Dr. Jan Friesen
Scientific Career
since 2020
Consultant, Coknow Consulting
2026
Deputy department head, Department Systemic Environmental Biotechnology (SUBT), UFZ
2023 - 2026
Head of Working Group „Water-sensitive infrastructure planning“, Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, UFZ
2021 - 2026
Scientist at the Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (UBZ), UFZ
2014 - 2021
Scientist at the Department of Catchment Hydrology (CATHYD), UFZ
2012 - 2014
Scientist in the working group Coordination and Integration of Water Sciences (CIWAS), UFZ
2009 - 2012
Scientist at the Department Computational Hydrosystems (CHS), UFZ
2004 - 2008
PhD degree in hydrology from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Thesis: "Regional vegetation water effects on satellite soil moisture estimations for West Africa"
2002 - 2004
Research assistant at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Bonn, Germany
2002
Degree (Dipl. Geogr.) in physical geography from the University of Bonn, Germany