Dr. Juliane Mai

Postdoctoral researcher
Group of Regional Ecophysiology
Department Computational Hydrosystems (CHS)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ
Email
Phone
Fax
Address
juliane.mai@ufz.de
0341 235 1890
0341 235 1939
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Research topics
- Modeling distribution and interaction of contaminants in cellular environments
- Parameter inversion and sensitivity analysis of biological systems
- Modeling the impact of environmental chemicals on immune cell differentiation
- Inversion of soil hydraulic properties using parametric soil water retention models (cooperation with Dr. Gerrit de Rooij, UFZ Leipzig)
- In-situ water content determination using frequency domain modeling and layered media spectra (cooperation with Dr. Jan Bumberger, UFZ Leipzig)
- Calibration and uncertainty estimation of the mesocale hydrologic model (mHM)
- Multi-objective calibration of complex models (cooperation with Prof. Bryan Tolson and Dr. Mahyar Shafii)
- Parameter screening and sensitivity analyses of hydrologic models (mHM) and land surface models (CLM, Noah-MP)
- Member of UFZ Working group on "Inverse modeling and optimization"
Scientific Career
2001 - 2005
Study of Business Mathematics (Diploma)
University of Applied Sciences HTWK Leipzig
Topic:
Zielorientierte Selektion von Vergangenheitsdaten zur Verbesserung der Qualitätsplanung in der Halbzeugfertigung
2005 - 2007
Study of Applied Mathematics (Master)
University of Applied Sciences HTWK Leipzig
Topic:
Nutzung von Computertomographie-Daten zur Modellierung einer knöchernen Struktur
2007 - 2011
PhD student
Department Computational Hydrosystems
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Topic:
From environmental contaminants to cellular response: A 3D approach to model the distribution and interaction of contaminants in living cells.
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since 2011
Postdoctoral researcher
Department Computational Hydrosystems
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Topic:
Develop methods and codes for parameter inversion and parameter reduction of complex models
10/2015 - 12/2015
Visiting Scientist
Bryan Tolson's Lab
University of Waterloo, Canada
Topic:
Multi-objective calibration of a hydrologic model
Publications
Are assumptions about the model type necessary in reaction-diffusion modeling? A FRAP application
Biophys. J. 100 (5), 1178 - 1188
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Transcriptional signatures of regulatory and toxic responses to benzo-[a]-pyrene exposure
BMC Genomics 12 , art. 502
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Use of eigendecomposition in a parameter sensitivity analysis of the Community Land Model
J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosci. 118 (2), 904 - 921
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Parameter importance in FRAP acquisition and analysis: a simulation approach
Biophys. J. 104 (9), 2089 - 2097
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Kinetic control of contaminant release from NAPLs – Information potential of concentration time profiles
Environ. Pollut. 179 , 301 - 314
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Stochastic temporal disaggregation of monthly precipitation for regional gridded data sets
Water Resour. Res. 50 (11), 8714 - 8735
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Computationally inexpensive identification of noninformative model parameters by sequential screening
Water Resour. Res. 51 (8), 6417 - 6441
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Seasonal soil moisture drought prediction over Europe using the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)
J. Hydrometeorol. 16 (6), 2329 - 2344
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The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model
J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 121 (18), 10676 - 10700
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Multiscale evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index as a groundwater drought indicator
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20 (3), 1117 - 1131
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Der Dürremonitor – Aktuelle Information zur Bodenfeuchte in Deutschland
In: Wernecke, G., Ebner von Eschenbach, A.-D., Strunck, Y., Kirschbauer, L., Müller, A. (Hrsg.)
Wasserressourcen – Wissen im Flussgebieten vernetzen. Beiträge zum Tag der Hydrologie am 17./18. März 2016 in Koblenz, ausgerichtet von der Hochschule Koblenz und der Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde
Forum für Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung 37
Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall (DWA), Hennef, S. 131 - 142
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The importance of topography-controlled sub-grid process heterogeneity and semi-quantitative prior constraints in distributed hydrological models
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20 (3), 1151 - 1176
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Multiscale and multivariate evaluation of water fluxes and states over European river basins
J. Hydrometeorol. 17 (1), 287 - 307
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Extending Theis' solution: Using transient pumping tests to estimate parameters of aquifer heterogeneity
Water Resour. Res. 52 (8), 6156 - 6170
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The German drought monitor
Environ. Res. Lett. 11 (7), art. 074002
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Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (10), 5009 - 5030
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Spatial retrieval of broadband dielectric spectra
Sensors 18 (9), art. 2780
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Combining satellite data and appropriate objective functions for improved spatial pattern performance of a distributed hydrologic model
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1299 - 1315
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Parametric soil water retention models: a critical evaluation of expressions for the full moisture range
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1193 - 1219
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Dielectric spectra reconstruction of layered multi-phase soil
In: Skierucha, W. (ed.)
Proceedings; 2018 12th International Conference on Electromagnetic Wave Interaction with Water and Moist Substances (ISEMA), Lublin, Poland, 4-7 June 2018
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 106 - 109
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Conditioning a hydrologic model using patterns of remotely sensed land surface temperature
Water Resour. Res. 54 (4), 2976 - 2998
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A national scale planning tool for agricultural droughts in Germany
In: Friesen, J., Rodríguez-Sinobas, L. (eds.)
Advanced tools for integrated water resources management
Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection 3
Elsevier, p. 147 - 169
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Ten strategies towards successful calibration of environmental models
J. Hydrol. 620, Part A , art. 129414
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Conference Papers
- Mai, J., S. Attinger (2008). Modeling Motion of Contaminant BaP in Cytoplasm. Fifth International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology - WCSB 2008 - Leipzig, Germany. 11-13/06/2008 Paper_WCSB_2008.pdf (116 KB)
- Mai, J., S. Trump, S. Attinger (2009). Analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics by atificial and real FRAP data. Sixth International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology - WCSB 2009 - Aarhus, Denmark. 10-12/06/2009 Paper_WCSB_2009.pdf (356 KB)
Talks
- Mai, J., G. Wittum, S. Attinger (2008). The BaP-AhR-pathway: Spatio-temporal dynamics of the receptor-ligand-complex. Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology Status Seminar, Potsdam, Germany. 24/06/2008
- Mai, J., S. Trump, R. Ali, T. Hanke, I. Lehmann, S. Attinger (2011). Imaging in Systems Biology. Contaminants In The Environment CITE, Leipzig, Germany. 05/04/2011
- Mai, J., S. Trump, R. Ali, G. Hager, T. Hanke, I. Lehmann, S. Attinger (2011). Modeling spatio-temporal dynamics within living cells. SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, Milano, Italy. 16/05/2011.
- Mai, J., M. Cuntz, L. Samaniego, D. Schäfer (2014). Parameter sensitivity estimation: The different information in derivative- and variance-based methods. EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. 28/04-02/05/2014
- Mai, J., M. Cuntz, M. Shafii, M. Zink, D. Schaefer, S. Thober, L. Samaniego, and B. Tolson (2016). Single-objective vs. multi-objective calibration of a hydrologic model using single- and multi-objective screening. EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. 17-22/04/2016
- Mai, J., M. Cuntz, L. Samaniego, D. Schaefer. Computationally inexpensive identification of noninformative model parameters. REKLIM workshop, Merseburg, Germany. 27-29/04/2016
- Mai, J., M. Shafii, M. Cuntz, B. Tolson. Multi-objective vs. single objective calibration of a hydrologic model exploring the benefit of hydrologic signatures. CMWR, Toronto, Canada. 20-24/06/2016
Poster Presentations
Please find a selection of my posters here.