as a postdoc and research scientist at Oregon State University, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the University of Oslo in Norway. Kerstin teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programmes of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources and advises several graduate students and postdocs. Her research focuses on changes in hydrological systems, with an emphasis low flow and mountain hydrology and on drought hazard and risk assessment. Besides analysing trends and modelling changes in streamflow at regional scales, in the last years Kerstin and her group pioneered an approach of linking drought indicators to drought impacts sourced from text reports as a basis to inform drought early warning more effectively. Kerstin has a track-record on international and transdisciplinary research project leads on the topic of drought, including a Belmont Forum project and the current regional research alliance DRIeR. She also coordinates a collaborative project on the future of the River Rhine, one of the most important transboundary rivers in Europe. Kerstin has been an Editor of HESS for several years and currently serves as co-chair for the catchment hydrology programme of EGU.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project