Team

Head
Fleckenstein, Prof. Dr. JanFleckenstein, Prof. Dr. Jan 0341 6025 1207 0341 6025 1207 jan.fleckenstein@ufz.de

Deputy
Musolff, Dr. AndreasMusolff, Dr. Andreas 0341 6025 1983 0341 6025 1983 andreas.musolff@ufz.de
Schmidt, Dr. ChristianSchmidt, Dr. Christian 0341 6025 2408 0341 6025 2408 christian.schmidt@ufz.de

Secretariat
Wüst, JetteWüst, Jette 0341 6025 1253 0341 6025 1253 jette.wuest@ufz.de

Academic Staff
Ebeling, Dr. PiaEbeling, Dr. Pia 0341 6025 2212 0341 6025 2212 pia.ebeling@ufz.de
Falchi Bernardo, ViniciusFalchi Bernardo, Vinicius 0341 6025 4869 0341 6025 4869 vinicius.falchi-bernardo@ufz.de
Nguyen, Dr.-Ing. Van TamNguyen, Dr.-Ing. Van Tam 0341 6025 1069 0341 6025 1069 tam.nguyen@ufz.de

Guest Scientists
Heidbüchel, Dr. IngoHeidbüchel, Dr. Ingo 0341 6025 1984 0341 6025 1984 ingo.heidbuechel@ufz.de
Jähkel, AnneJähkel, Anne 0341 6025 3974 0341 6025 3974 anne.jaehkel@ufz.de
Ledesma, Dr. phil. JoseLedesma, Dr. phil. Jose 0341 6025 2786 0341 6025 2786 jose.ledesma@ufz.de
Yang, Dr. JieYang, Dr. Jie 0341 6025 2022 0341 6025 2022 jie.yang@ufz.de

PhD Students
Hubig, AlexanderHubig, Alexander 0341 6025 2541 0341 6025 2541 alexander.hubig@ufz.de
Lei, ChaoLei, Chao 0341 6025 2785 0341 6025 2785 chao.lei@ufz.de
Rimi, Shabiha SultanaRimi, Shabiha Sultana 0341 6025 1014 0341 6025 1014 shabiha.sultana-rimi@ufz.de
Schauer, LinusSchauer, Linus 0341 6025 2787 0341 6025 2787 linus.schauer@ufz.de

Technicians
Keller, ToralfKeller, Toralf 0341 6025 1982 0341 6025 1982 toralf.keller@ufz.de

Alumni
*Scientists*
Dr. Guilherme Emidio Horta Nogueira Groundwater Management Department, Deltares, Utrecht guilherme.nogueira@deltares.nl
Seifeddine Jomaa
Dr. Marie J. Kurz
Dr. Stefanie Lutz Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University
Dr. Marieke Oosterwoud
Michael Vieweg
Assoc. Prof. Jie Yang Hohai University, China E-Mail
Dr. Zhi-Yuan Zhang China University of Geosciences, Beijing E-Mail

PhD

Arianna Borriero

Tanja Brandt

Joni Dehaspe

Franz Dichgans

Vinicius Ferreira Boico

Dr. Sophie Ehrhardt
Gesundheitsforen Leipzig
E-Mail

Dr. Guilherme Emidio Horta Nogueira
Groundwater Management Department, Deltares, Utrecht
guilherme.nogueira@deltares.nl

Anne Jähkel
Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und Klimaschutz, Referat Stabilisierung Landschaftswasserhaushalt und Gewässerentwicklung, Potsdam
E-Mail

Óscar Jiménez Fernández

Xiaohua Huang
Sichuan University
E-Mail

Gerrit Laube

Dr. Stefanie Lutz
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University

Benedikt Werner

Dr. Carolin Winter-Schnabel
Universität Freiburg
E-Mail

News

M. Bayani Cardenas visits UFZ

Birdsall-Dreiss distinguished lecturer M. Bayani Cardenas visited UFZ Leipzig on the 30th June 2025.

Portrait Bayani Cardenas M. Bayani Cardenas is a hydrology professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research seeks to understand flow and transport processes across different hydrologic settings, water quality and quantity problems, and scales, using a combination of theoretical, computational, and observational methods.

Around 35 people attended his lecture “Insights on groundwater renewability from age and residence time analysis” in the UFZ lecture hall in person or online. Before his lecture, the hydrogeology team had the opportunity for an extensive professional exchange. We would like to thank Bayani Cardenas very much for his visit and the time he took for us.

Long Night of Sciences Leipzig: Get to the bottom of groundwater

The Department of Hydrogeology took part in the Long Night of Sciences on 20.06.2025 with an experience stand where interested parties could use food coloring to test how pollutants spread in groundwater. Many people of all ages and professional backgrounds took the opportunity for scientific exchange with the HDG team and the other participating departments and institutions. Read more

Team HDG mit Erlebnis-Stand

Conference contributions

EGU General Assembly 2025

Vienna, Austria, (DATE)

Ebeling, Pia: Trends in Instream Nitrogen-to-Phosphorus Ratios: A 30-Year Study of Ecological Relevance Across 750 Catchments

Chao Lei: Spatial variability and temporal changes in inter-catchment groundwater flow across the contiguous United States

José L. J. Ledesma: Drivers of stream and riparian hydrological responses to rainfall events in forest headwater catchments across ecoregions

Linus Schauer: Controls of space-time variance of water chemistry in river networks

AGU Fall Meeting 2024

9-13 December 2024, Washington

AGU24. What's next for science?

Poster: Schauer, L.: H31Q - Leveraging Sensor Technologies, Networks, and Tools to Rethink Space-Time Dynamics in River Water Quality

Further conference contributions

New Publications

Coder, L., Musolff, A., Kronsbein, P.M., Knöller, K., Büttner, O., Rinke, K., Tittel, J. (2025):
How anthropogenic modification of riverscapes reduces the resilience of floodplain water bodies to drought
Ecol. Eng.

Ebeling, P. (2025):
Groundwater droughts data for 6626 wells in Germany
HydroShare

Schauer, L.S., Jawitz, J.W., Cohen, M.J., Musolff, A. (2025):
Spatial and temporal variability of river water quality
Hydrol. Process.

Ledesma, J.L.J., Musolff, A., Sponseller, R., Lupon, A., Peñarroya, X., Jativa, C., Bernal, S. (2025):
The Riparian Zone controls headwater hydrology and biogeochemistry, doesn't It? Reassessing linkages across European ecoregions
Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles

Duong, T.D., Tran, V.N., Nguyen, V.T. (2025):
Evaluating rainfall-runoff generation mechanisms of deep learning models using a process-based rainfall-runoff model
Water Resour. Manag.

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