Shabiha Sultana Rimi

Contact

Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Tel:+49 341 60251014

Curriculum Vitae

01/08/2023 - Present

01/02/2024 - 30/04/2025

PhD student at Department of Hydrogeology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Parental Leave

14/10/2020 - 22/05/2023

01/11/2022 - 31/03/2023

01/07/2023 - 31/07/2023

M.Sc in Hydro Science and Engineering at TU Dresden

Researcher at Institute of Ground Water Management, TU Dresden, Germany

Researcher at Chair of Hydrology, TU Dresden, Germany

01/09/2016 - 30/09/2020

Junior Engineer (Water Supply Engineer) Institute of Water Modelling, Bangladesh

26/02/2011 - 05/03/2016

B.Sc Engineering in Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh

Research interests

Hydrodynamic Modelling

Particle transport in Fluvial System

Surface Water Ground Water interaction

Awards

DAAD EPOS Scholarship for M.Sc in Hydro Science and Engineering at TU Dresden, Germany

Govt. Scholarship for outstanding results in Higher Secondary Grade, Bangladesh

News

Editors' Choice Award

Department head Jan Fleckenstein and department alum Franz Dichgans were awarded the Editors' Choice Award 2024 for their contribution to the paper Assessing the Behavior of Microplastics in Fluvial Systems: Infiltration and Retention Dynamics in Streambed Sediments, published in the journal Water Resources Research. Congratulations to all the award winners! Read the paper

Image of a certificate entitled Editors' Choice Award. The award winners are Jan-Pascal Boos, Franz Dichgans, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Benjamin Silas Gilfedder, and Sven Frei.

Conference contributions

EGU General Assembly 2026

Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026

Musolff, Andreas: Hydroclimatic extremes reveal shifting nitrogen export behavior from catchments

Falchi Bernardo, Vinícius: Modeling nitrate remediation in groundwater using CH₄/H₂ gas injections

Fleckenstein, Jan: Groundwater – surface water interactions revisited

Ebeling, Pia: QUADICA v2: Expanded large-sample water quality data for Germany offer new opportunities for cross-catchment analyses

Nguyen, Tam: How do anthropogenic activities affect key hydrological indicators in German catchments?

Rimi, Shabiha Sultana: Simulating the fate and transport of microplastics in a river corridor (Rhine River)

Wang, Qiaoyu: Physically Constrained Storage Age Selection (SAS) Functions: Benchmarking SAS-based Simulations of Catchment Nitrate Export

Further conference contributions

New Publications

Ebeling, P., Hubig, A., Wachholz, A., Scharfenberger, U., Haug, S., Nguyen, V.T., Sarrazin, F., Batool, M., Musolff, A., Kumar, R. (2026):
QUADICA v2: extending the large-sample data set for water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes in Germany
Earth Syst. Sci. Data

Duong, T.D., Tran, V.N., Nguyen, V.T. (2026):
Near-real-time statistical analysis and visualization of streamflow from a deep-learning rainfall-runoff model
Water Resour. Manag.

Nguyen, V.T., Musolff, A., Ebeling, P., Sarrazin, F.J., Fleckenstein, J.H., Attinger, S., Kumar, R. (2026):
Long-term assessment of point source contributions to nitrate pollution in the Central European Rhine and Elbe river basins
Environ. Res. Lett.

Lei, C., Basso, S., Cohen, M.J., Musolff, A., Tarasova, L., Schmidt, C. (2026):
Discharge-based classifications of spatio-temporal patterns of potentially gaining and losing subcatchments in the Bode River catchment, Central Germany
J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud.

Further publications

HDG Seminar

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Contact

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Jette Wüst
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jette.wuest@ufz.de

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