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Associate Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. tech. Julia Derx has been assigned to the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Engineering Hydrology (E222) at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering as Associate Professor of Groundwater Management since December 1, 2024.

Julia Derx comes from Vienna and studied civil engineering with a specialization in water and resource efficiency and hydrometry at TU Wien. During her studies, she spent two periods abroad, both in the USA at the Colorado School of Mines and in Australia at the University of Queensland. In 2012, she obtained her doctorate at TU Wien with a dissertation on "Virus and organic carbon removal during bank filtration : the effects of changing hydraulic conditions of large rivers, opens an external URL in a new window", and her dissertation was awarded the 2012 Ressel Prize for the best interdisciplinary doctoral thesis at TU Wien. This was followed by research activities as a postdoc and senior scientist at TU Wien and for the ICC, opens an external URL in a new window Water & Health (the Interuniversity Cooperation Center Water and Health between TU Wien, MedUni Vienna and Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences). In 2020, she was offered a career position in groundwater management, which she has now successfully completed by qualifying as an Associate Professor. In 2024, she also obtained the Venia Docendi for the subject "Groundwater Management" with a habilitation thesis on "Understanding the impact of global changes and management measures on the microbiological water quality and safety in river basins"

Julia Derx's scientific home is the research area of engineering hydrology (E222-02) at the aforementioned institute. There she deals with topics such as flow and transport processes in the unsaturated and saturated soil zone, interactions of rivers with groundwater and the assessment of water safety.

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