I am Associate Professor at the TU Wien (Austria), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resource Systems. I received my Ph.D. in Civil Engineering under the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems in 2012. My research objective is an improved understanding of the flow and contaminant transport processes in groundwater and at the surface – subsurface interface, and to develop predictive models to support water safety planning.

In joint interdisciplinary efforts, I developed a combined modelling-monitoring approach aligned to the “catchment-to-tap” principle by the WHO to support sustainable drinking water safety planning along rivers. Global changes such as increases in climate extremes, population growth, urbanization, and landuse changes threaten the future availability of safe groundwater and drinking water resources. My further aim is to understand the effects of global changes on groundwater resources, and to explore the efficiency of measures and methods to mitigate these effects.

My research activity has been focused on subsurface flow and contaminant transport dynamics in the unsaturated and saturated soil, river-groundwater interaction, and water safety assessment. I am also Coordinator of the Research Center Water and Health at TU Wien which is part of the ICC Water and Health, opens an external URL in a new window, and serve as member of the European Geosciences Union, the National Committee for Geo-/Hydrosciences of the Austrian Academy of Science, as Board member of the Austrian Hydrological Society (ÖGH), and as member of several groundwater related expert groups of the Austrian Associations for wastewater and drinking water (ÖWAV, ÖVGW).