Dr. Stefanie R. Lutz
Contact
Department of Hydrogeology
UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Deutschland
phone +49 (0) 341 235 1996

Research focus
- Hydrological modelling
- Isotope hydrology
- Diffuse river pollution and solute transport
- Water quality at catchment scale
- Impact of changing climate on semi-arid catchments
Academic background
since 12/2018
Postdoc in the Department of Hydrogeology at the UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2015-2018
Postdoc in the Department Catchment Hydrology at the UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Project: GLOBAQUA - Analysis of the effects of water scarcity on multiple stressors in selected catchments
2011-2014
PhD student at the VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Project: CSI:ENVIRONMENT Initial Training Network - FP7 Marie Curie Action
2004-2010
Studies of Applied System Science at the University of Osnabrück (Germany)
2008
Exchange trimester at the Université de Montréal (Canada)
Publications
Index:
2023 (1)2022 (4)
2021 (2)
2020 (1)
2019 (1)
2018 (5)
2017 (1)
2016 (1)
You could use our publication index for further requests.
2023 (1)
- Winter, C., Nguyen, V.T., Musolff, A., Lutz, S.R., Rode, M., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2023):
Droughts can reduce the nitrogen retention capacity of catchments
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 27 (1), 303 - 318
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2022 (4)
- Ebeling, P., Kumar, R., Lutz, S.R., Nguyen, V.T., Sarrazin, F., Weber, M., Büttner, O., Attinger, S., Musolff, A. (2022):
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 14 (8), 3715 - 3741
full text (doi) - Lutz, S.R., Ebeling, P., Musolff, A., Nguyen, V.T., Sarrazin, F., Van Meter, K.J., Basu, N.B., Fleckenstein, J.H., Attinger, S., Kumar, R. (2022):
Pulling the rabbit out of the hat: Unravelling hidden nitrogen legacies in catchment-scale water quality models
Hydrol. Process. 36 (10), e14682
full text (doi) - Nguyen, V.T., Kumar, R., Musolff, A., Lutz, S.R., Sarrazin, F., Attinger, S., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2022):
Disparate seasonal nitrate export from nested heterogeneous subcatchments revealed with StorAge Selection functions
Water Resour. Res. 58 (3), e2021WR030797
full text (doi) - Winter, C., Tarasova, L., Lutz, S.R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2022):
Explaining the variability in high-frequency nitrate export patterns using long-term hydrological event classification
Water Resour. Res. 58 (1), e2021WR030938
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2021 (2)
- Nguyen, V.T., Kumar, R., Lutz, S.R., Musolff, A., Yang, J., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2021):
Modeling nitrate export from a mesoscale catchment using StorAge selection functions
Water Resour. Res. 57 (2), e2020WR028490
full text (doi) - Winter, C., Lutz, S.R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Weber, M., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2021):
Disentangling the impact of catchment heterogeneity on nitrate export dynamics from event to long-term time scales
Water Resour. Res. 57 (1), e2020WR027992
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2020 (1)
- Lutz, S.R., Trauth, N., Musolff, A., van Breukelen, B.M., Knöller, K., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2020):
How important is denitrification in riparian zones? Combining end-member mixing and isotope modeling to quantify nitrate removal from riparian groundwater
Water Resour. Res. 56 (1), e2019WR025528
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2019 (1)
- Popp, A.L., Lutz, S.R., Khatami, S., van Emmerik, T.H.M., Knoben, W.J.M. (2019):
A global survey on the perceptions and impacts of gender inequality in the Earth and space sciences
Earth Space Sci. 6 (8), 1460 - 1468
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2018 (5)
- Diamantini, E., Lutz, S., Mallucci, S., Majone, B., Merz, R., Bellin, A. (2018):
Driver detection of water quality trends in three large European river basins
Sci. Total Environ. 612 , 49 - 62
full text (doi) - Herrero, A., Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C., Vigiak, O., Lutz, S., Kumar, R., Gampe, D., Huber-García, V., Ludwig, R., Batalla, R., Sabater, S. (2018):
Multiple stressor effects on biological quality elements in the Ebro River: Present diagnosis and predicted responses
Sci. Total Environ. 630 , 1608 - 1618
full text (doi) - Lutz, S.R., Krieg, R., Müller, C., Zink, M., Knöller, K., Samaniego, L., Merz, R. (2018):
Spatial patterns of water age: using young water fractions to improve the characterization of transit times in contrasting catchments
Water Resour. Res. 54 (7), 4767 - 4784
full text (doi) - Lutz, S.R., Popp, A., van Emmerik, T., Gleeson, T., Kalaugher, L., Möbius, K., Mudde, T., Walton, B., Hut, R., Savenije, H., Slater, L.J., Solcerova, A., Stoof, C.R., Zink, M. (2018):
HESS Opinions: Science in today's media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (7), 3589 - 3599
full text (doi) - Vigiak, O., Lutz, S., Mentzafou, A., Chiogna, G., Ye, T., Majone, B., Beck, H., de Roo, A., Malagó, A., Bouraoui, F., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Merz, R., Gamvroudis, C., Skoulikidis, N., Nikolaidis, N.P., Bellin, A., Acuňa, V., Mori, N., Ludwig, R., Pistocchi, A. (2018):
Uncertainty of modelled flow regime for flow-ecological assessment in Southern Europe
Sci. Total Environ. 615 , 1028 - 1047
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2017 (1)
- Lutz, S.R., van der Velde, Y., Elsayed, O.F., Imfeld, G., Lefrancq, M., Payraudeau, S., van Breukelen, B.M. (2017):
Pesticide fate on catchment scale: conceptual modelling of stream CSIA data
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (10), 5243 - 5261
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2016 (1)
- Lutz, S.R., Mallucci, S., Diamantini, E., Majone, B., Bellin, A., Merz, R. (2016):
Hydroclimatic and water quality trends across three Mediterranean river basins
Sci. Total Environ. 571 , 1392 - 1406
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Earlier publications
- Lutz, S. R. (2015) Isotopic Fingerprints of Organic Pollutants. Quantifying sources and sinks of organic pollutants with isotope analysis from aquifer to catchment scale. PhD Thesis, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 146 p.
- Lutz, S. R., Van Breukelen, B. M. (2014) Combined Source Apportionment and Degradation Quantification of Organic Pollutants with CSIA: 1. Model Derivation. Environmental Science & Technology 48, (11), 6220-6228.
- Lutz, S. R., Van Breukelen, B. M. (2014) Combined Source Apportionment and Degradation Quantification of Organic Pollutants with CSIA: 2. Model Validation and Application. Environmental Science & Technology 48, (11), 6229-6236.
- Lutz, S. R., van Meerveld, H. J., Waterloo, M. J., Broers, H. P., and van Breukelen, B. M. (2013) A model-based assessment of the potential use of compound-specific stable isotope analysis in river monitoring of diffuse pesticide pollution. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 4505-4524, doi:10.5194/hess-17-4505-2013.